Whether Jesus was bodily resurrected.
The resurrection .. as in the appearances of Jesus after Death .. Physical in the Flesh - or Spiritual ? This is a debated topic.. There is no Physical Resurrection in the first Gospel - Mark ends with an empty tomb and the reader is left to wonder ..
This is unfortunate - one can infer however a spiritual resurrection I think... but we simply don't know anything beyond the empty tomb..
Can Paul help us ? Paul mention's a couple of the appearances .. but likens them to his Vision - which supports more of a Spiritual Resurrection ..
Matt was written round 80-100AD.. more likely parts of it were written - collected from older documents - and then stuff added - such as the physical resurrection stories - perhaps some coming from older documents .. but not from Mark . which was the primary source document for the author of Matt.
The problem is compounded in that Clement know's naught of a Physical Resurrection ... his description is of a spiritual Resurrection - 95-100AD.. no mention of Jesus wandering around in the flesh after death .. the "Smoking Gun" .. which he should have in CH 24-25 of his letter to the corinthians.
I forgot whether Ignatius shows knowledge .. but if so it came later .. 110-115. My guess - is that the Original Matt may not have contained the physical stories .. but these were added later.. - regardless of origin .. either that or Clement had not yet seen Matt - which argues for a later dating ..
In the later gospels the stories get bigger with time .. but regardless .. I believe in the spiritual resurrection . .. not so convinced of the physical .. and does not really matter much in the grande scheme of things .. sans the "smoking gun" .. and wouldn't that be nice .. defacto proof ..
Hard to imagine Mark not including it .. Paul not knowing about it - viewing it as spiritual - and early Church Fathers .. in trying to convince the Corinthians of the truth of the resurrection .. using numerous examples from nature (from the Universe) the cycle of death and rebirth .. and even mentioning the Egyptian myth of the Phoenix - which is reborn at a certain moment in a pillar of Fire.. Clement mentions scripture .. but no Smoking Gun .. he knows naught of it.
One thing is for sure though .. that I have studied this question for a long long time - is a tough one.
Jesus was always divine. That's basic Christianity 101. To believe otherwise is heresy.
Basic Christianity 101 according to who ? and again you try to usurp the Position of the Logos .. who are you to call something heresy.
The Trinity was heresy until well into the 3rd century .. and viewed as heresy by a rather large and powerful segment of Christianity for another 400 years after Nicene.. when this dogma was made official doctrine .. much to the chagrin of many of the attendees ..yet they signed .. as the Emperor had decreed it so .. and only a complete idiot would not realize the gravity of going against the emperor's decree
Always Divine ? Sure -- why not .. just not on the same level as "The Father" in the Grand Scheme of things.
The Bible story however, does not suggest that Jesus was always divine - at least not in the beginning of the story - perhaps he had a bit of the spark of the divine ... and some unusual powers .. but he was not yet aware of his purpose .. or had that spark actualized
And this is how the story begins .. A man who is deified at the age of 30. Now if he was already a God .. why would he go for Testing right after ? The he was always God is not making sense in this equation .. now we find out more stuff later .. but at this point in the story .. No way ..
This man who has had a God patronize him - as was the beginning of a gazillion other stories that everyone was familiar with at the time .. Spirit of the Most High comes down on him .. "You are my Son - With whom I am Pleased" .. ahhhh .. but not so quick.
Directly after the Baptism the Spirit of God - emissary of God - directs Jesus to the Testing. Throughout Mark - Jesus acts as the Logos .. emissary between man and God .. who spoke God's word through the Holy Spirit .. although he is not described as such until 100-120 AD in John .. and I think a Good .. but most often misconstrued way .. specially giving the very bad Modern Translation of the term "Logos" - the the word "Word" - Naughty transcribers.
My question is not in relation to the divinity of Jesus or when it started .. I view Jesus as a Son of God .. a divinity .. how long he has been such is irrelevant. The thing most folks don't like is that I believe that The Father proceeds the Son from the Godhead .. and the Son is subordinate to Father.
) you are going to continue to live a good life .. regardless of whether or not you think you have a free pass through the gates .. because that is what good Christians do.. we follow the teachings of Jesus .. "the Teachings of God" as per Jesus.. I won't speak for those other teachings you follow ... calling them God's Word .. 
