When the men returned from Emmaus, they found the eleven and some others together. They reported that the Lord had appeared to Peter (cf. 1 Cor. 15:5).
Then Jesus appeared to them as well (John tells us Thomas was not with them). He showed them his hands and feet and encouraged them to touch him. To show them that he was not just a spirit, he asked for fish to eat.
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An interesting puzzle is to coordinate Luke's depiction of Jesus with Paul in 1 Corinthians 15. Luke tells of Jesus wanting to prove that he had flesh and bones. Meanwhile, Paul is strong on the resurrection involving a body, but says that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. The typical solution is to suggest that Jesus' resurrection body looked like flesh and blood and was definitely a body in continuity with his earthly body (it had nailprints and such), but it was not literally flesh and blood.
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Brian Scramlin and I went to Southern Baptist Theologically Semniary two weeks ago, and he said that two of your books were in the library. Glory be to God, the Baptists are on the road to Redemption! (even though that is my tradition, I still think it's funny because its true...or maybe just funny).
I imagine they were the ones on Hebrews and Philo, so nothing that will shake the theological foundations of baptistdom... ;-)
I just sent off of a preliminary proposal for an "Arminian Commentary on Romans" to a publisher. Now that would shake the foundations! Ha!
Plus the Arminian Commentary would make it to my library, for there is a huge gap of works bt Wesleayans on Romans. I wonder why that is? What are we afraid of...or what are we ignorant of?
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