A Response To a Reader's Questions: Eternal Life Can Begin Today!

A reader poses a series of complex questions about Jesus’ resurrection, why did Jesus leave this plane after his resurrection, and physical immortality. Because of the complexity of the questions, I will just answer the first two questions and will take up the other parts in due course.

Questions: Did Jesus resurrect as a physical flesh body or did he transcend the material world altogether?

 

Answer:

Both. The historical records are clear: After Jesus’ death, dozens of Jesus movements sprung up. Many were started around 33 A.D. and include followers who claimed to be eyewitness of the risen Jesus: James and Judas Thomas (both brothers of Jesus), Paul, and Peter (also, there are several others mentioned in The Acts of the Apostles). Collectively, there is no doubt many of Jesus’ followers believed he died and is resurrected because they witnessed with their own eyes the risen Jesus!

To the second part of your question “did he transcend the material world altogether”: Yes, Jesus left this physical plane after his resurrection. Why? 

Here we must be very careful. As with many kinds of events, there are many possible explanations of why something occurred. Thus, these kinds of questions lend themselves to speculation as to why Jesus left.

If I may be so bold as to offer my best guess: The purpose of Jesus’ ministry is to open to mankind the possibility of returning to unity with God. By Jesus’ own words, he promises eternal life to those who follow him. Please note that the Gospel of Thomas was composed after Jesus’ resurrection and the Gospel of Thomas records the words of the resurrected Jesus; in other words, the Gospel of Thomas records the words of the “living Jesus” –the risen Jesus. After Jesus’ resurrection, I believe Jesus spoke with nearly 500 brethren, broke bread with many, and helped his brother Judas Thomas record his sayings.

The problem is the peasant followers from Galilee were in no position to make the shifts into Immortal consciousness. They were largely illiterate. They had all been Jews and now they had to make sense of what Jesus was saying. They were unable to do so. But the physical act of resurrection from the dead created a possibility which had never before existed for mankind: The spirit can be married with the body in unity with Jesus. The result of this transformation is both physical and spiritual immortality. The Immortal spirit cannot exist without the body.

Continuing this line of reasoning: After Jesus left the physical plane, his followers were completely mystified about what he was teaching. What to make of someone who shared the Good News of God's Kingdom and who is resurrected from the dead?


It was only in 1945 with the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library that the stranglehold of the Catholics was broken and it became clear the 27 books of the New Testament are fraudulent. They were written by the Catholics. The Catholics destroyed all the original sayings of Jesus. The Catholics were bold enough to defy God’s commandment to keep the 7^th day Holy and by their own authority (Satan’s authority) changed God’s Holy Day to Sunday. So the Catholics are the representatives of Satan and anyone who accepts the 27 books they fraudulently composed (the “New Testament”) is unwittingly following Satan.

The greatest lie the Catholics invented: there is conscious existence after death. They invented the concept of a place of eternal torment for those who disobey the leaders of the Church. They promise some kind of heavenly abode for those who accept their lies. If you reject the concept of a literal hell, then you reject the Catholic Church since it is based upon this fear. Moreover, you are logically forced to reject the New Testament since the Catholics wrote it.

The Thomas Immortality Project is being used by God to share the Good News: Eternal Life is Now! I am humbled to believe that God would use me—the greatest of all sinners—to restore Jesus’ original message: Follow me and you will not taste death.