Katzpur, I guess based on what you said in reply to my last post that we do agree on a lot as regards the meaning of the resurrection. Going back though to what you said about a physical resurrection, there I have to respectfully disagree. It is true that in some regards the body in which Jesus appeared to his disciples did seem physical. That is, he ate food with them, and they touched him, and of course could converse with and see him. Then there are also some aspects of the resurrected Jesus that go beyond what is typical of a physical body. The point that Jesus' disciples on the road to Emmaus didn't recognize him for a long time was already brought out. Another point that is that Jesus would suddenly appear and disappear. That capacity is more characteristic of a spirit than a physical body. Jesus also ascended in front of the eyes of his disciples towards the sky. Okay, it could be said that it was the glorified spiritual body that Paul was talking about, so perhaps that body has attributes that we don't. If so though, it stretches the meaning of physical so much that it almost loses meaning to use the word. I believe instead that when the disciples saw Jesus, they were seeing him not with physical eyes, but rather with spiritual eyes. When they heard him speaking to them it was not through their physical ears. When they touched him, they were touching him with their own spiritual bodies, so that he seemed substantial. It is possible that other non-believers may not have been able to see Jesus at all, and as far as I recall Jesus appears exclusively to his disciples after his resurrection. Looking at similar cases in the Bible involving angels, which appeared to, ate with, and wrestled with humans, we know that in essence angels are spiritual beings. I know that many believe that the angels actually take on physical bodies in these kinds of cases, but I believe instead that at times spiritual beings can take on some of the attributes of physical beings, without actually being physical.