While they were speaking of these things he himself stood in their midst.... But because they were terrified, and had become frightened, they were imagining they beheld a spirit. So he said to them: "Why are you troubled, and why is it doubts come up in your hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; feel me and see, because a spirit does not have flesh and bones just as you behold that I have.The teaching of the Watchtower Society, regarding the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, is that He was resurrected as a spirit.
Luke 24:36-39 NWT
"See my hands and my feet that it is I myself; feel me and see, because a spirit does not have flesh and bones just as you behold that I have."What Jesus is saying is: "I'm not a spirit, it really is me." He then invites them to examine His wounds in order to prove it.
And He made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Isaiah 52:9
Besides the verses already mentioned, is there any other Biblical proof that the Lord arose from death with the same body? Indeed there is!
After Jesus drove the moneylenders and animal traders from the temple He was quizzed by the Jews, they wanted to know by what authority He did these things. Now read the answer Jesus gave them:
"Break down this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."Look closely at what Jesus said: "Break down this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. These verses make it very clear that Jesus was referring to His own body, and He said that if they broke down this body, it (not a materialised look-alike) would be raised up in three days.
Therefore the Jews said:
"This temple was built in forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?"
But he was talking about the temple of his body. John 2:19-21 NWT.
Incidentally, who does Jesus say is going to raise up His body?
Yes! Jesus said He would raise up the same body which was crucified, but how could He do that if He became nonexistent, as the Watchtower Society teach?
Obviously the Watchtower Society is as wrong with this teaching as they are with their other teachings. At death we do not become nonexistent. Our soul, the real "us" who inhabited the body, leaves the earth behind.
Those of us who have accepted the The Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour, will go to Heaven to be with our Lord.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:7
In the New World Translation of the Bible, the anonymous "translators" have twisted many scriptures in order to make it comply with doctrines which the Watchtower Society teach.
The doctrines believed by Jehovah's Witnesses are not taught in the Bible, they are taught in the books and magazines produced by the Watchtower Society. They are not doctrines of God but doctrines of men.
It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commandments of men as doctrines. Matthew 15:9 NWT.