You just can't see what is plainly written....Jesus was resurrected as a spirit as the scripture says...read it again...Paul said...
"So also it is written: “The first man, Adam, became a living person.” The last Adam was a life-giving spirit."
Peter said that Jesus was "put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit" (1 Peter 3:18)....wouldn't Peter and Paul know better than you, since Jesus appeared to both of them after his resurrection?
He wasn't a spirit when he died.....he was a human.....but he was raised as a spirit...as the scripture says.....give it up....you really are flogging a dead horse mate.
Jehovah’s Witnesses like to point to a few verses in support of their claim. Their go-to proof text for the non-physical resurrection is
1 Corinthians 15:42–44. Here Paul is contrasting the earthly body with the resurrected body. The earthly body is perishable, dishonorable, weak, and natural. The resurrected body is imperishable, glorious, powerful, and spiritual.
So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural [psychikos] body; it is raised a spiritual [pneumatikos] body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. (
1 Cor. 15:42–44)
The Jehovah’s Witness will say, “See, Paul describes our present, earthly bodies as ‘natural,’ and our future, resurrected bodies as ‘spiritual.’” However, they wrongly assume that natural and spiritual mean physical and nonphysical, respectively. The question is: What does Paul mean by the terms “natural” and “spiritual”?
Paul uses the exact same words earlier in his first letter to the Corinthians. He writes,
The natural [psychikos] person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual [pneumatikos] person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. (
1 Cor. 2:14–15)
Notice the natural person does not mean a physical person, but rather a person oriented toward human nature or soul. In fact, psychikos, which is translated “natural,” literally means soul-ish. Similarly, the spiritual person does not mean a non-physical, spirit person. Rather, it’s a person oriented toward the Spirit. Paul is contrasting soul-led persons with Spirit-led persons. The contrast is not one of physicality, but of orientation.
Therefore, Paul is explaining that the future resurrected body will be freed from slavery to the weak, mortal, dishonorable, sinful human nature. The resurrected body will be led, sustained, empowered, and made glorious by the Spirit. As Christians, we believe in a future bodily, physical, spiritual resurrection, because this is what the New Testament teaches.
The above facts align perfectly with Jesus telling the apostles He was NOT a spirit, but has a body of flesh and bones, whereas the watchtower claims result in making Jesus a deceptive liar.