It's good that you routinely study the Bible.

"the early witness saw that the reurrection was physical(although not of "flesh and blood").

Please explain as this is the essence of my original question.

The canonical gospels all mention the resurrection although arguably, the
earliest manuscripts of the Markan account do not have Mk 16:9-20. Most
of the epistles in the NT also mention the resurrection.

Only looking at the account of John, chapter 21 was likely written as an
"appendix" to combat docetism ( a heretical belief that Yeshua was not
resurrected physically but rather only in "appearance" or merely "appeared"
to have a physical body ). Yeshua, together with the seven talmidim
( "disciples" ) that went fishing have a meal together ( this could be
considered a meal of reconciliation or a covenant meal, esp. for Shim'on Kefa
~ "Simon Peter" ).

John mentions that this is the third time Yeshua appeared to the talmidim
after being raised from the dead in Jn 21:14. Thus, for Yeshua to participate
in this meal of reconciliation which consisted of fish and bread with the seven
talmidim, he would have "some kind" of physical body.


Chapter 15 of 1 Corinthians is important concerning the resurrection and
the "believer"; therein, Paul states:

1 Cor 15:50 (NASB):
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50 Now I say this, brethren, that (BV)flesh and blood cannot (BW)inherit the
kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit (BX)the imperishable.


I'd recommend that all of 1 Cor 15 be read to understand the "gospel" Paul
preached to the congregation at Corinth and to get a glimpse of what "light"
he received.


Yeshua, being the "first fruits of those who are asleep" (1 Co 15:20) has
an "imperishable" body, not one of "flesh and blood"; otherwise, Yeshua
could not "inherit the kingdom of Hashem". It is true that Yeshua entered
"our world" as "flesh and blood".


John, in his first epistle also mentions that Yeshua indeed came into the
world as "flesh and blood" (also, in Jn 1:14) to combat the heretical notion
that Yeshua did not enter the world in human form:

1 Jn 4:1-3 (NASB):
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1(A) Beloved, do not believe every (B)spirit, but test the spirits to see
whether they are from God, because (C)many false prophets have gone out
into the world.

2 By this you know the Spirit of God: (D)every spirit that (E)confesses that
(F)Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;

3 and every spirit that (G)does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the
spirit of the (H)antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and (I)
now it is already in the world.

I think his point was that people who have years of training as writers, editors, and printers routinely make errors trying to report one days worth of news even though they all speak the same dialect of the same language. That doesn't bode well for the Bible trying to report a few thousand years worth of events, even if those who wrote them believed them all to be true and based them on their knowledge of actual events, most of which came from 2nd or 3rd+ hand sources.

You can't defend the accuracy of a book by quoting the book in question, lol.


1 a: a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon b: parable , allegory

2 a: a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone ; especially : one embodying the ideals and institutions of a society or segment of society <seduced by the American myth of individualism — Orde Coombs> b: an unfounded or false notion

3: a person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence

Which of these does not apply to the resurrection story?

I heard there isn't even any evidence that Jesus existed.

Not that I give a ****...

excellent post

Actually Jesus did not exist, but Yashua did.