Oh how I love the Word of Goof!
Jesus is no longer a Man in the flesh.
1 Corinthians 10:44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Jesus’ flesh is not like the flesh we have, since he does not age like we do.
Jesus went back to heaven with the same glory he had before he came.
John 17:5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
Since we know Jesus had a body, and Jesus says for God to glorify him in His presence with the same glory…we can see that Jesus had a body in heaven before coming to earth.
Philippians 3:21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
I believe Jesus has always been God the Father with a body.
God made the plan for salvation to be through Jesus, and God made that plan before He created the world. God made Himself a body, the glorious Spiritual body of Jesus the Man First, and then made everything through Jesus.
Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-- all things have been created through Him and for Him.…
In heaven before coming to earth Jesus had a Spiritual body, the kind of body we will receive at the resurrection.
1 John 3:2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Revelation 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Jesus gave up that body and came to earth with a flesh body.
Philippians 2:7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Hebrews 10:5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;