There is a trick of the Devil today of trying to confess the resurrection but to deny that it was bodily. Consider
the prool aganist such heresy.
A. Only the body died, (Luke 23:43,46). Therefore, only the body could revive.
B. The angels knew it was his body for which the women searched, so it was obviously the body which they
told them had risen. (Luke 24:2-6). Were they there to anoint a spirit?
C. Throughout all the New Testament accounts of the resurrection, it is the absence of the body that was
claimed as evidence of His resurrection. (Luke 24:12,23; Mark 16:6; and Matthew 28:6),
D. The angels spoke of that which was laid, being raisen. Was this the spirit? Of course not, it was the
body. (Mark 16:6).
E. The Lord told Thomas to touch his hands and his side. (John 20:27). Was this a spirit?
F. The Lord himself flatly states that He is not a spirit but flesh in Luke 24:39-44.
G. Obviously that which was buried is that which rose again. (1 Corinthians 15:4).