Jesus is physically alive. He has even shown me this personally. He has a physical human body. In between dying and rising from the dead, he still existed, otherwise there would be nothing for God to bring back to physical life. Yes, he has immortality. “I was dead and behold I am alive forever” he says. He is the resurrection. He is the life. And at one point, for a few days, he was truly dead in the same sense others are dead, his spirit left his body and was taken into the place of the dead. The body of Jesus was inanimate at that time, like any other human dead body. For a few days it was in a tomb. It would have decayed if God had left it there. His spirit continued until God raised the body making it a resurrection body (we do not yet know fully what it is except that it can be touched and can eat food) and God let that spirit of Jesus return to his body, and the resurrection was revealed to disciples. He continues like this till today, and so forever. He is truly marvellous, but not just for his own benefit but for those who believe in him too, who are part of him united with him in baptism into his name, his death, his resurrection. The resurrection is for us. While we believe in him and hold fast to his teachings. Jesus is alive from the dead. Resurrection. He was dead and now he lives. He is alive forever. We might want to make it more complicated than this, but that would detract from what we need. We need resurrection. He is that resurrection. This is the eternal life truth we need for living forever.
