We see from the scriptures that Jesus Christ is literally the Son of God with about 50 references in the New Testament as I remember. He is called and referred to scripturally as the Son of Man also with even more scriptural references than the Son of God. Regarding God His Father, I see a perfect relationship between Jesus Christ, the Son and God the Father. God and His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, who always did the will of the Father and is now at the right hand of God making intercession for the saints is our connection to God. We have only been adopted as children of God, while Jesus Christ is the only begotten, by actual physical birth, Son of God. Without our relationship with Jesus Christ our relationship with God His Father would be limited or non-existent. God and Jesus Christ are perfectly in harmony with Jesus Christ always doing the will of His Father God and God has delegated all authority to His Son for our age as it pertains to the church and the salvation of mankind. Finally according to 1 Corinthians chapter 15, when God and Jesus Christ meet their goal of God being all in all, then Jesus Christ gives that authority back to God his Father.
1 Corinthians chapter 15 is the best chapter in the bible that I see as describing the new body that Christ has which we will also get in the future. I recommend reading this chapter and studying it. I will be writing a bible commentary on this chapter this summer as I have already written commentaries on chapters 12, 13 and 14. 1 Corinthians 15 does differentiate the different body types. This chapter now says Jesus has a spiritual body. We will get this spiritual body type in the future also.
The Resurrection Body
1 Corinthians 15
35 But someone may ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?" 36 How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38 But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. 39 All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. 40 There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. 41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor. 42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven. 50 I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-- 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." 55 "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
BODY, SPIRITUAL
The body of a person after its resurrection and glorification, no longer subject to sin, disease, and death. After His resurrection, Jesus was not a ghost or a spirit; he was able to eat "a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb" (Luke 24:42). And yet Jesus' body already had certain spiritual qualities. Even before His ascension He was able to enter a room where His disciples were assembled, although the doors were shut (John 20:19).
The apostle Paul specifically mentions the "spiritual body" in his first epistle to the Corinthians (1 Cor 15:42-44). Paul made it clear that the spiritual body is not subject to sin or death. Paul encouraged believers to hold fast to their faith in Christ, who will give them their spiritual body in the life to come.
With Jesus’ ascension to the right hand of God, Jesus is doing greater spiritual things now than he did right after His resurrection. This is true even though his body may not have changed. However, it looks like Jesus has spiritual body options for how his body performs and this depends on what He needs to do. This is an interesting subject to analyze. Here is another biblical study on this, which looks scriptural and truthful.
BODY, SPIRITUAL
(spir'-it-u-al): Paul describes the body after the resurrection as a spiritual body (soma psuchikon) and contrasts it with the natural (psychical body, soma pneumatikon, 1 Cor 15:44). Our present natural body has for its life-principle the soul (psuche) but the resurrection body is adapted and subordinated to the spirit (pneuma). See PSYCHOLOGY. The apostle does not argue for a literal and material identity of that future body with the present one, but thinks of it as the counterpart of the present animal organism so conditioned as to be adapted to a state of existence which lies wholly within the sphere of the spirit. Against his Corinthian readers he argues that the resurrection cannot be succeeded by a state of non-existence, nor is he willing to admit a mere etherealized state. There must be a body, but between it and our present body there is a similar difference to that between the first and second Adam.
The present body and the first Adam were alike dominated by the soul (psuche); but as the second Adam became a life-giving spirit, so will the resurrection body be a spiritual one. Christ became a life-giving spirit through the resurrection (Meyer on 1 Cor 15:45); and since we are to bear His image (verse 49), it becomes evident that Christ's resurrection-body is the nearest possible approach to a sensible representation of the spiritual body. For this Paul argues more directly when he affirms that our resurrection-body shall be transformed according to the body of His glory (Phil 3:21; compare 1 John 3:2). The body of Christ after the resurrection was conformed in many respects to the body of His earthly life, yet with some marked differences. He ate (Luke 24:42-43); He breathed (John 20:22); possessed flesh and bones (Luke 24:39), and could be apprehended by the bodily senses (Luke 24:40; John 20:27). His body possessed characteristics which differentiated it entirely from the popular fancy of ghosts or apparitions (Luke 24:36-43). Yet His body was superior to the usual barriers which restrict human movements. Barred doors and distances did not impede His going (John 20:19-26; Luke 24:31-36). The context shows that the purpose of His eating was to convince the disciples that it was really He (Luke 24:41-43), and not to sustain life which His body was probably capable of maintaining in other ways. John speaks of His appearances after His resurrection as "manifestations" (John 21:1-21). A change in His person and appearance had certainly taken place, for those who knew Him best did not at once recognize Him (Luke 24:16; John 20:14). It is evident therefore that the post-resurrection-body of Jesus was one that had the power of materializing itself to natural senses, or withdrawing itself at will. It was this same body which was taken into the heavens at the ascension, and which remains in heaven (Acts 1:11; 3:21). There is no hint that it underwent any change in its removal from earth. Hence, the spiritual body of which Paul speaks is not to be unlike the body which Jesus possessed after His resurrection. There is to be an absence of the desires and passions which belong naturally to the present bodily existence (Matt 22:30; Luke 20:35-36).
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Steve Lortz
Thank you for posting that, Mark!
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We see from the scriptures that Jesus Christ is literally the Son of God with about 50 references in the New Testament as I remember. He is called and referred to scripturally as the Son of Man also with even more scriptural references than the Son of God. Regarding God His Father, I see a perfect relationship between Jesus Christ, the Son and God the Father. God and His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, who always did the will of the Father and is now at the right hand of God making intercession for the saints is our connection to God. We have only been adopted as children of God, while Jesus Christ is the only begotten, by actual physical birth, Son of God. Without our relationship with Jesus Christ our relationship with God His Father would be limited or non-existent. God and Jesus Christ are perfectly in harmony with Jesus Christ always doing the will of His Father God and God has delegated all authority to His Son for our age as it pertains to the church and the salvation of mankind. Finally according to 1 Corinthians chapter 15, when God and Jesus Christ meet their goal of God being all in all, then Jesus Christ gives that authority back to God his Father.
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Can I ask - there are many references to Jesus or Christ sitting (or having sat) at the right hand of God.
Jesus was a physical male. With a physical, touchable body. He appeared after the resurrection as such.
Jesus now is ... ? Something physical and touchable,and something intangible?
God has no physical presence like Jesus had. God is spirit, breath, wind, something intangible.
And God fills the whole universe. Not even just our planetary system. Or galaxy. Fills all that can be seen and more than that, too.
If Jesus is sitting down somewhere - where is he sitting?
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1 Corinthians chapter 15 is the best chapter in the bible that I see as describing the new body that Christ has which we will also get in the future. I recommend reading this chapter and studying it. I will be writing a bible commentary on this chapter this summer as I have already written commentaries on chapters 12, 13 and 14. 1 Corinthians 15 does differentiate the different body types. This chapter now says Jesus has a spiritual body. We will get this spiritual body type in the future also.
The Resurrection Body
1 Corinthians 15
35 But someone may ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?" 36 How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38 But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. 39 All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. 40 There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. 41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor. 42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven. 50 I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-- 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." 55 "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
BODY, SPIRITUAL
The body of a person after its resurrection and glorification, no longer subject to sin, disease, and death. After His resurrection, Jesus was not a ghost or a spirit; he was able to eat "a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb" (Luke 24:42). And yet Jesus' body already had certain spiritual qualities. Even before His ascension He was able to enter a room where His disciples were assembled, although the doors were shut (John 20:19).
The apostle Paul specifically mentions the "spiritual body" in his first epistle to the Corinthians (1 Cor 15:42-44). Paul made it clear that the spiritual body is not subject to sin or death. Paul encouraged believers to hold fast to their faith in Christ, who will give them their spiritual body in the life to come.
(from Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Copyright ©1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers)
With Jesus’ ascension to the right hand of God, Jesus is doing greater spiritual things now than he did right after His resurrection. This is true even though his body may not have changed. However, it looks like Jesus has spiritual body options for how his body performs and this depends on what He needs to do. This is an interesting subject to analyze. Here is another biblical study on this, which looks scriptural and truthful.
BODY, SPIRITUAL
(spir'-it-u-al): Paul describes the body after the resurrection as a spiritual body (soma psuchikon) and contrasts it with the natural (psychical body, soma pneumatikon, 1 Cor 15:44). Our present natural body has for its life-principle the soul (psuche) but the resurrection body is adapted and subordinated to the spirit (pneuma). See PSYCHOLOGY. The apostle does not argue for a literal and material identity of that future body with the present one, but thinks of it as the counterpart of the present animal organism so conditioned as to be adapted to a state of existence which lies wholly within the sphere of the spirit. Against his Corinthian readers he argues that the resurrection cannot be succeeded by a state of non-existence, nor is he willing to admit a mere etherealized state. There must be a body, but between it and our present body there is a similar difference to that between the first and second Adam.
The present body and the first Adam were alike dominated by the soul (psuche); but as the second Adam became a life-giving spirit, so will the resurrection body be a spiritual one. Christ became a life-giving spirit through the resurrection (Meyer on 1 Cor 15:45); and since we are to bear His image (verse 49), it becomes evident that Christ's resurrection-body is the nearest possible approach to a sensible representation of the spiritual body. For this Paul argues more directly when he affirms that our resurrection-body shall be transformed according to the body of His glory (Phil 3:21; compare 1 John 3:2). The body of Christ after the resurrection was conformed in many respects to the body of His earthly life, yet with some marked differences. He ate (Luke 24:42-43); He breathed (John 20:22); possessed flesh and bones (Luke 24:39), and could be apprehended by the bodily senses (Luke 24:40; John 20:27). His body possessed characteristics which differentiated it entirely from the popular fancy of ghosts or apparitions (Luke 24:36-43). Yet His body was superior to the usual barriers which restrict human movements. Barred doors and distances did not impede His going (John 20:19-26; Luke 24:31-36). The context shows that the purpose of His eating was to convince the disciples that it was really He (Luke 24:41-43), and not to sustain life which His body was probably capable of maintaining in other ways. John speaks of His appearances after His resurrection as "manifestations" (John 21:1-21). A change in His person and appearance had certainly taken place, for those who knew Him best did not at once recognize Him (Luke 24:16; John 20:14). It is evident therefore that the post-resurrection-body of Jesus was one that had the power of materializing itself to natural senses, or withdrawing itself at will. It was this same body which was taken into the heavens at the ascension, and which remains in heaven (Acts 1:11; 3:21). There is no hint that it underwent any change in its removal from earth. Hence, the spiritual body of which Paul speaks is not to be unlike the body which Jesus possessed after His resurrection. There is to be an absence of the desires and passions which belong naturally to the present bodily existence (Matt 22:30; Luke 20:35-36).
William Charles Morro
(from International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia, Electronic Database Copyright ©1996 by Biblesoft)
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