Does 1 Corinthians 15: 50 indicate that Christ physical body in not in heaven

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A JW door knocker came this morning and we had an interchange. I asked he who is Jesus to him, the conversation drifted to his claim that Jesus is in heaven only spiritually in light of 1Corinthians 15:50. I am starting research on this topic, but no sense in re-inventing the wheel in case someone here has a good explanation of what this verse means in light of a ascension of body and soul.

God Bless, he is risen.
 
Christ is the first-fruits (1 Cor 15:20, 1 Cor 15:23). He has already “clothed himself with incorruptibility [and] immortality”. (1 Cor 15:53). We will – future tense here! – “bear the image of the heavenly [Adam]” (i.e., Christ) (1 Cor 15:49).

In v50, Paul is talking about us, as humans, not about Christ.
 
In this verse ‘flesh and blood’ means human beings. The point is that our bodies in its present state cannot enter Heaven. They have to be radically changed. Jesus had a resurrected glorified body not the same as the rest of us ‘flesh and blood’. in the next verse 15:51 St. Paul says ‘we shall all be changed’ at the last judgement.
 
Awesome, I need to read the entirety of 1 Corinthians and keep these points in mind.
 
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