Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 108
108. MESSIAH'S PHYSICAL BODY. The Christians also believe that the Messiah has no body as God has no form and that when he came into the world, he took a physical form for the sake of mankind; that in reality the son has no form as the Father has none, even as the Holy. Ghost has none. . When he came into the world to offer himself up on the Cross for the sons of men he took a bodily form. In other words, taking of a physical body was for the sole purpose of hanging by the Cross to atone for the sins of mankind, so that he may suffer death once, as death is the crop of sin, and that since he took up the sins of others, death had become inevitable. But when death had come upon him, the scheme adopted to save mankind had found its implementation. If, therefore, the Christian claim is a sound one, it was necessary that the Messiah should have no physical body when he rose again, for, the purpose of God had been fulfilled, the sins of mankind had been remitted, and now the son stood no more in need of a body as he had become perfect like God the Father. But it appears from the New Testament that even after the incident of the Cross, when, according to them the Messiah rose from the dead, he had his physical body and ascended the heaven or, according to other versions, disappeared from the summit of the mountain with the same body. In other words, as the New Testament would have us believe, the Messiah not only rose from the sepulchre with his physical body but that he ascended into heavens with the same while his physical form had no significance any more. So long as he had not come into the world, he had no body. He assumed a physical form as a temporary measure for the sole purpose of taking upon himself the sins of mankind. Once the object was served there was logically no need to support the body any further. But