Be careful, Blue. I sympathize with you, but this is just the kind of thing Vlad likes to seize on and try to shame you with. When Jesus ascended to Heaven (the third one) He did have a body, a spiritual one, without blood. That will be the kind we get at the harpadzo, the "Rapture":
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" (1 Jn. 3:2 AV).
Blue, we now have a Man, a human, in Heaven, at the Father's favored right hand, making intercession for us. Remember that: A Man in Heaven, our representative.
>>>>Blue, we now have a Man, a human, in Heaven, at the Father's favored right hand, making intercession for us. Remember that: A Man in Heaven, our representative.<<<<
Without Him, I'd have no prayer, no chance for one to be heard. Of that, there is no doubt.
Yet still, I don't pray to the Christ, save by praying to His true Father, as Jesus is attributed to having instructed.
They are both --- of the same stuff -- the same Spirit, there being no division among them, of that there can be no doubt, specially now, after the Christ's Ascension to where He was, just as He was before he came down from heaven in the first place. Assuredly now --- even more so than when Christ walked upon earth in form a man.
“Be careful, Blue. I sympathize with you, but this is just the kind of thing Vlad likes to seize on and try to shame you with.”
What a strange turned about way of looking at things. Blue is posting out right heresies (and you apparently are fully aware of that or else you would be correcting him!) and yet your concern is not with the denial of the Incarnation and Resurrection by Blue, no, you’re worried I might “seize on [it] and try to shame [Blue] with [it].”
“Blue, we now have a Man, a human, in Heaven, at the Father’s favored right hand, making intercession for us. Remember that: A Man in Heaven, our representative.”
I’m glad you’re teaching Blue basic Christian doctrines. It is a shame that it needs to be done. It is even more shameful that a man who repeatedly attacks orthodoxy is such an avid proponent of heterodoxy as Blue is. Heresy is shameful in itself. Denial of the Incarnation and Resurrection is ALWAYS SHAMEFUL.
You have dissed Rome's Mary!