If you hold out for a physical resurrection instead of a spiritual one, you inevitably have some questions from skeptics:
I wrote some questions down and some rebuttals to the proofs that were offere, but after reflection I thought the addition was unkind and unnecessary.
Physical Resurrection is a matter of faith, but IMHO shouldn’t be dispositive of the value of Jesus and his message of hope and redemption and the relationship of each of us to his/her belief in a higher power.
So I hope every Christian, fundamentalist or not, has renewed his faith in the Jesus message of redemption by celebrating Easter.
From my reading of Scripture, it was PHYSICAL RESURRECTION that the apostles were talking about. Otherwise, they wouldn't have faced such aggressive disbelief - and hostility. Saying, "he's still with us in spirit," is very uncontroversial. But they said something that caused controversy - and anger. If you read the Book of Acts, it sure sounds as if they're saying they SAW a RESURRECTED Jesus. Most people scoffed, and that's natural since people don't rise from the dead. But that's what they say they saw. You can say they were wrong, but trying to water their message down into a "spiritual" resurrection isn't true to what they were saying.