There is this also, proof of conscious existence in the heavenly dimension after flesh death... which shows you don't need a flesh body there.
1 Peter 3:18-20
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also He went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
KJV
1 Peter 4:5-6
5 Who shall give account to Him That is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
KJV
Judged according to those alive in the flesh, but live according to God "in the spirit"; which means what? What is being compared there? Those living in the flesh vs. those dead living according to God in the spirit.
Ecclesiastes 12 tells us at flesh death our spirit goes back to God Who gave it, and our flesh goes back to the earth where it came from. So what kind of body did those spirits in prison have which Jesus was able to preach The Gospel to? They had a spirit body, which is the image of the heavenly, a body like the angels have.
It was prophecy in Isaiah 42:7 that Jesus would preach The Gospel to those in darkness in the prison house in hell, and lead out those who believed on Him:
Isa 42:7
7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
KJV
1 Peter 3:18-20
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also He went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
KJV
1 Peter 4:5-6
5 Who shall give account to Him That is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
KJV
Judged according to those alive in the flesh, but live according to God "in the spirit"; which means what? What is being compared there? Those living in the flesh vs. those dead living according to God in the spirit.
Ecclesiastes 12 tells us at flesh death our spirit goes back to God Who gave it, and our flesh goes back to the earth where it came from. So what kind of body did those spirits in prison have which Jesus was able to preach The Gospel to? They had a spirit body, which is the image of the heavenly, a body like the angels have.
It was prophecy in Isaiah 42:7 that Jesus would preach The Gospel to those in darkness in the prison house in hell, and lead out those who believed on Him:
Isa 42:7
7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
KJV