Brian2
Veteran Member
Sounds like you've been talking to the wrong people.
That the body of Jesus was in state in heaven is an idea that some JWs had. I don't know if was an official teaching. It is not scriptural after all. Now it seems that the teaching is that the body was disposed of in some way. But of course that is not scriptural either.
What is scriptural is:
John 2:19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
Matt 28:6 He is not here; He has risen, just as He said! Come, see the place where He lay.
Luke 24:39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
I thought as much. So you do think that Jesus gave up a life, which he received... as though it is a garment.
I think that Jesus became a man and died as a man and came to life as a man with an immortal and imperishable body,,,,,,,,,,,a spiritual body.
When a person is resurrected to everlasting life, how does he get it? The Bible explains, but I want to hear you explain it.
Jesus is not just any person, He is the sinless person, the one whom death had no hold over.
Acts 2:24 But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.
Jesus broke the curse of death that had a hold on mankind for us and gives us His eternal life. In that way He is our Eternal Father. (Isa 9:6)
Isa 53:10 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
This is not scriptural, Brian.
(1 Corinthians 15:42-44) 42 So it is with the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised up in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised up in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised up in power. 44 It is sown a physical body; it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one.
(1 Peter 3:18)
To claim that Jesus was raise with the corruptible body he died with, is to declare the scriptures to be lies.
I do not say that Jesus was raised with a corruptible body, you do not listen to what I say.
The scripture you quote (1Cor 15:42-44) tells us that the body that is sown will die, but will be resurrected also, but incorruptible. It is sown in dishonour but raised in glory. It is sown in weakness but raised in power. It is sown a physical body but raised up a spiritual body.
The same body is raised as a spiritual body, not as a spirit.
We can see what that means partially by noticing the body of Jesus after it was raised.
1Peter 3:18 does not say that Jesus was raised as a spirit.