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You added the word " physical ", scripture doesn't say that.
Clearly I put flesh an bones in quotation marks. Physicality is the obvious context of the passage however, scripture does indeed say that Christ, presently, has a physical body.
Col 2:9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;
"hoti en auto katoikei pan to pleroma tes theotetos somatikos,"
The word translated as bodily means a physical body. The purpose of Colossians is to refute those proto-gnostic mystics that were denying that Christ was fully God and fully Man.
"The Greek is very strong here. One could translate, “For in Him corporeally there is permanently at home all the fulness of the Godhead.” That is, in our Lord Jesus in His incarnation and in the permanent possession of His human body now glorified, there resides by nature and permanently the fulness of the Godhead." (Kenneth Wuest)
"..the very Deity of God, that which makes God God, in all its completeness, has its permanent home in Our Lord, and that in a “bodily fashion,” that is, it is in Him clothed with a body. He who looks upon Jesus Christ see, no doubt, a body and a man; but as he sees the man clothed with the body, so he sees God Himself, in all the fulness of His Deity, clothed with the humanity." (B.B. Warfield)
<<<"His resurrected body had the appearance and feel of his physical body and could also partake of food, BUT, is was a " glorified body.">>>
The point I am trying to make is that Christ's glorified body is indeed physical. It did not just appear of feel physical it was and still is, the same body that was nailed to the cross. Yes it was transformed into a glorious body but it is still physical.
I really would like to move on from this but you are using Christian language, but pouring a Pagan meaning into it. I really think it behooves you to take ten minutes and read the Geisler article.
Here again is the link...
equip.org
If you have a similarly pertinent article I would be willing to read that.
Greg |
