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The really good question is why did she think he was a gardener?
And why was Jesus gardening?
Translation difficulties and the miracle have perpetuated this confusion...
I answered...and I thought that you would have understood it...He was completely physically here.Does anyone have an answer for me?
A bodily resurrection.One of the gospels has Jesus telling Mary not to touch him as he has not yet risen. Another gospel has Thomas touching him. When he died was a resurrected as a spirit or did his flesh come back to life like Lazarus?
By reading John 20:11-31, but the answer to your question is in verseOne of the gospels has Jesus telling Mary not to touch him as he has not yet risen. Another gospel has Thomas touching him. When he died was a resurrected as a spirit or did his flesh come back to life like Lazarus?
One of the gospels has Jesus telling Mary not to touch him as he has not yet risen. Another gospel has Thomas touching him. When he died was a resurrected as a spirit or did his flesh come back to life like Lazarus?
It's a Jewish writing style. If you were Jewish, you would know John was pointing back to creation where Adam was a living soul who brought death into the world.The really good question is why did she think he was a gardener?
And why was Jesus gardening?
Well... what you said is true...but real world is that he was gardening...seen him doing gardening things....man and Earth living in symbiosis... needing each other like in the Garden in Eden.It's a Jewish writing style. If you were Jewish, you would know John was pointing back to creation where Adam was a living soul who brought death into the world.
However, we are new creatures in Christ and Christ brings life through the resurrection.
I must add this. The garden was a place where all of creation was in harmony and God walked amongst them which was forshadowed in the Tabernacle with Moses and later through the temple. Outside of Eden chaos ensued and it was the first people of God who's task it was to expand Eden. As Christians, we share that same harmony with creation and with God, and our task is also to expand Eden.
I was editing my post as you were posting lol!Well... what you said is true...but real world is that he was gardening...seen him doing gardening things....man and Earth living in symbiosis... needing each other like in the Garden in Eden.
I'd be glad to try to point out some scripture, but I am not sure what you mean by "this."If it wasn't a bodily resurrection then one,.. nobody would be able to touch Him and two,.. then He wouldn't be the Son of God as that would mean He would have died just like the rest of us. It even says that He ascended into Heaven being in His body form. Can somebody please help me in finding the Bible verse or verses that talk about this?
Nailed it!a -big- part of Christianity is the understanding that Our Lord humbled Himself and became Fully Flesh (100%) and Fully Divine (100%), at the same time, for a purpose set out by God.