With these words, given in the context by Christ Himself, He rids the world of the false view of the nature of Christ’s resurrected body as being some mystical “spiritual resurrection.” Yet there are those false cults and “isms” that maintain the heresy of a “spiritual resurrection” of Christ. With clear words Jesus instructed His disciples to view His hands and His feet, and even to touch Him, and to see that He had a real physical body and not a spiritual body that could not be touched. He had a body, much like what we will have.Ī passage that gives a clear description of Christ’s resurrected body is found in Luke 24:39, as He appeared unto the disciples: “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.” In this passage, Jesus draws attention to His completely physical and yet glorified body. Jesus wasn’t a spirit walking around after his resurrection. It will be in all points perfect, as the Lord Jesus Christ’s body is also perfect. It will be a body that is not subject to disease and death any longer. These verses tell us that those who die, having trusted Christ as personal Savior, will be given bodies like that of the Lord Jesus Christ. As he wrote in Philippians 3:21, “Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.” This change was also mentioned by the apostle John in I John 3:2, “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him we shall see him as he is.” The apostle Paul gives detail as to what is involved in this change. This passage of Scripture is actually a statement of a principle, that being the fact that a change is mandatory if the believer is to realize the promised blessings awaiting him in Heaven and the resurrection (LIBERTY BIBLE COMMENTARY, Vol.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality (I Corinthians 15:50-53). Behold, I shew you a mystery he shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Now, this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. There are several Scriptures that present insight into the answer to the question of the nature of the resurrected body: The question is often asked concerning just what is the nature of the body Christians will receive at the resurrection.

Images of heavenly bodies