Where is the body of Jesus right now?

Emil Rez52 said:

The "right hand" of the Father is a metaphor. lol

That said, I imagine it's probably attached to the rest of Him, in heaven, the spiritual realm, somewhere. I highly doubt He is just sitting there on a throne all day.

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Perhaps I should rephrase my question: What is the geographic or physical location Jesus' body as of today?

Rawtheran said:

Yes Jesus rose in human form, and after spending 40 days on the Earth rose up into Heaven to reside with God. These events are explained in Luke 24:50-52 as well as all of the other Gospels such as Matthew, John, and Mark.

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Perhaps I should rephrase my question: What is the geographic or physical location Jesus' body as of today?

RDKirk said:

Jesus rose in material form and has been transferred to a dimension we're currently calling "Heaven."

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What is the geographic location of Heaven?

football5680 said:

In Heaven.


He rose in a glorified human body that will no longer decay. It is located in Heaven.

This is made clear in the Book of Revelation because Jesus still identifies himself as the root and descendant of David. The Spirit of Jesus is eternal so the only way he could call himself the root and descendant of David is if he continues to have a human body in Heaven.

“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.” (Revelation 22:16)

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Perhaps I should rephrase my question: What is the geographic or physical location Jesus' body as of today?

Stone Butterfly said:

It doesn't exist. When Jesus reentered his body after the crucifixion and the three days he was in Hell, he walked the earth for 40 days. But he told Mary who saw him returned to life that she could not touch him because he had not yet ascended to his father.
Jesus body was no longer flesh and blood but light. He was spirit manifest without the flesh that had acted as a container of the holy spirit when he was alive as the son of man.

Jesus spirit is returned to the source, to God. Jesus was God. And God is a spirit.
There is no body at all.

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Was there ever a physical body of Jesus? If so, where is the matter which made up his body?

RDKirk said:

Different universe. Rotate 90 degrees out of three-d space and you're there. It's better to be slightly elevated before rotating to take as little solid matter with you as possible.

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Perhaps I should rephrase my question: What is the geographic or physical location Jesus' body as of today?

Akureyri said:

Perhaps I should rephrase my question: What is the geographic or physical location Jesus' body as of today?

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We can't know. It's not just that we don't know, but it's really impossible to even understand heaven.

Akureyri said:

Where is the body of Jesus right now?

When Jesus rose from the dead, did he rise in human form? If so, is that human body still intact? Where is it?

If he didn't rise in human form, what happened to his skeletal remains?

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He's using it, still being man and God.

Akureyri said:

Perhaps I should rephrase my question: What is the geographic or physical location Jesus' body as of today?

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In Heaven. If his body was still on Earth then it means he was not resurrected and he did not ascend to heaven.

Akureyri said:

What is the geographic location of Heaven?

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Are you trying to decide if you can build a tower to get there?

Akureyri said:

Perhaps I should rephrase my question: What is the geographic or physical location Jesus' body as of today?

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I should rephrase my answer: Jesus' body is in a different Brane universe.

Akureyri said:

When I ask where the body of Jesus is, I mean physical or geographic location. Do you know what the physical or geographic location of Jesus skeletal remains is?

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When we talk about heaven being up we are talking metaphorical.

We are talking about some different level of existence.

Akureyri said:

If there are no bone fragments, then where did the physical matter which made up his bone fragments go?

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As I said, Jesus--the physical, flesh and bone human being--is at the right hand of the Father.

-CryptoLutheran

Akureyri said:

Perhaps I should rephrase my question: What is the geographic or physical location Jesus' body as of today?

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An impossible question to answer.

When the Scriptures teach that He ascended into Heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father it isn't talking about spatial coordinates.

Jesus isn't seated next to God's giant sky throne somewhere in the universe. Jesus reigns with the Father who is God everywhere, beyond all things and filling all things; "one God and Father of all, who is above all, through all, and in all." (Ephesians 4:6).

One can no more pinpoint the location of Jesus than one can pinpoint the location of God the Father. Jesus lives and reigns with the Father above all, through all, and in all; beyond all things, throughout all things.

-CryptoLutheran

Stone Butterfly said:

It doesn't exist. When Jesus reentered his body after the crucifixion and the three days he was in Hell, he walked the earth for 40 days. But he told Mary who saw him returned to life that she could not touch him because he had not yet ascended to his father.
Jesus body was no longer flesh and blood but light. He was spirit manifest without the flesh that had acted as a container of the holy spirit when he was alive as the son of man.

Jesus spirit is returned to the source, to God. Jesus was God. And God is a spirit.
There is no body at all.

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For the record, this is heresy. Specifically it's a form of Docetism.

-CryptoLutheran

So, do you think Heaven is an actual, physical place somewhere? Or more like a spiritual dimension?

Hockey_Fan said:

So, do you think Heaven is an actual, physical place somewhere? Or more like a spiritual dimension?

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Not a place we can map in terms of the usual 3 dimensions, but an overlapping reality.

Note that physical and spiritual are not opposing things in historic Christian thinking. Setting them as opposites is more gnostic than Christian.

Hockey_Fan said:

So, do you think Heaven is an actual, physical place somewhere? Or more like a spiritual dimension?

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Neither.

"Heaven" in these sorts of contexts is euphemistic language for the utmost, transcendent where God "dwells".

Where Jesus says "Kingdom of Heaven" in Matthew's Gospel, the other Gospels have Jesus saying "Kingdom of God"; "Heaven" being a euphemism for God.

It's to look up at the heavens--where the clouds, the stars, the planets, all that "dwell"--and to say "beyond all of that, beyond the highest of everything God is. Not that God dwells in some dimension or location or plane located beyond the material universe; that's not the point. The point is to address the vastness, the beyondness of God and thus "Heaven" or "the highest heaven" is to speak of God's own transcendence; not as though He were some sort of thing that exists in another dimension or what not.

God is both transcendent and immanent. Beyond all things and pervading all things. He is everywhere at all times, never lacking.

Jesus is at the right hand of God, that speaks to His power and authority as the Risen Christ seated to reign as Lord and King over all things; not of a physical (or even "spiritual") location.

As ebia noted, the whole physical-spiritual dichotomy is basically Gnostic dualism which historic, orthodox Christianity rejects. Which is why one should answer neither to your question, and instead understand what "Heaven" language means biblically, and that to understand what it means to say Jesus is seated at the right hand of God.

-CryptoLutheran

ChristianT said:

We can't know. It's not just that we don't know, but it's really impossible to even understand heaven.

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If you can't know, then it would follow that you don't know. My thread "Questions about Heaven" should be coming shortly.

Faulty said:

He's using it, still being man and God.

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Then what is the geographic location of the skeletal remains of Jesus?