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To: Arthur McGowan
The risen Jesus showed Thomas the holes in his hands and feet, and the wound in his side. The risen Christ was the same man who hung on the cross, lived in Nazareth, and was born in Bethlehem.

Well, we can believe you or we can believe God...

Jesus' body died...It was resurrected and glorified...Just as will happen to humans when they are resurrected...We will get spiritual bodies...

What about Jesus' human nature??? Jesus was tempted...He fought temptation and won...He was tempted just as we are...

Do you think Jesus now can be tempted??? If he has a human nature, he can...God can not be tempted...Jesus could only be tempted when he was in the flesh...Jesus no longer has that human nature...

So where do you get your information from??? It's human logic (philosophy) and your religous customs, isn't it??? No scripture involved...

575 posted on 01/25/2015 7:46:55 PM PST by Iscool
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To: Iscool
...”Jesus’ body died...It was resurrected and GLORIFIED”...... I'm convinced they are not sufficiently informed of the resurrection of Jesus and what it means in relationship to Jesus or us....bodily and otherwise. Much in catholic-ism is focused on the past, as if the New Testament is something simply to tack on now and then. Just as much, their focus keeps Him on the cross one way or the other...not about his Resurrection. For them to move forward would mean an affect on how they see communion and see the elements as well as their Priesthood...and that's too close for comfort.
583 posted on 01/25/2015 8:21:40 PM PST by caww
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To: Iscool
Do you think Jesus now can be tempted??? If he has a human nature, he can...God can not be tempted...Jesus could only be tempted when he was in the flesh...Jesus no longer has that human nature...

We are capable of being tempted because we do not see God as he is, but only by analogy, through our various experiences in this life.

Jesus was tempted, but there was never any danger that he would sin because he could not be deceived. That's the whole point of his temptations: He was tempted like Adam, at the very beginning of his public ministry, but unlike Adam, Jesus did not sin. Jesus' temptations are NOT about his being WEAK, but about his TRIUMPHING over sin.

Jesus, in heaven, remains both God and man. He cannot sin because he sees God as he is, not, as we do "as in a glass, darkly," as St. Paul says.

You seem to be a Manichean or some other form of Gnostic: "Spirit is good, the body is bad," or "Divine is good, human is evil."

Gnosticism is a perennial distortion of Christianity.

592 posted on 01/25/2015 9:03:02 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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