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A Response to Reaper's Well-Intentioned Meme

A Response to Reaper's Well-Intentioned Meme | Jesus is alive.  However, not because His spirit existed after His death but because on the third day He rose again - with His physical body (Luke 24:39). He has ascended into heaven - with His body (Acts 1:9) - and will return with it (Acts 1:10-11) | image tagged in resurrection,memes,jesus christ,death burial resurrection | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
848 views 5 upvotes Made by UniformVictor 3 years ago in Christian-clean-meme
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amen
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UNINTENTIONAL HARM

With his good intentions to give support to Christians, and give credence to the Christian faith, Reaper_The_God_Of_Games (a good friend of mine here in ImgFlip) has made the following meme: imgflip.com/i/5flq1f

Unfortunately, He ( imgflip.com/i/56ik4x ) not very familiar with biblical Christian theology made a meme that has a serious error that it assumed that Jesus was merely a spirit after death, and resides or roams in a spirit world.

That is diametrically opposed to the Christian faith in scripture.

The meme in actuality has denied the physical and bodily resurrection of Christ, virtually introduced an unbiblical notion of the spirit world.

Jesus, is, residing in a kind of spirit world merely because there are spirits there, but the Kingdom of Heaven is a place where not all spirits reside but only those who are without sin (Psalms 5:4-5).

LESSONS TO BE LEARNED

This is why you need to read the bible (Acts 17:10-11 & 2 Timothy 2:15). For those new to faith will see his meme and assume that it is of proper theology when it is not.

Furthermore, there are cult groups who deny the physical resurrection of Christ such as the Jehovah's Witnesses which His meme inadvertently has given credence to. That same group denies the doctrine of Hell, the deity of Christ in which they believe that Jesus is Michael the Archangel, and believes that only the 144,000 will go to heaven while the rest will live in paradise on earth.
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I also want to add that not just any spirit can visit Him.

In the kingdom of Heaven only the righteous can there reside. Humans who have not given their lives to Christ but died in unbelief will not go to heaven but Hell (Hebrews 9:26 & John 3:36), and the angels who rebelled against God (Revelation 12:3-4 & 7-9) are evicted and permanently barred from heaven (Genesis 6:2 & 1 Peter 3:19).

It may be possible that the fallen Angels can visit Him; after all, Satan himself often comes before God to accuse believers as He did with Job (Job 1:6-11), but agai, not all spirits can visit Him nor reside in Heaven.
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Exactly, Victor. Anything intact in body and spirit is alive.
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Jesus is alive. However, not because His spirit existed after His death but because on the third day He rose again - with His physical body (Luke 24:39). He has ascended into heaven - with His body (Acts 1:9) - and will return with it (Acts 1:10-11)