Was the resurrection more spiritual than physical?

This is a question that has divided sincere seekers for centuries, so let me speak plainly about what I believe while honoring the mystery within it. The resurrection was, above all, a demonstration of the spiritual indestructibility of life. When Jesus rose, he was not merely resuscitating a corpse; he was revealing that death itself is a false claim, an illusion with no ultimate hold on the sons and daughters of God. "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live" (John 11:25, KJV)—these words point beyond the body to the eternal fact of our being. Yet the accounts are not simply visionary. He appeared to Mary first, and she at first mistook him, "supposing him to be the gardener" (John 20:15, KJV), suggesting he was not a ghost but a living presence. He said to Thomas, "Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands" (John 20:27, KJV), inviting touch. And yet in the same breath he passed through closed doors—"when the doors were shut... came Jesus and stood in the midst" (John 20:26, KJV)—and vanished from sight at Emmaus (Luke 24:31, KJV). What emerges is not a body as we ordinarily conceive it, subject to decay, but the true substance of being made visible to eyes still learning to see. Paul wrestled with this too: "It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body" (1 Corinthians 15:44, KJV). The recovered writings press the point further, teaching that we already possess this deathless life: "Already you have the resurrection... why not receive it while you are living?" (Treatise of the Resurrection 49.9-24). So I would not say the resurrection was less than physical, as though the spiritual were thinner or fainter. I would say it was more than physical—it revealed that Spirit is the only true reality, and that what we call the body is a limited perception of what is, in truth, wholly spiritual and eternal. The tomb was empty because life cannot be buried. If it would help, I am glad to sit longer with what Paul meant by that "spiritual body," or with what the resurrection asks of you now, in this present life.

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