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Christ was seen risen by His apostles; He spent time with them, taught them, ate with them. However, many times when Christ appeared to His disciples after His crucifixion, they did not recognize Him. How could this be? Wouldn't they have recognized Him if He appeared to them with His physical body? Remember that Paul says that he was a witness to the Resurrection, and yet He only saw a bright light. Could it be that Christ's appearances after the Resurrection were spiritual experiences, such as Paul describes? A reference to Christ in Hebrews reads Who in the days of his flesh, indicating a distinction between his body of flesh, which He had in the days of his flesh (now past), and his spiritual body, which is the condition in which He now exists.
(12:13)
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