(August 11, 2010 at 4:58 pm)Captain Scarlet Wrote:
In response to only the original post:
To believe in Jesus' ascension (as well as Elijah's and Elisha's) is to believe his physical material body was ascended to somewhere. Very little details on an actual ascension after the 3 days, 40 days of 5 hundred something days (depending on your literalist interpretation) is present, but it is referenced as an event in the Bible. God exists in Heaven and Jesus supposedly sits at his right hand until judgement to make a place for us.
To go bodily from one realm (physical) to another ( immaterial) realm, IMO, would either be similar to an alien transporter from sci-fi or raising and then blinking into another dimension. Either way there would have to be either a transcendant event that metamorphs the matter into an insubstantial type of matter (I'm guessing like a hadron collider where they're just dispersed) or provisions made for the physical needs of a body. The former is far more likely. In conclusion, IMO I'd say that if his physical body did rise to a point, and then there were bright lights (shinging angels) that a transcendant event took place to remove the needs of his physical body thus enabling his to remain all spirit and enter Heaven the same state as he left.
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