The apostle John’s language, the Word became flesh (John 1:14).
His flesh was not a costume.
He forever joined our humanity to his divinity and for all eternity will be fully God and fully man.
Like I said before, "for all eternity" is an assumption. If the Son of God can change forms one time, he can do it many times. In fact the Word became flesh was not eternal and did change again as you have stated in this thread in that he changed to a glorified state. At a minimum he appeared/disappeared, walked through walls, took on the image of another human. This thread has debated how human or heavenly/spiritual was his state, but you do acknowledge a change did occur in him post resurrection.
“Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
He went up with a human body, sits now in God’s presence in his humanity. And will return “in the same way as you saw him go into heaven”
—in humanity.
He went up with a glorified body. Regardless, read Jesus' own words along with others where he describes his return. The emphasis is as he ascended in clouds, he will descend at his return in clouds.
Matthew 24:30 “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man
coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.
Mark 13:26 “At that time people will see the Son of Man
coming in clouds with great power and glory.
Luke 21:27 At that time they will see the Son of Man
coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them
in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
Revelation 1:7 “Look, he
[Jesus] is coming with the clouds,” and “every eye will see him, even those who pierced him”; and all peoples on earth “will mourn because of him.” So shall it be! Amen.
Philippians
Our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
As long as this thread has grown to you should have read many references to 1 Cor 15, the definitive text on the resurrected body. In there you will learn that
body does not imply human flesh.
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There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another.
Paul also makes reference to Jesus’ continuing humanity in 1 Timothy 2:5.
There is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
This is after Jesus’ ascension to heaven, and he refers to Jesus in the present as “the man Christ Jesus.”
Jesus’ work as the perfect mediator between God and man is not only dependent on his death, at the cross but also in his ongoiing humanity.
You and Crypto need to learn that the Son of God has been mediator since day one. If we need a mediator now, then people 3000 years ago also needed one. The 1 Timothy passage acknowledges that there is only one mediator; just like Jesus said "I am the good shepherd". These are eternal roles of the Son of God as long as we exist. The passage uses the human name for the mediator, that being Jesus Christ. He could also say the Son of God without the man and be just as correct. The message of the passage is that there is ONE mediator, not that the mediator is a man.
Paul also said that the mediator with the angels was entrusted with the law. This means the Son of God directed the angels to carry out the O.T. law. Then when the Son of God came as Jesus, he mediated a new covenant. Does it not make sense that if there is one mediator between God and man that he would mediate both the old covenant and the new?
Galatians 3:19 Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels and
entrusted to a mediator.
If you think Paul's words so definitive, he also said
Jesus was not a man when he called him. So now I have proved that he is not man in heaven, using your logic. This is not really want convinced me though.
Galatians 1:1 Paul, an apostle—
sent not from men nor by a man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead
