Body of Christ

[Davy]

Yes, he can choose to move between atoms. Also, their windows are not like ours today. Even human saints were able to appear two places at the same time and we know they were physical.

 

[keithr]

?Jesus' Body "not made of flesh"??? What Saith The SCRIPTURE????:

Eph_5:30 "For we are members of HIS Body, of HIS Flesh, And of HIS Bones."

???

That's a classic example of taking a verse (in this case just part of a sentence) out of context and coming up with a totally incorrect idea/belief as a result! This is the whole passage, Ephesians 5:22-32 (WEB):

(22) Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.​

(23) For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.​

(24) But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.​

(25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;​

(26) that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,​

(27) that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.​

(28) Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.​

(29) For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;​

(30) because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.​

(31) “For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”​

(32) This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.​

In verse 31 Paul is referring back to Genesis 2:22-24 (WEB):

(22) Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.​

(23) The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”​

(24) Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.​

where the woman (Eve) was literally made from Adam's flesh and bones. So as a husband should love his wife, considering her to be part of his own flesh and body, likewise Jesus loves his bride, who he considers part of his own body, and Christians are all considered to be members, or parts, of that body. The verse is not saying that Jesus has a literal flesh and bones body! Paul says it's a great mystery, and as Peter said regarding Paul's letters, "In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction" (2 Peter 3:16). Nevertheless it's not that hard to deduce that verse 30 should not be understood to be referring to Jesus' actual body, just as we understand that a wife is not actually part of her husband's body.

 

[The Learner]

Acts 2:31
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

1 John 1
King James Version
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;