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To: don-o
When Jesus talked to Thomas, Jesus didn't have any blood...And his flesh was not as our human flesh...

And you know that how?

From studying the scriptures... Christ has a body of “flesh and bones” (Lk 24:39), but there is no blood in His body, because it was all poured out for sin upon the cross. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul” (Lv 17:11).

The life of the natural flesh was in the blood, but that body is transformed in resurrection: “It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body” (1 Cor:15:44). The old flesh that gives us such trouble will be no more after the resurrection, but we will have “spiritual” bodies like Christ’s. We couldn’t die if we wanted to!

Christ now lives in “the power of an endless life” (Heb:7:16), and “being raised from the dead dieth no more” (Rom:6:9). So it will be with us, for we shall be “in the likeness of his resurrection” (Rom:6:5).

Christ told Thomas, “Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side…” (Jn:20:27). If Christ had blood in His body He would be bleeding from five wounds. There must be a gaping hole in His side for Thomas to have been able to thrust his hand into it! He will forever bear the marks of Calvary as a constant reminder of the cost of our salvation.

608 posted on 01/26/2015 2:40:55 AM PST by Iscool
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To: Iscool

We kind of wandered off of addressing your claim that Jesus ceased to be a man (post 288) when he died on the cross. Jesus rose from the dead in a physical body which to all appearances was that of a man. Do you disagree with that?

Consider also Christ as Second Adam. Would you not agree that Adam was a man?

Does it not make sense that His defeat of death removed the curse that first Adam’s disobedience brought forth? First Adam did not become something other than a man. We are not given a very much description about what First Adam was like; but, dare we to say that Second Adam discarded His Manhood? Would that not mean that God has despised the work of His own hands?

Something to think about?


612 posted on 01/26/2015 3:33:03 AM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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