I am seriously wondering about your sincerity Robert.
I did not bring up the word "dissolved". In fact you did by telling me to "consider very carefully"
"For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Are you reading your own posts before sending them?
JW's do in fact teach that Christ's body was dissolved they do that not because of any biblical warrant, but purely because they have to make the bible line up with their false teaching about the return of Christ. This is exactly what you are doing, so the question is perfectly legitimate.
Luke 24:36-43 speaks clearly about the physicality of the resurrected, glorified, Christ;
"While they were telling these things, He Himself stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be to you."
But they were startled and frightened and thought that they were seeing a spirit. And He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?
" See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; touch Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have." And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet.
While they still could not believe it because of their joy and amazement, He said to them, " Have you anything here to eat?" They gave Him a piece of a broiled fish;
and He took it and ate it before them."
Was Christ lying to His disciples when he said he had a physical body of "flesh and bones"? Apparently it was more than visible, it was physical as well.
Greg |
