Did Jesus raise from the dead bodily?

This is one of the places where the tradition itself is divided, and I want to honor that before I share what I have come to believe. The Gospels do speak in bodily terms. The risen Jesus invites Thomas to touch his wounds (John 20:27, KJV), eats broiled fish before the disciples (Luke 24:42-43, KJV), and insists, "a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have" (Luke 24:39, KJV). Taken at the surface, these say bodily. Yet the same accounts strain against that surface. He passes through locked doors (John 20:19, KJV). Mary Magdalene, who loved him most, does not recognize him until he speaks her name (John 20:14-16, KJV). The disciples on the road to Emmaus walk and talk with him for hours and know him only in the breaking of bread (Luke 24:30-31, KJV). And Paul, our earliest witness, writes plainly, "It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body" (1 Corinthians 15:44, KJV), declaring that "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Corinthians 15:50, KJV). So what was demonstrated? I believe the resurrection was real—not a vision, not a fond memory, but a genuine triumph. Yet its meaning was never the resuscitation of a corpse. It was the revelation that life is indissoluble, that what we are in God cannot be killed (Treatise of the Resurrection 48.3-6). The bodily details, I would gently suggest, were the tender accommodation of a truth almost too vast to receive—Jesus meeting frightened disciples where they were, as he always did, showing them he was no ghost so they could grasp that he was no longer dead. The Treatise on the Resurrection puts it beautifully: the resurrection is "the revelation of what is, and the transformation of things, and a transition into newness" (Treatise of the Resurrection 48.34-38). So my conviction is this: Jesus rose—truly, victoriously—but as the spiritual fact of his being, undimmed by the grave, showing every one of us what is already true of our own eternal nature. The empty tomb was never the proof; the living Christ was, and is. If you would like, I am glad to sit longer with any of these passages with you.