JESUS - SPIRIT ?

JESUS - THE SPIRIT!   After the Resurrection   by Keith Hunt Some want to claim that the NT does NOT speak of Jesus, after His resurrection as a "spirit being" - somehow, and for some strange reason to me anyway, they just detest the thought that Jesus is a "spirit being" now in His glorification. They do not seem to be able to see that in eternity, in immortality, spirit and matter as the same BUT only in different forms. Maybe they can see that water, and the atoms that form water, can be in two other different form. They can be in VAPOR and also in SOLID, as well as water itself, which is in LIQUID form. They can admit this no doubt for it is a part of our life, our dimension, here on earth as physical creatures. But trying to get these people to see that Jesus' physical body was resurrected to eternal immortality form and that, that form can be in two forms - invisible (to the human eye) spirit form (still having form and shape) and also if willed, be flesh and bone, so human kind can see and touch and handle that form.....well to try and get them to see this truth, as clearly demonstrated by Jesus AFTER His resurrection, in being able to vanish and disappear, and appear in front of people behind closed doors (needing no door to be opened to walk through), as is recorded in the last chapter or so of each Gospel, is pretty well impossible. They just do not admit what the clear words of the Gospel writers said on the subject. And it seems they will not BELIEVE what Jesus said about God Himself in John 4: 24, "God is A SPIRIT!" It is clear from Jesus (then a lot of what Jesus said people simply do NOT believe, and certainly they do not PRACTICE much of what Jesus said to practice) that God is MAINLY in the FORM of SPIRIT. God has a body, He has passions, He has a mind. All of this I've proved in-depth in other studies. But God lives MAINLY in a DIFFERENT DIMENSION from us physical humans. He lives in a SPIRIT dimension. A world of creatures and "things" (such as a heavenly Jerusalem, rivers, trees, etc.) that are made of eternal SPIRIT. God CAN if He wills it, transform His "spirit" material (I use the word material for lack of a better word to convey the thought I'm expressing to our human minds) INTO PHYSICAL MATTER. He can make Himself FLESH AND BONE, and appear to mankind, as such, letting mankind touch Him. He can eat meals with people, as Jesus did after His resurrection, and as God did in the OT days with various people. God can take whatever it is that is called "spirit" in the Bible and again for lack of better words, take those spirit atoms and transform them into physical atoms and make Himself flesh and bone as we know those physical atoms. But again the flesh and bones atoms that God then is, are immortal atoms, not subject to decay or corruption, or pain, or physical hurt, as our physical atoms in mortal mankind are. In spite of all this, some just will not admit that God (and Jesus is God, the NT calls Him that, if you want to look it up in a Concordance, such as Strong's) is SPIRIT, that is when not appearing to humans as flesh and bone, He is made of SPIRIT. He is a SPIRIT BEING if you want to put it in plain clear words. But some, as I've said, just seem to HATE God being called by anyone, a Spirit Being. They try to tell you that the NT never describes God (and we include Jesus for He is also God) as SPIRIT or as a Spirit Being. We show them 1 Cor. 15 and verses 42 to 45. They maybe have a way to get around such plain easy to understand words from the inspired Paul. Maybe they have a fancy way to get around that Jesus, the second Adam was made A QUICKENING SPIRIT! But I maintain the words mean what they say and say what they mean. Paul was saying what he meant and meant what he was saying, and why not, for Jesus had said already that God was A SPIRIT! Well I want you to mark in bold yellow the verses I'm going to show you. Turn to Romans chapter 8. Read verse 26. Ah, don't be too quick to think this is the Holy Spirit that Paul is talking about by using the words "THE SPIRIT." Notice the last part of the verse. The SPIRIT makes INTERCESSION for us WITH GROANINGS WHICH CANNOT BE UTTERED (a heavenly voice language).Then, before you jump off thinking this is the Holy Spirit, notice verse 27. HE, the SPIRIT, makes INTERCESSION for the saints!!! Now, let the Bible interpret the Bible. Let Paul interpret Paul. Turn to 2 Timothy chapter two and read verse FIVE! There is according to Paul ONLY ONE INTERCESSOR for the saints, between mankind and God....ONLY JESUS is the intercessor! Then if you want CONTEXT proof, turn back to Romans 8 and read verse 34. It is CHRIST that makes INTERCESSION FOR US!! In verse 26 and 27, Christ, the intercessor for the saints.....is called.....THE SPIRIT!! And of course why not? Why should it seem practically like blasphemy to SOME (who hold a strange one eyed, cockeyed, theology about what Jesus was AFTER His resurrection), to think or BELIEVE that Christ was SPIRIT after His resurrection, that His physical body took on a CHANGE ( 1 Cor. 15 again) from mortal to immortal, from human to divine, and that He once more became GOD, as He was before, when WITH God (John chapter one). Why should it be a strange thing to some to believe Jesus was back into BEING Spirit once more, like God, for Jesus had said that God was A SPIRIT! That is God is SPIRIT when NOT willing Himself to be flesh and bone and to walk and talk, eat meals with, and even let man touch Him. Strange indeed is the working of the human mind that will not read and believe ALL the Scripture. Then again, it is as Jesus said, only those who are God's that will hear and believe His words. ............................. Written February 2003