Re: [asa] Physicalism and Incarnation

Not to mention martyrs burned at the stake, and people who opt for
cremation and scattering of ashes... Resurrection for these folks?

--merv

Brent Foster wrote:
> I'm inclined to agree that Christ's resurrection was to a spiritual body. But if this is the case then why was Thomas able to see the nail scars in Jesus' hands? Will our resurrection bodies also bear scars from past injuries, missing arms or legs? What about beheading victems?
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> Brent
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> ---- George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:
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> It is possible to speak in some ways of "bodily resurrection" without "physical resurrection" but if one believes that the tomb was empty (as Wright does) then the physical body of Jesus was involved in whatever the resurrection was. "Resuscitation" would be essentially the return of Jesus' body to its condition before death. OTOH resurrection as Paul speaks of it in I Cor.15 means transformation of the "physical body" into a "spiritual body," not some process which bypasses the physical.
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> Shalom
> George
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Received on Thu Mar 1 18:17:49 2007