Do God and Jesus have bodies of flesh and blood? — Section 24
Representative of a Christian church:
You and your church teach that God and Christ have bodies of flesh and blood yet we read where “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom God.” How then can they live in their own kingdoms with flesh and blood? See 1 Corinthians 16:50.
Missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
It is indeed true that ‘flesh and blood’ cannot enter the Kingdom of God, and we have never made the claim that they can. However, ‘flesh and bone’ can indeed enter the Kingdom of God, can and does and will! Let’ examine the scriptures a little more closely. Luke 24:36-39 teaches that Christ is a resurrected man, with a resurrected body of flesh and bones.
Representative of a Christian church:
Yes, that might be true, but that body ‘materialized’. How could he have appeared in the upper chambers with a body when the door and windows were locked?
Missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
How he did it is perhaps beyond our comprehension, but the fact is that he DID it! You ask how Christ came through a door or a window that wasn’t open. I ask of you how He walked on water with a mortal body? I ask you how He calmed a raging sea? I ask how he ascended into heaven with a tangible, resurrected body in defiance of the natural laws of gravity? I ask you how He came forth from his tomb through solid stone, when it took an angel to roll away the stone later? How did he pass through through an angry crowd in Nazareth without being harmed or captured? How did he vanish out of the sight or presence of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus after His resurrection? The answer to all of these questions is the same — Christ was governed by higher laws, and He had control over elements in a way that we cannot comprehend. He was not just a man, as we are — He was and is the Son of God. This same Christ who taught that by faith we could move mountains, surely had the power to enter a room with a body of flesh and bones as the scripuer reach us. Importantly, Leviticus 17:11 informs us that “…the life of the flesh is the blood…” and then in verse 14 we are taught, “For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for life thereof.” Christ did not have blood in his body at the time of His resurrection. Flesh and blood will not inherit the Kingdom of God, but flesh and bone will.
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