Christ's Body Before the Resurrection

[ColoradoCatholic]

Hey Guys,

Was having a discussion about the Resurrection and the “abilities” of our body after the Second Coming of Christ which led to an interesting question:

How was Jesus’ body different before he died? At first it seems obvious, he wasn’t walking through walls or changing his appearance, etc. But, did His body change? Certainly He is God and could have done these things even before His death had He wished to do so. Also, He would have lived forever, given He had no sin, if He wasn’t crucified etc.

Just an interesting question, maybe some sources for your answers so i could follow up after seeing your responses. Thanks!

 

[EloyCraft]

His body was subject to change before the resurrection such as a mortal wound. He could be killed. Not so afterwards. His body enjoys the eternal state united to His soul which is assumed to God(His divinity) since His conception.

 

[Eddycrocker2165]

Scripture says the first Adam was made a living soul and the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Jesus was said of also in scripture that he came in the likeness of sinful flesh. Likeness doesn’t mean the same as. The Holy Spirit came in the likeness of a dove but the Holy Spirit isn’t a dove. Scripture uses likenesses as a way for us to understand the immaterial by the use of material things. This is why scripture uses allegorical and parabolical demonstrations to illustrate spiritual realities that cannot be seen. Without the physical realm to compare to the spiritual we have no way to communicate the unseen realm of spirit. Jesus’s body before the resurrection was in a likeness of a physical body and was tempted in like manner as we are . After the resurrection his body was a spiritual body. He said to the father a body hast thou prepared for me. That body that was prepared was a spiritual body that we exist in order for us to see and to know the father. We are the body of Christ and he is the head of that body which we are. That’s how we know the father thru that body that was prepared for us that is the son Christ Jesus. Protestant churches talk about the rapture which the word rapture is not found in the Bible but the reality of that word is found in scripture. It says if he be risen with Christ seek those things that are above where moths and rust don’t corrode. With the rapture theory the Churches interpret that people are rapture for taken up out of this world. But if we are risen or raptured then how are we going to seek those things which are above when we would already be living from above if that were the true interpretation. If we be risen with Christ speaks about a state of living above the confines of time and living in the state of heaven. Scripture also says we are seated with Christ In Heavenly places. That also sounds like a rapture or an elevated state while living in the realm of time. Remember when scripture says Jesus couldn’t do any mighty works in his hometown because of their unbelief. People of Jesus’s hometown were saying of him is that not the carpenters son. Are not these his brothers and sisters here and it starts to name his brethren. So we see Jesus was living in a raptured state or an elevated state of the kingdom. His body still existed In the realm Of time but his true self was caught up into heaven and people didn’t recognize his true self as the son of God but they only knew him after his flesh. 2 Corinthians 5:16-17 says know ye no man after the flesh, we have known Christ after the flesh know we him no longer. Then it says in the 17th verse old things have passed away behold all things have become new. The old way of knowing people after the flesh must pass away in order for all things can become new which is our spiritual body hidden under and in the midst of this physical fleshly body. Our physical body is just a vehicle to communicate our true body and our true self!!