Where is Christ's Body?

[Tobael]

This is just a question that I have wondered about. I don't have the answer, just asking if anyone has an opinion.

I am speaking of His resurrected body, the one that Thomas touched so that he could know for sure that Jesus had physically risen from the dead. I suppose I could also mention Elijah and Enoch, who both acended to heaven in the body. If I wanted to be controversial I could even mention Mary, but that's another issue.

If it was a physical body, it must occupy space. Or am I mistaken?

Tobael.

 

[kwag_myers]

Hebrews 12:2, He's sitting at the right hand of God.

 

[AHIMSA]

So God literally has hands? Is he ocated somewhere in the clouds?

 

[Tobael]

The right hand of God is fugurative language. God is Spirit. Just like this:

ISA 66:1 Thus says Yahweh :With heaven my throne and earth my footstool, what house could you build me, what place could you make for my rest?

It doesn't mean that God literally rests His feet on the earth.

 

[Free]

I believe that Jesus is still in body as the God-man and forever will be.

 

[Tobael]

I believe that Jesus is still in body as the God-man and forever will be.

So do I, Free. It's just curiosity that makes me wonder where His physical body is. On the one hand, His body was solid enough to be touched:

John 20:27 Then he spoke to Thomas, 'Put your finger here; look, here are my hands. Give me your hand; put it into my side. Doubt no longer but believe.'

but on the other, He could walk through doors:

John 20:26 Eight days later the disciples were in the house again and Thomas was with them. The doors were closed, but Jesus came in and stood among them. 'Peace be with you' he said.

Paul says:

1 Corinthians 15:42-44 It is the same with the resurrection of the dead: the thing that is sown is perishable but what is raised is imperishable; the thing that is sown is contemptible but what is raised is glorious; the thing that is sown is weak but what is raised is powerful; when it is sown it embodies the soul, when it is raised it embodies the spirit. If the soul has its own embodiment, so does the spirit have its own embodiment.

So, there is obviously a difference between the earthly perishable body and the heavenly imperishable body. Maybe the heavenly body transcends the physical universe and enters a higher dimension. Maybe it isn't constrained by our universe to the point of not needing to take up space. We will never know this side of eternity.

 

[kwag_myers]

The right hand of God is fugurative language.

It's my understanding of ancient Hebrew culture that to sit at one's right hand is a place of highest honor. Besides, where else would Jesus be. He's been to hell and back, and the work that is being done here on earth is the job of the Holy Spirit.

 

[Tobael]

The right hand of God is fugurative language.

It's my understanding of ancient Hebrew culture that to sit at one's right hand is a place of highest honor. Besides, where else would Jesus be. He's been to hell and back, and the work that is being done here on earth is the job of the Holy Spirit.

I am not denying that He is at God's right hand. But, actually, all three members of the Trinity are at work here on earth: Father, Son and Holy Spirit work inseparably.

 

[Blazin Bones]

Where are you going with this?

 

[Tobael]

Where are you going with this?

I don't have an agenda in the sense of trying to prove anything. You could call it idle speculation.

Maybe it is more of a scientific question, regarding the form that resurrected bodies have in the physical universe. I see it as an interesting question that's all.

 

[James1979]

Free,

I agree as well because God had obligated himself to take on a nature like us sinners and was brought up back to heaven in the same body when Jesus resurrected. Also in the word says that we shall be like him, which our present bodies will be spiritually glorified just as the same body that Christ took on earth. Before Christ came down on earth, Christ had no body or shape of form, just the invisible spirit form of God.

 

[supernac]

Free,

I agree as well because God had obligated himself to take on a nature like us sinners and was brought up back to heaven in the same body when Jesus resurrected. Also in the word says that we shall be like him, which our present bodies will be spiritually glorified just as the same body that Christ took on earth. Before Christ came down on earth, Christ had no body or shape of form, just the invisible spirit form of God.

How do you explain God walking with Abraham with the two angles?
How do you explain God talking to Adam, meeting with Moses?
I personally belive that it was Jesus (filled with God) that did these things.

God is One

Isa 9:6

For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, [a] Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

 

[James1979]

supernac,

I agree with you. God had taken on a form of a man in the old testament, once God was completed doing what he had to do with these indiviuals, then he disappeared. Then once Jesus actually came on earth it was the real deal, no disappearing like God did in the old testament and continue on his business. I believe God did this to show that this will be his body like ours but in a glorified spiritual one. Plus God couldn't show himself fully all in his glory because remember God says in his word that no man can see God and live.

 

[Cameron]

I am speaking of His resurrected body

1Co 15:35 But someone will say, How can the dead be raised? With what [kind of] body will they come forth?
1Co 15:36 You foolish man! Every time you plant seed, you sow something that does not come to life [germinating, springing up, and growing] unless it dies first.
1Co 15:37 Nor is the seed you sow then the body which it is going to have [later], but it is a naked kernel, perhaps of wheat or some of the rest of the grains.
1Co 15:38 But God gives to it the body that He plans and sees fit, and to each kind of seed a body of its own. [Gen. 1:11.]
1Co 15:39 For all flesh is not the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for beasts, another for birds, and another for fish.
1Co 15:40 There are heavenly bodies (sun, moon, and stars) and there are earthly bodies (men, animals, and plants), but the beauty and glory of the heavenly bodies is of one kind, while the beauty and glory of earthly bodies is a different kind.
1Co 15:41 The sun is glorious in one way, the moon is glorious in another way, and the stars are glorious in their own [distinctive] way; for one star differs from and surpasses another in its beauty and brilliance.
1Co 15:42 So it is with the resurrection of the dead. [The body] that is sown is perishable and decays, but [the body] that is resurrected is imperishable (immune to decay, immortal). [Dan. 12:3.]
1Co 15:43 It is sown in dishonor and humiliation; it is raised in honor and glory. It is sown in infirmity and weakness; it is resurrected in strength and endued with power.
1Co 15:44 It is sown a natural (physical) body; it is raised a supernatural (a spiritual) body. [As surely as] there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45 Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life]. [Gen. 2:7.]
1Co 15:46 But it is not the spiritual life which came first, but the physical and then the spiritual.
1Co 15:47 The first man [was] from out of earth, made of dust (earthly-minded); the second Man [is] the Lord from out of heaven. [Gen. 2:7.]
1Co 15:48 Now those who are made of the dust are like him who was first made of the dust (earthly-minded); and as is [the Man] from heaven, so also [are those] who are of heaven (heavenly-minded).
1Co 15:49 And just as we have borne the image [of the man] of dust, so shall we and so let us also bear the image [of the Man] of heaven.
1Co 15:50 But I tell you this, brethren, flesh and blood cannot [become partakers of eternal salvation and] inherit or share in the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable (that which is decaying) inherit or share in the imperishable (the immortal).