He is alive Week 13, 2013

“Definitely so: With all the yearly celebrations, and weekly memorials in church services the message and teachings of the greatest man that ever lived has been kept alive. To live on in people’s memory is not to die.” Are you crazy or something? Jesus being alive today is not like Shakespeare or any of his characters. Julius Caesar is well remembered today but he is dead. Not alive like Jesus Christ. I mean Jesus is really still living, His spirit is in me “Yes of course. The spirits of the dead are alive in the spirit world. They do not simply exist in our memory but are active in the spirit world. Even Moses demonstrated in the story about the bush that the dead are raised, when he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all people are alive to him Lk 20:37, 38(ISV). So yes technically Jesus is alive just as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are still alive.” My friend, you are wrong. Unlike other religious figures He actually rose bodily. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God Act 1:3(ESV). He ate fish and people touched Him. “Well even if it was so then, what of now. It has been over a thousand years these events took place. Surely you are not suggesting Jesus is bodily alive for over a thousand years and none has seen him in Jerusalem?” Jesus is alive in flesh and bones right now we are talking here. He is sitting at God’s right hand in heaven (Mk 16:19) and has been bodily there for millennia. “You are the one that is crazy. A man alive in outer space? How is he surviving? What space-suit is, he wearing what food is he eating? Wake up man. This is pure fantasy.” The resurrection body of Jesus Christ is different from this one we now have. That's how it will be when our bodies are raised to life. These bodies will die, but the bodies that are raised will live forever 1Cor 15:42(CEV). In time to come when he returns this body of mine will be like that. He has power over everything, and he will make these poor bodies of ours like his own glorious body Phil 3:21(CEV). This fact you call fantasy is what makes Christianity. “I hope you realise what you claim is unscientific, irrational and fantastic.” Science. It was unscientific way back to say the earth is round when scripture referred to the circle of the earth. How many things today were unscientific decades ago? Jesus Christ is alive bodily. Every eye will see him when He returns. Rev 1:7