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NASB | Luke 24:39 "See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; touch Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 24:39 "Look at [the marks in] My hands and My feet, [and see] that it is I Myself. Touch Me and see; a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see that I have." [John 20:20-27] |
Bible Question: Hi, I've not used the forum before and not too sure how it works - so thought I'd just come in with a question to see what happens. I'd always understood there was no such thing as Ghost's (human spirits without bodies), does this verse (and see from verse 36) suggest otherwise? |
Bible Answer: Phil J, Welcome to the forum. The resurrected Jesus was not a ghost. He body was resurrected in a glorified state with properties and capabilities beyond our bodies now, but He ate and spoke to his disciples and even asked Thomas to put his finger into the nail wounds and his hand into the wound in his side. What disembodied spirit can do that. We will have the same kind of fglorified bodies at the resurrection of the dead. We are told in scripture not to call up the dead, since we can be easily deceived by evil spirits and we are not to attempt to know the future by necromancy por fortune tellers, but rather to truet in the Lord and obey his commands. On the other hand, the spirits or souls of the dead do exist until the resurrection of the body at the Second Coming when we will receive glorified bodies. "Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, "hell" - Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek - because those who are there are deprived of the vision of God.(Cf. Phil 2:10; Acts 2:24; Rev 1:18; Eph 4:9; Pss 6:6; 88:11-13.) Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous, while they await the Redeemer: which does not mean that their lot is identical, as Jesus shows through the parable of the poor man Lazarus who was received into "Abraham's bosom":(Cf. Ps 89:49; 1 Sam 28:19; Ezek 32:17-32; Lk 16:22-26) "It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Savior in Abraham's bosom, whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into hell." Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him.(Mt 27:52-53)" Emmaus |