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Spirit Bodies
(From Forerunner Commentary)

Luke 24:36-40  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Consider the context and the time. He is resurrected, composed of Spirit. He is God. Does He indicate at all that being in the body is only a part-time experience for God? No, instead He teaches them that a spirit being's body is not vaporous like a ghost and that it is not composed of earthly flesh and bone. The implications are important in relation to other parts of the Bible. In this case, what He does not say is important because He wants them to answer in their own minds just the opposite of what they originally thought, "This is a ghost. It has no form or shape." Yes, He did have form and shape, and it was solid to the touch. They felt Him, and their hands did not pass through Him. He is saying that He has flesh and bones, but they are not physical. They are spirit flesh and bones. John W. Ritenbaugh Image and Likeness of God (Part 1)

1 Corinthians 15:47-48  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) In other words, even as all men follow the pattern of Adam, so will all those of the new creation follow the pattern of the second Adam, Christ, who was born again by a resurrection. John W. Ritenbaugh You Must Be Born Again!

1 Corinthians 15:47  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) This is what Jesus was saying to Nicodemus. He was of the earth, earthy—human. He was flesh, not spirit. He was born of the flesh, so that is what he was—flesh. When one is born of the Spirit, he will be spirit. Paul is here explaining the same truth. But we cannot be spirit in this present age. Herbert W. Armstrong (1892-1986) Life After Death?

1 Corinthians 15:51  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) At the second coming of Jesus Christ (I Thessalonians 4:13-16), all the dead in Christ will be raised with new spirit bodies; and those mortal Christians still alive at His return will be instantly changed into the same kind of spirit bodies—bodies which can inherit the Kingdom of God. Our present flesh is corruptible, subject to death and decay. But spirit beings are eternally new—immortal, incorruptible, never subject to death and decay! Will You Go to Heaven?

 

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