Was Jesus ever really raised from the dead? Or did God zap His body into gas?
In the incarnation, God became a human being. His humanity was as genuine and authentic as every other human’s humanity. He had immaterial and material components to His existence. When God became man at the conception in Mary’s womb, He took upon Himself an existence that He would never relinquish. Jesus’ flesh was not merely a robe God clothed Himself in while on this earth, to be discarded when ascending to heaven. God’s existence as a genuine human being in the person of Jesus Christ will never be relinquished. Jesus still possesses His physical body, but now it is in glorified form, dwelling in heaven (Acts 13:34; Colossians 2:9; I Peter3:21-22).1 Some would have us to believe that when Jesus rose from the dead, He came back as a spirit, no longer having a physical, tangible body. To hold to this view, however, is to deny the testimony of Scripture, and to bypass the entire purpose of the resurrection. Acts 13:34-35, 37, based on Psalm 16:10, declares that Jesus’ body would not se
