Jehovah's Witnesses DENY the Physical Bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ

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  cofty

  Christians will never say anything about what a 'spiritual' or 'glorified' body is.

  On the one hand they insist that he still has his resurrected physical body but as soon as you explore the implications of that they retreat into sophistry.

  If Jesus body consists of flesh and bones, as Vander says, then we can't avoid the fact that flesh is sustained by a process of cellular respiration. Oxygen and glycogen is carried to the cells by blood. Glycogen is broken down into ATP molecules which fuels the cell's activity.

  If there is glycogen there is food. If there is food there is digestion. If there is digestion there is defecation.

  If the christian wants to avoid the spectre of a god who takes time out his busy day to go to the toilet he needs to assert that a 'spiritual' or 'glorified' body is somehow different in some unspecified way. But consider how different.

  If a body does not require cellular respiration fuelled by ATP then it has no use for - lungs, a heart, a vascular system, kidneys, a bladder or a penis, an esophagus, a stomach, an intestinal tract including large bowel, small bowel, rectum or anus, a liver, a gallbladder or bone marrow.

  More than that he would not need any of the DNA associated with all of these parts or the parts of the brain that control them. Even at a cellular level his body would be unrecognisable compared with a human body and would be absent of mitochondria.

  So tell me again please. How exactly can you claim that Jesus retained his human body?
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  Steel

  At the end the 1000 year reign of Christ all the Christians leave the third heaven and return to a new heaven and new earth in an new body that can’t be destroyed . Perfect body , perfectly health.

  That what my church teaches.
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  Fadeaway1962

  Philippians 3:20-21 "lord Jesus Christ who will transform our humble body to be like his glorious body"

  So the billions of those that have exercised faith in Jesus that have died , do they also have a physical body in heaven also?
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  vienne

  Joen,

  It would help if you could back up your belief with explicit scriptural argument. You've given us your feelings and belief, but no scriptural proof.
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  Doctor Who

  Reminds me of 1Kings 18:27 "And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”
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  Jehalapeno

  Maybe the 7 bowls in revelation weren't bowls, but bowels instead.
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  Finkelstein

  I wonder what a fart smells like in heaven or does it even smell at all since those up there are perfect . ???
  
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  JoenB75

  vienne,

  Glorified incorruptible body is in the Bible. I suggest such a body does not have our biological functions and limitations. Such a body can not die of starvation so I doubt it needs food, But I dont think poop is bad or naughty like some atheists here. Essentially the Cross which includes the true humanity (after resurrection this was glorified) of Jesus, is foolishness to the Greeks. I am sure Jesus pooooopped pre ressurection and that is freaking amazing as Jesus joined blood with the human race
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  Fadeaway1962

  If so amazing where's the proof?
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  Rattigan350

  Yes, this is nothing new.

  Jesus was not resurrected in his body. That was a sacrifice. If he were resurrected in it, the sacrifice would not be one.

  And he did not ascend in a physical body otherwise what would he breath, or eat. How could he see or hear.

  He was a spirit before he became a man. He was a man until he died. He was no longer a man after he was resurrected and returned to what he was prior.