This week's blog post . . .

[indianasmith]

An agnostic friend of mine composed a number of questions about God, which I answered to the best of my ability . . .


http://lewisliterarylair.blogspot.com/2017/11/answering-questions-from-agnostic.html

[Paquita]

Yikes!  Your "friend" seems like a handful.  The motif in this his argument, that you addressed several times, is though he doesn't believe in God, he still blames him for the hurricanes. 

[indianasmith]

Seems like a lot of people who don't believe in God are awfully angry with Him! LOL

[lester1/2jr]

I've got one: what happened to Jesus' earthly body when he ascended to Heaven?

[ER]

I've got one: what happened to Jesus' earthly body when he ascended to Heaven?

What we were told was Jesus was not a spirit, Jesus was a person who returned after death in a glorified body, like those promised to the faithful after resurrection, so that was what ascended. It did not stay behind.

You know, I've always thought, how high did he go, into space or just out of sight?

I've also wondered how the world can end on a specific day when half the world lies either a day ahead of behind the other half. Though I guess that's nitpicking, like trying to say you've already had your birthday, it was yesterday, in Australia. (Yes, someone tried that on me.)

[lester1/2jr]

whats his name put his fingers in the nail holes and he was like there though

[ER]

whats his name put his fingers in the nail holes and he was like there though

Thomas

[indianasmith]

I've got one: what happened to Jesus' earthly body when he ascended to Heaven?

He has it there still; transformed and glorified, but according to Scripture still bearing the scars of His wounds.

[lester1/2jr]

so when people die does their entire body go the Heaven? are coffins empty? If he had an earthly body how can it also be a heavenly body

[ER]

so when people die does their entire body go the Heaven? are coffins empty? If he had an earthly body how can it also be a heavenly body

"A wizard did it."

[ER]

Ooooh, okay, I see your mistake, lester, you think religion actually has to make sense.

Nooo! It's G-d's prerogative to make it all as funny/crazy/silly/holy/miraculous as God wishes. Don't eat apples, get rid of foreskins, hold someone under water, virgin births, the devil gets this world, what's eternity and omnipotence without whimsy, eh?

But to give your question a fuller answer, I believe you are confusing the pre-Judgment Day afterlife with the post-Judgment Day one.

Currently souls, i.e. spirits, pure energy, of the non-damned glide up into Heaven for a stop-over beyond the pearly gates til the last trumpet blows, when, yes, everyone will pop out of graves, re-form from dust, blast up outa the sea like corks, sail back down from Heaven, and THEN that's when the glorified bodies get passed out and tombs are empty, and the devil and those not lucky enough to believe will face plant in a lake of fire with, as Rowan Atkinson said, the atheists in particular feeling like a right lot of nitwits.

Didn't say it made sense, just that it's in there!

So to review: nowadays=coffins occupied.

Thenadays=coffins empty.

I hope I cleared that up.

(BTW karma for anyone who ID's the previous "wizard" reference.)

[indianasmith]

Read the latter half of I Corinthians 15 if you still require clarification.

[lester1/2jr]

now I'm more confused. Where is his original body? not the spiritual one

[indianasmith]

Transformed, glorified, and renewed.  Think back on the Gospels - the tomb was empty; Jesus' physical body was restored to life and walked out.  He could eat, he could touch and be touched, he was still physical and corporeal.  But at the same time, he could pass through locked doors and appear in two different locations miles apart in short order.  He was still physical, but his body was operating at a different level than it had before.

Just remember this - God wouldn't be much of a God if we could understand everything about Him.  He is SUPPOSED to transcend us.

[Trevor]

This guy reminds me of Professor Radisson in God's Not Dead. 



I did like what he said about being a Christian but still having to pay a traffic ticket.