ViceGrip. Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe that "Christ's body evaporated into a gas while in the tomb". That teaching does not appear in any of their publications. Those sound like your words.

I love the high negative rating. Keep it up. It means JW’s are at least looking at the question. I wonder why the question is receiving negative reviews, but no rebuttals. I can only ask, would anyone possessing the truth outside of the watchtower organization come in here and rate this a negative question? I think not. The question is directed to JW’s in the JW category. I believe that it is receiving negatives from JW's that are offended that this information is being exposed and the fact that they knew nothing of it. I understand that they must be facing an internal battle knowing that Jehovah’s Witnesses themselves are a kind and loving people as a whole (that was never in question), but learning that the group of men in NY aren’t truthful and maliciously misleading! I didn't make this stuff up. It's in your literature! It's what your organization was founded upon. I pray, open your eyes! Know the biblical Jesus, and not the man made one! God Bless!

It's a VERY good question because they SHOULDN'T believe that. After all, speaking of his body, Jesus said "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up." Not a virtual body, not an avatar or a hologram, spirit or ghost or phantom.

I am not a JW and I don't claim to be an expert on their doctrine. However, I question your sources on this assertion. To begin with, let me just right this. I have a number of problems with the New World Translation of the Bible. (For those that aren't aware, this is the English translation that the JW's use.) However, I think that the following passage is important here: 36 While they were speaking of these things he himself stood in their midst [[and said to them: “May YOU have peace.”]] 37 But because they were terrified, and had become frightened, they were imagining they beheld a spirit. 38 So he said to them: “Why are YOU troubled, and why is it doubts come up in YOUR hearts? 39 See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; feel me and see, because a spirit does not have flesh and bones just as YOU behold that I have.” 40 [[And as he said this he showed them his hands and his feet.]] 41 But while they were still not believing for sheer joy and were wondering, he said to them: “Do YOU have something there to eat?” 42 And they handed him a piece of broiled fish; 43 and he took it and ate it before their eyes. Luke 24:36-43 (New World Translation) In this translation, as in the King James versions which I use, Jesus went to a lot of trouble to prove that he did have a physical body. Assuming that the JW's do take this as the word of God, which I have no reason to believe that they don't, then it is hard for me to believe that they deny the physical resurrection of Jesus. Additionally, it is my understanding they do not believe that spirits have any awareness of their own. So, once again, this belief is not compatible with your contention that they don't believe in a physical resurrection. Therefore, keeping this in mind, I have to question your sources for this alleged belief. Did you actually get this directly from the publications from which you claim they came or did you get them from some non-JW publication that claims to be giving factual information about what they teach? If it is the latter case, then don't trust your source. It is easy to take paragraphs out of context so as to make someone seem to be saying something completely opposite of what they are actually saying. I know that from first hand experience because there are those that do this to my own religion. With out having the full text from which the cited passages were taken, it would be impossible to do more than speculate on what the authors might really have been saying. So, I will refrain from doing so. Again, since I am not a JW, I can't give any authoritative statement about what they do believe with respect to the resurrection. So, I would be interested in hearing from an actual JW as to just what they do believe with respect to this.

because they have been told to believe it. They are the same as all believers in any faith, what is told to them, regardless of truth or possible truth, or obvious falsehood, they will believe. They arent the only ones to believe in probable falsehoods, but they need to have a strong base on which to allow their needs to believe.

I believe that they are deceived by the devil into denying what is pretty much the foundation of the Christian faith and what makes Christianity unique: the ressurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Although I am not so sure that they believe that His body evaporated into gas, I have read that they do not believe in His bodily ressurrection. The Bible says in Romans 10:9: "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." You see, belief in His ressurrection is essential to our salvation. What kind of Saviour would The Lord Jesus Christ be if He were dead? The Word of God is clear that He lives today. Thank you and God bless you!

Answer your own question?? At the Passover meal, the Israelites were told to consume the whole lamb. They were to leave nothing! [Ex12:3-10] What was this significance? This lamb that was consumed, pre-figured Jesus physical body! [Joh 1:29] When Jesus died, just as the literal lamb, he sacrificed [gave up] his fleshly body...which God disposed of entirely, in an undisclosed manner. At Biblegateway, 'Todays New International Version' at 1 Pet.3:18 reads, "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit." Clearly, he was resurrected as a spirit being. When he desired to be seen, he materialized a human body...a different human body! This is why Mary did not recognize him when she saw him. [John 19:14-16] This also explains vs. 19, when the disciples were gathered 'in a locked' room, and Jesus appeared. This is why his own disciples did not recognize him...until after a lengthy conversation, at which point "he disappeared". Lu 24:25-31!! Mark 16:12 states that Jesus appeared to them in different forms. He was flesh, died, and was raised a spirit. This is why Paul made the comment, at 2 Cor. 5:16 NAS-" Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer." As for 'eating'.. Two angels materialized into human men, met with Lot, and ATE with him. [Gen.19:1-3] Although they were angels, they ate when in fleshly form, as this is a function of a fleshly person. So, too, when Jesus materialized a body. If Jesus Fleshly body was not destroyed...what was sacrificed?

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They are decieved. To invalidate Christ's physical resurrection is to deny that he conquered death and that he is the way to everlasting life. If he arose as spirit it makes him only a man which is the goal of the enemy.

[Although quite a while back, you admitted to using a 'false' statement regarding 'gas' in your question. Does no attempt by you, to 'edit' and correct your question, indicate it was done so, deliberately?] The answer to this question is an answer to a straight foreword question, "What is the definition of 'soul'?" This understanding is paramount to comprehending whether Jesus' resurrection was physical or spiritual. This requires a two part understanding. 1) How the Bible defines 'soul' 2) Is the soul indestructible. 1) What is a soul? According to 'Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, a Hebrew Dictionary', 'soul' is translated from the Hebrew word "neh'-fesh", the Greek word for soul is 'psy'khe'. 'Soul' literally means 'breather'. [Synonyms are creature, being, life, and person.] . After mans body was made from 'earths' elements, the Creator 'blew into his nostrils the breath of life', and when man began to 'breath', it reads: "...and man 'became' a living soul." He 'became' a soul!! Therefore, according to the 'bible', man was not 'given' a soul... man IS a soul! [ Gen.2: 7] The 'New Catholic Encyclopedia [1967] Vol. XIII, pp 449, 450 reads: "There is no division of body and soul in the O[ld T[estament]. The term nephesh, though translated by our word soul, 'never' means soul as distinct from the body, or the individual person..." That man IS a soul, is unique to the Bible! 2) Is the soul indestructible? Unlike mainstream Christianity...the Bible is clear that the 'soul' can die! Ez. 18:4,20 clearly states that the 'soul' that sins WILL die. Matt.10:28 states that God "can destroy 'both' soul [psy·khen´] and body in Gehenna." This shows that neither nephesh nor psy·khe´ refers to something immortal or indestructible. Understanding that man IS a soul, and he can die...or cease to exist, is critical. This means that the living human Jesus...was also a soul. He did NOT have a soul...but 'was' a soul. One could say, Jesus was murdered...or Jesus' 'soul' was murdered, it means the same thing! Where was he during this time? He was in 'Sheol' [Hebrew] for parts of three days, before being resurrected. 'Sheol' is the grave. Christian Churches teach it is the same place of torment as 'hell'. Yet, one might reason, why would a suffering man in terrible pain, such as Job, ask God to place him in 'Sheol' to be 'relieved' from his pain... if it IS a place of torment? Job 14:3 [Sheol is rendered 'grave' here]. If Jesus HAD a soul and his body died, if that soul continued to exist, then or coarse the living soul could not be resurrected, as it did not die. In this erroneous scenario, the physical body would have to be resurrected. But that would mean Jesus really did not really die, nor would it explain what was sacrificed! However, Jesus BEING a soul, changes things dramatically! When he died, he joined all others who had died before him, and entered the grave, [Sheol], in an unconscious sleep-like death. His spirit, or life force was put out, and he was in a state of non-existence. [Ps. 146:4; Ecc.9:5,10] Jesus, however, was unlike the others who died previous to him, as they were born into sin, and Jesus was sinless. Therefore, under Gods rule " the wages of SIN is death", and since Jesus did not sin, he could have rightly reclaimed his physical body, and returned to earthly life. Instead, he presented his sinless blood and body to his Father, as a sacrifice. It was disposed of in an undisclosed manner! Therefore, his fleshly body WAS the sacrifice Jesus made for mankind. The resurrection of Jesus could ONLY be as a spirit being, otherwise nothing would have been sacrificed, or repurchased. Jesus, as a spirit, could materialize a body of flesh, nail holes and all, at his discretion. Man dies because Adam's disobedience brought sin into the world. And just as One man condemned mankind to eternal death...'one' perfect man [a second Adam, 1 Cor.15:45] could reverse the effects of sin for all mankind. [1 Cor.15:21, 22; Rom.5:19;] The disobedience of our earthly "Father" resulted in his death. That left mankind 'Fatherless'....children in need of adoption. Another perfect man, Jesus, came and 'bought us' by taking Adams place. [Eph.1:5] Now Jesus has become the adoptive father of approved mankind... forever. Which is why he can be referred to as our 'eternal father'. [Isa 9:6]

Well, that'll teach me not to quote from memory when I'm tired! It's Colossians 2:9 that says "for in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." Not just that God dwells in Christ, not just the fullness of God, not just ALL the fullness of God, not just all the fullnmess of the Godhead, but all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. I don't know what else St. Paul could have said to tell us that Jehovah completely indwells Christ, making Christ's body the temple of God and making God incarnate in Him. But I'm sorry about the misquote. All I've read are quotations from the court records concerning "miracle wheat" and Russell's lie about knowing Greek--he didn't even know the alphabet. Either in court or elsewhere he was asked whether he knew Hebrew and he didn't even know that you open the Hebrew Bible from the back side. So no, I don't consider myself beaten by your assertions that he paid back the money; you'd have to get documentation trumping Walter Martin's.

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If you cant answer the question attack the messanger! Luke 24:36-53 NAS Sums up the resurection. Its kind of hard to find out what the Jehovah Witnesses believe about the resurrection. I never could get an answer, just indignety. It appears that they explain this "resurrection" by using parts of two verses. 1 Peter 3:18 says " Being put to death in the flesh,but quickened by the Spirit." 1 Corinthians 15:44 says "It is sown a natural body: it is raised a spiritual body. They apparantly take the 'A" from 1 Corinthians and the spirit from 1 Peter, and say that Christ rose as a spirit. They teach that this spirit is an angel which is the recreated Son (Michael). Christ was completely anniliated after His death?

I was raised as a JW, and although I no longer follow their way, and I have problems with some of their beliefs, this is not what they believe. The first time I ever heard anyone anywhere suggest that the body of Christ "evaporated into a gas while in the tomb," was when I read your question.