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You areoperating from an unproven assumption that Jesus' resurrected body could not dothings that His physical body could not do without it compromising the fact ofthe resurrection. I would argue that is sheer nonsense.
No, I’mobjecting specifically to an ethereal body. A docetic or Gnostic resurrection.
I’m also objecting to the glibassumption that we must ascribe certain dominical miracles to properties ofChrist’s body, rather than Christ’s omnipotence.
Christ’sresurrected body could not perish, it could not decay…
Thatwouldn’t be a case of what his body can or can’t do, but what can’t be done to his body. Different principle.
...it didnot require food.
Whyassume a glorified body doesn’t require food? Does the Bible say that? No.
Isuppose he doesn’t think a glorified body needs oxygen.
This ishow a physical resurrection dies the death of a thousand negations. Is hisbody still a biological organism? If so, why assume it doesn’t need food?
In fact, there are a number of radicaldifferences between Christ’s physical body and His resurrected body.
Thereare certainly important differences.
Christ’sphysical body walked on water. That defies the laws of gravity.
But isthat a property of his body? Could he walk on water because his body wasnaturally buoyant? Was his body made of cork or Styrofoam?
Thisconfuses what a body can do with what can be done with a body. Jesus could dothings with his body that we can’t, not because he had a custom-made Superherobody, but because he was (and is) omnipotent.
Keep inmind, too, that he could walk on water before the Resurrection. So did he haveone kind of custom-made, Superhero body before the Resurrection, and adifferent custom-made Superhero body after the Resurrection? Or is it a mistaketo attribute these abilities to his body?
Hisresurrected body ascended up into the sky.
Is thatbecause his body is lighter than air? Was his body a helium balloon, covered byskin?
For thatmatter, was Jesus unable to levitate before the Resurrection? If he wanted tolevitate before the Resurrection, would he be unable to do so?
What aboutJesus glowing in the dark at the Transfiguration? Is this because his body wasmade of zinc sulfide or strontium aluminate?
Thiswhole approach fails to distinguish what his body could do with what he coulddo with his body. As God Incarnate, Jesus didn’t need a special kind of body todo special things with his body. What that requires is not a special kind ofbody, but a special kind of power.
How didPhillip find himself in the desert?...Was not Phillip's experience just asmysterious? I would be willing to say that Phillip could equally be said tohave vanished.
And isthat a special property of Phillip’s body? If you did a body scan, would youdiscover something about the composition of his body, or a special internal organ,which enabled him to do that? Or is this something God did to Phillip?
This isan example of how some Christians unwittingly sabotage the integrity of theResurrection. They end up giving us a “body” that’s indistinguishable from anonbody.
HereI’ll add something I said to another commenter:
Let’sapproach it in reverse. What makes a body vulnerable to harm? What makes a bodydestructible? The fact that a body can be affected by external agents.Conversely, if a body is invulnerable or indestructible, that means it can’t beaffected by external agents.
But thatcomes at a cost. An invulnerable body is an insensate body. The senses must besensitive to function. The senses can’t sense unless they can be affected byoutside factors. Unless they can register or absorb stimuli.
Lightthat’s too bright hurts our eyes. Noise that’s too loud hurts our ears. Foodcan be too hot or spicy.
A quickway to temporarily disable a man is to kick him in the groin. In theory, thatpart of the male anatomy could be made impervious to pain or harm. However,that would totally desensitize the area in question, and most men would ratherremain vulnerable–for having a sensitive anatomy in that department has widelyreported fringe benefits.
Anembodied soul, a soul united to an invulnerable body, would be a mindimprisoned in a block of steel-reinforced concrete. A mind sealed away fromsensory perception. By making it impregnable to harm, one makes it impregnableto being on the receiving end of the physical world.
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