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How Is Jesus’ Body in Heaven?

Question:

I know God is pure spirit, and so does not occupy space. But what about the divine person of Jesus Christ? Where is his body?

Answer:

We do know that it is possible for someone to have a body in heaven because Elijah was taken up to heaven (2 Kgs. 2:11).

The resurrected body of Jesus is not a normal human body, it is a glorified body. Jesus was able to enter locked rooms (Jn. 20:19), disappear from sight (Lk. 24:31), appear in a “different form” (Mk. 16:12), and ascend into the sky (Acts 1:9). The glorified body of Jesus was not limited by the physics of our fallen world.

How exactly this all works is a bit of a mystery (1 Cor. 2:9) but we do know that God can bring about any possibility (Lk. 1:37).

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