Quote Originally Posted by childofgod View Post

Jesus tells Mary, 3 days later, that he hadn't been to the Father yet..
well.....thats not really what he said...
Lets look and see what Jesus was actually talking about :

Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"


The thing to remember is that while some versions have the words, "Touch me not" this is an error.
Its an error because in our English it gives us the natural idea that Mary could not even touch the body of Jesus.
I have had to listen to whole sermons based on that error....on and on some guys go with this whole complected reason why Mary was not even allowed to touch Jesus.

All such sermons are based on error...


The truth is that Jesus tells Mary that she cant just hold on to him...and that she should not be afraid that he would suddenly disappear, rather he tells her that even their friends would be also able to see him .

So the idea is that Mary was hugging the stuffing out of Christ, and this is very easy to understand given the context in that he was stone cold dead a few moments ago.

So that is the first issue I wanted to clear up about the risen body of Christ.