What happened to Jesus' body at the ascension?

Answer 1

After Jesus' resurrection, He ate food and, at times, could be touched (though the exact reason why He allowed some to touch Him but not others isn't clear in Scripture). He specifically told Thomas to feel the wounds that Thomas had witnessed during Jesus' crucifixion; by feeling them, Thomas' famous doubt was expelled. In the first chapter of Acts, Jesus is seen ascending into the clouds, after which a voice from Heaven says that He would return one day "in like manner." Therefore it can be assumed that Jesus did indeed ascend into Heaven "body and soul." Reading accounts of His interaction with people after His resurrection, though, indicates that His post-resurrection body had several different characteristics from the standard model, including the ability to appear wherever He wished, and to be "cloaked" or unrecognizable at will. To remain Maschiach of Israel, Yeshua has to be human.

Answer 2

Just as Jesus' resurrection was in His real physical body and He ate food and talked with His disciples, shoewed them His wounds etc, He also rose into heaven in the same way. If He did not do this in actual fact, and it was all 'spiritual' then the opponents would have produced His body and disproved the resurrection.

According to Luke 14:36-43, 50, 51, Jesus ascended to heaven in a body of flesh and blood

According to Paul, Jesus ascended to heaven not by flesh and blood but by spiritual body: "But some man will say, How are the dead raised up and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die; and that which thou sowest thou sowest not that body that shall be" (I Corinthians 15: 35-37).

"It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body" (44)

"Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God" (50).

Religious people will tell you that he ascended both physically and spiritually, because his body was not at the tomb when the disciples came to annoint the body as was custom for the time.

Non-religious people will tell you that the story of Jesus in the christian bible is a vehicle by which to impart important life lessons and isn't to be taken literally.

You can decide which is best for you.

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Answer 3

A:It is central tenet of Christian belief that Jesus rose to heaven after his resurrection. After all, it would be difficult to understand the value of his resurrection if he was to die again soon afterwards. But two accounts suggest that ascent to heaven was synonymous with his resurrection, while two other accounts state that he was seen rising bodily up to heaven, which was once thought of as a physical space in the sky just above the clouds.

In Paul's epistles, Jesus' ascent to heaven was synonymous with his resurrection. Paul seems to have believed that all of the appearances to Cephas, the twelve, the 500, then James and the apostles were as spiritual as the appearance he experienced.

The author of Mark's Gospel must have intended the ascent of Jesus to be synonymous with his resurrection. This, the first New Testament gospel to be written, originally ended at verse 16:8, without the appearances of the risen Jesus that we now see in the 'Long Ending', which now places him back on earth for a period.

Luke's Gospel gives a graphic account of Jesus ascending bodily into heaven near Bethany, not far from Jerusalem, on the evening following the resurrection. As this Gospel was written by the same author as Acts of the Apostles, some believe that this account is a later interpolation.

Acts of the Apostles, although written by the same author as Luke's Gospel, records that Jesus remained on earth for forty days and was then taken up "and a cloud received him out of their sight."

Answer 4

Yes, he did. Probably not. There is no extra-biblical evidence that Jesus ascended to heaven. Even the gospels themselves disagree about the time and place of his ascension, and the bodily ascension of Luke 24:51 seems most improbable, now that we know that heaven is not really located physically just above the Earth.

Answer 5

It is central tenet of Christian belief that Jesus rose to heaven after his resurrection. After all, it would be difficult to understand the value of his resurrection if he was to die again soon afterwards. The details come down to us in various forms from the New Testament:

In Paul's epistles, Jesus' ascent to heaven was synonymous with his resurrection. Paul seems to have believed that all of the appearances to Cephas, the twelve, the 500, then James and the apostles were as spiritual as the appearance he experienced.

In Mark's Gospel, originally the ascent of Jesus must have also been synonymous with his resurrection. This Gospel originally ended at verse 16:8, without the appearances of the risen Jesus that we now see in the "Long Ending".

Matthew's Gospel does not actually say whether Jesus ascended into heaven, but if he did it would have been after his only meeting with the disciples, at the mountain in Galilee.

Luke's Gospel gives a graphic account of Jesus ascending bodily into heaven near Bethany, not far from Jerusalem. This seems to have occurred on the evening following the resurrection.

John's Gospel does not actually say whether Jesus ascended into heaven, but if he did it would have been after his final meeting with the disciples, at the Sea of Galilee.

Acts of the Apostles, although written by the same author as Luke's Gospel, records that Jesus remained on earth for forty days and was then taken up. Presumably the author received further information between the time of writing the Gospel and writing Acts.

Answer 6

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Whether Jesus will return at all is a matter of faith. The earliest prophecy of his return is in Mark's Gospel, where Jesus is portrayed as saying that he would return on clouds of glory in the lifetimes of those then living. This clealry failed to happen, and the gospels that were written after Mark altered this to say that no one knows when Jesus will return.

Since it is a matter of faith whether Jesus will return, it is also a matter of faith whether that return will be in body or in spirit. You may choose which to believe, confident that no one will prove otherwise.

Answer 7

A:The early Christians believed that heaven is just up there above the sky. When Jesus ascended, in Luke 24:51 on the evening of the day of his resurrection and in Acts 1:9 forty days after hids resurrection, his body went to heaven above.

Further evidence of this belief is found in Acts 7:55, which has Stephen look upwards and see Jesus quite visible in heaven on the right hand of God.

Answer 8

A:The author of Luke's Gospel makes it quite clear that the risen Jesus was flesh and blood (Luke 24:39-43). The author goes on (Luke 24:51) to make it clear that the flesh and blood Jesus ascended on the evening of the day of his resurrection, or alternatively (Acts 1:9) forty days after his resurrection. There is no suggestion otherwise.