Easter Outtakes

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● Acts 1:1-3 . . The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus
began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had by the
Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen. To these he also
presented himself alive, after his suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing
to them over a period of forty days.

Some of those "convincing proofs" were:

Jesus' resurrection retained indications of the injuries he received on the cross.
(John 20:27)

His resurrection was a physical form, i.e. it could be handled and it could be seen
with the naked eye. (Matt 28:8-9, Luke 24:39-40, John 20:27)

His resurrection experienced hunger, and was capable of dining upon ordinary
foods. (Luke 24:41-42)

A pretty large percentage of folks identifying themselves as Christians in our day
accept those proofs, but not all are in agreement as to the properties of his
resurrection.

Some insist Jesus' crucified dead body was restored to life as it was, while others
insist it was restored to life with miraculous improvements, and yet others insist
Jesus' crucified dead body wasn't restored to life at all, i.e. it's still dead; and his
remains are squirreled away somewhere on the earth in a condition, and a location,
known only to God. In other words, in some people's opinion: Jesus' resurrection
was in the form of a spirit being instead of a physical being.
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Jesus today has a so-called glorified body. (Phil 3:21) One of its outstanding
properties is immortality. (Rom 6:9, 1Tim 6:14-15, and Rev 1:18)

Now, although Jesus' body today is immortal, it's still capable of dining upon
ordinary foods and beverages; and will do so in the future. (Matt 26:29, Luke
22:15-16, Luke 22:28-30)

When Jesus' body underwent its miraculous upgrade to immortality, the process
didn't transform him into a different species of life, viz: Jesus today is still human.

● 1Tim 2:5 . . For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the
man Christ Jesus.

The Greek word translated "men" and "man" in that verse is anthropos (anth'-ro
pos) a very common word throughout the New Testament for identifying human
beings of either of the Bible's two genders, i.e. males and females.

So; there are at least four things about Jesus today that we can be certain:

1) He's alive

2) He's immortal

3) He's capable of dining upon ordinary foods and beverages and,

4) He's an h.sapiens, i.e. a human being.

There's a fifth: Jesus' gender. Throughout the Bible, beginning with Melchizedek in
the book of Genesis; high priests have always been males. God has never
appointed a woman to that position. In point of fact; God has never appointed
women to be priests of any kind let alone high priests.

Of Jesus it is said:

"For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants. For this reason he
had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a
merciful and faithful high priest in service to God" (Heb 2:15-17)

And:

"Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on
Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess." (Heb 3:1)

See also Heb 4:14-15, 5:1, 5:5, 5:10, 6:20, 7:26, 8:1, & 9:11
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Dant01 said:
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Jesus today has a so-called glorified body. (Phil 3:21) One of its outstanding
properties is immortality. (Rom 6:9, 1Tim 6:14-15, and Rev 1:18)

Now, although Jesus' body today is immortal, it's still capable of dining upon
ordinary foods and beverages; and will do so in the future. (Matt 26:29, Luke
22:15-16, Luke 22:28-30)

When Jesus' body underwent its miraculous upgrade to immortality, the process
didn't transform him into a different species of life, viz: Jesus today is still human.

● 1Tim 2:5 . . For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the
man Christ Jesus.

The Greek word translated "men" and "man" in that verse is anthropos (anth'-ro
pos) a very common word throughout the New Testament for identifying human
beings of either of the Bible's two genders, i.e. males and females.

So; there are at least four things about Jesus today that we can be certain:

1) He's alive

2) He's immortal

3) He's capable of dining upon ordinary foods and beverages and,

4) He's an h.sapiens, i.e. a human being.

There's a fifth: Jesus' gender. Throughout the Bible, beginning with Melchizedek in
the book of Genesis; high priests have always been males. God has never
appointed a woman to that position. In point of fact; God has never appointed
women to be priests of any kind let alone high priests.

Of Jesus it is said:

"For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants. For this reason he
had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a
merciful and faithful high priest in service to God" (Heb 2:15-17)

And:

"Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on
Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess." (Heb 3:1)

See also Heb 4:14-15, 5:1, 5:5, 5:10, 6:20, 7:26, 8:1, & 9:11
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If you will take note, Jesus is no longer with us, what remains is who he was in his God who sent him
 
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● 1Cor 15:35 . . How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they
come?

Everything that we know of in the cosmos-- all life, matter, and energy --is
composed of elements listed in the so-called periodic table. (There was a time when
every one of those elements were indigenous, but now several of them are
invasive, viz: man-made.)

Well; it seems reasonable to me that if God was intelligent enough, resourceful
enough, and capable enough, to create the elements we know of, then it shouldn't
be too difficult for Him to create any number of elements that we don't know of. (I
think it safe to assume that the world above is quite a bit unlike our world below.)

● 1Cor 15:50 . . This I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s
kingdom, neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

(According to John 3:3-12, God's kingdom will be established on Earth.)

Now; if I am reading the 15th chapter of 1st Corinthians correctly, then verse 50
pertains to Adam, i.e. to the original chemistry of the human body. It's very
possible that Jesus' glorified body is composed of elements nobody has ever heard
of; so that instead of it transparent as thin air, it exists as heretofore unknown
material easily seen by the naked eye.

● Acts 1:11 . . Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus,
who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as
you have watched him go into heaven.

● 1John 3:2 . .We shall see him just as he is.

● Rev 1:7 . . Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even
those who pierced him.
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FAQ: Jesus' body was easy to restore to life because it was all in one place and still
intact. (Ps 16:8-10, Acts 2:25-32) How can a corpse be returned to life that's been
obliterated by a bomb, or eaten and digested by beasts, or cremated, or rotted
away due to lack of embalming?

REPLY: Not everyone sleeping in the dust per Dan 12:2 is doing so as a corpse. In
time, left to nature, everyone's body decomposes enough to disappear altogether.
But regardless of how someone's body is disposed, destroyed and/or disintegrated;
it can be rebuilt from scratch just as easily as Adam's body was built from scratch
in the beginning.

FAQ: Supposing some of the atoms that made my body go into making another
person's body after mine is dead and dissolved back to dust? How will God fully
restore both our bodies to life seeing as how He will have need of the atoms of each
of us to do so?

REPLY: The chemical constitution of the various natural atoms listed on the periodic
table are identical; it's not as if they're snowflakes; viz: if God needs some carbon
atoms to reconstruct your body, He could utilize carbon atoms from a Sequoia
cactus and they would work just fine without the slightest need for adjustment
because every carbon atom on earth is a precise duplicate of every other carbon
atom on earth; viz: all carbon atoms are just one kind of carbon atom, i.e. the
carbon atoms in your body are not unique.

So it isn't necessary for God to locate all your original carbon atoms in order to
reconstruct your original body; He just needs carbon atoms; and they are very
plentiful in nature: same with other kinds of atoms, e.g. iron, calcium, phosphorus,
sodium, magnesium, hydrogen, nitrogen, etc.
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FAQ: Was Jesus' crucified dead body resurrected in a glorified form, or as it was
before the cross?

REPLY: Jesus predicted his body would be restored-- he didn't predict it would be
replaced and/or improved. (John 2:18-22)

FAQ: But wasn't his resurrected body able to do things that his normal body never
did; like pass thru closed doors and to suddenly appear and disappear?

REPLY: If Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego could walk thru fire in a normal body,
then I should think it not all that difficult for Jesus to pass thru walls in a normal
body.

And if Philip could be instantly transported in a normal body, they for sure Jesus
could too.

The properties of one's body do not determine what God can do with it, or cannot
do, viz: when analyzing miracles, I suggest we avoid differentiating between the
possible and the impossible. (cf. Luke 1:34-37)
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Dant01 said:
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● 1Cor 15:35 . . How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they
come?

Everything that we know of in the cosmos-- all life, matter, and energy --is
composed of elements listed in the so-called periodic table. (There was a time when
every one of those elements were indigenous, but now several of them are
invasive, viz: man-made.)

Well; it seems reasonable to me that if God was intelligent enough, resourceful
enough, and capable enough, to create the elements we know of, then it shouldn't
be too difficult for Him to create any number of elements that we don't know of. (I
think it safe to assume that the world above is quite a bit unlike our world below.)

● 1Cor 15:50 . . This I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s
kingdom, neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

(According to John 3:3-12, God's kingdom will be established on Earth.)

Now; if I am reading the 15th chapter of 1st Corinthians correctly, then verse 50
pertains to Adam, i.e. to the original chemistry of the human body. It's very
possible that Jesus' glorified body is composed of elements nobody has ever heard
of; so that instead of it transparent as thin air, it exists as heretofore unknown
material easily seen by the naked eye.

● Acts 1:11 . . Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus,
who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as
you have watched him go into heaven.

● 1John 3:2 . .We shall see him just as he is.

● Rev 1:7 . . Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even
those who pierced him.
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Everyone is dead to Gods Spirit until they come to life in Him as Jesus did in Matt 3:16, resurrected from that dead state of spirituality. The physical body returns to dust but the spirit of remains in the hearts and minds of those who knew you. If people would take note, Jesus is no longer with us, what remains is what he said of himself and His God who resurrected him from the dead in Matt 3;16. We are no different from the same, dead until you come to life in the Father as Jesus did, Adam did in Gen 3:22, Abraham did, Moses did, 120 in an upper room did. Read Jesus ini Luke 17:20-21, it tells clearly how one is come to life in the Father of it.
 
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FAQ: Jesus' body was easy to restore to life because it was all in one place and still
intact. (Ps 16:8-10, Acts 2:25-32) How can a corpse be returned to life that's been
obliterated by a bomb, or eaten and digested by beasts, or cremated, or rotted away
due to lack of embalming?

REPLY: Not everyone sleeping in the dust per Dan 12:2 is doing so as a corpse. In
time, left to nature, everyone's body decomposes enough to disappear altogether. But
regardless of how someone's body is disposed, destroyed and/or disintegrated; it can
be rebuilt from scratch just as easily as Adam's body was built from scratch in the
beginning.

FAQ: Supposing some of the atoms that made my body go into making another
person's body after mine is dead and dissolved back to dust? How will God fully restore
both our bodies to life seeing as how He will have need of the atoms of each of us to do
so?

REPLY: The chemical constitution of the various natural atoms listed on the periodic
table are identical; it's not as if they're snowflakes; viz: if God needs some carbon atoms
to reconstruct your body, He could utilize carbon atoms from a Sequoia cactus and they
would work just fine without the slightest need for adjustment because every carbon
atom on earth is a precise duplicate of every other carbon atom on earth; viz: all carbon
atoms are just one kind of carbon atom, i.e. the carbon atoms in your body are not
unique.

So it isn't necessary for God to locate all your original carbon atoms in order to
reconstruct your original body; He just needs carbon atoms; and they are very plentiful
in nature: same with other kinds of atoms, e.g. iron, calcium, phosphorus, sodium,
magnesium, hydrogen, nitrogen, etc.
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