Yes, I know that verse, but for a start, obviously the different bodies they saw Him in post resurrection, were not the body He died in, nobody ever recognizes Him on first sight. So that tells us that the simple explanation of the word "raise" is not as simple as we think. Consider what you think Jesus meant by "raise" and see if that aligns with what the descriptions of Him post resurrection tell you.
So yes, His body was raised. But what does that mean and what scriptures explain it?
In 1 Corinthians Paul discusses this new body at length, explaining how different it is from the old body.
John says that no one has seen Jesus as He is. Therefore what they saw post resurrection is not Him as He is.
My best suggestion so far is that a resurrected body is created to live in the Spiritual world, but in order to let us know that He came back to life, He had to adopt some forms so He could speak to the disciples in a way they would understand.
Since we can not see the invisible spiritual world or the beings that populate it, there are most likely no words that can tell us what it is like. If you think about it, any description of heaven is metaphorical and the Father looks like an old man.
So true. A key to this resurrection is in 1 John 3, when one really does see Him as He is, ye shall be like Him.
Now if we look at Matt 3:16 this is exactly what 1 John 3 is saying. Jesus didnt know God nor His heaven until what? God manifested Himself in Jesus and saw God as He really is and became like Him and not before. compare the before and after that event in that mans life. It is the very same with us all if we are to be of the Father and His child as son or daughter, Jesus was His som just as we all are who has seen the very same as Jesus did in Matt 3:16.
It is the same revelation that Adam had in Gen 3:22, Abraham saw Him, Moses saw Him, 120 in an upper room saw Him as He is and all of these became like Him. Jesus described his change of mind as born again, born of Gods Spirit, or mind to know what He knows about who He is and who we are in Him.
With my discussions with many here do not believe Matt 3:16 and say Jesus didnt need to be born again, which obviously he did,. we can read it. These cant see the temper of mind Jesus received from God from lack in being born of God Spirit, born again, themselves.
When the natural power of vision, as Jesus did in Matt 3:16 became devoted to Gods Holy Spirit, Spirit is the mind and the condition of it, it becomes the power of perceiving Gods will and the whole life is kept in simplicity.
The great crisis comes spiritually when a person has to emerge a bit further on than the creed one has accepted just as the creed of the Jewish temple that Jesus creed to their laws and taught even from a young age. He emerged from the laws of and conformed by obedience into the image of God starting in Matt 3:16 and until then he was teacher of their laws.
Ironic is when Jesus was born again, the very ones who reverend him as a great Rabbi even from young, are the very ones who had him crucified for blaspheme, a sinner against their belief system. And it is the very same scenario as we have in the creeds of denominations today. When one sees Him as He is and becomes like Him one can no longer sit in the pews for law. How many life changing sermons from a pulpit can one endure anyway. Actually denominations are not much more than establishments for enterprise. They want to hold you in the grip of their pews for that very reason just as they didnt want Jesus to be rejected out from those and tri3ed to silence him through death, which actually backfired for them. For everyone who has seen Him as Jesus did can no longer be of their laws to govern their creeds for a god.
I have seen Him as He is for the Spirit that God is does not have flesh and bone as you see me, Jesus was very clear in that with Thomas. Put your finger in his hands and side is not physical, I see it through Spirit. I cant physically put my finger in the holes in his body, but I can put my finger in those holes spiritually.
