You are being arbitrary when distinguishing "scripture and history" from "handed down traditions". Taking the totality of scripture and reliable history does not infer Christ transformed from flesh to spirit. Body and spirit are ultimately inseparable. Christ did not cease being a man. He is still physical but in the glorified body it is not the kind of physical we are accustomed to (passing through locked doors, ascending, etc).
The resurrection of the dead, of which Christ was the "first fruits", can be literally translated "standing up in the midst of corpses". The Greeks were repulsed by this teaching, i.e. that the body is good and necessary in the life hereafter. But it is true, our identity is inseparable from our physical body. It is the ancient Gnostics, Platonists, and now the LGBTQ+ and transhumanists and neo Gnostics who deny embodiment, who want you to think that the physical body is merely an obstacle to overcome to attain to true self, or ascension, or enlightenment, or whatever label you want to give it. God is the God of the physical and spiritual and he once called it all good, and on the last day he will redeem and glorify his people in both body and soul, not transforming it into some immaterial ethereality.
You are being arbitrary when distinguishing "scripture and history" from "handed down traditions". Taking the totality of scripture and reliable history does not infer Christ transformed from flesh to spirit. Body and spirit are ultimately inseparable. Christ did not cease being a man. He is still physical but in the glorified body it is not the kind of physical we are accustomed to (passing through locked doors, ascending, etc).
The resurrection of the dead, of which Christ was the "first fruits", can be literally translated "standing up in the midst of corpses". The Greeks were repulsed by this teaching, i.e. that the body is good and necessary in the life hereafter. But it is true, our identity is inseparable from our physical body. It is the ancient Gnostics, Platonists, and now the LGBTQ+ and transhumanists and neo Gnostics who deny embodiment, who want you to think that the physical body is merely an obstacle to overcome to attain to true self, or ascension, or enlightenment, or whatever label you want to give it. God is the God of the physical and spiritual and he once called it all good, and on the last day he will redeem and glorify his people in both body and soul, not transforming it into some immaterial ethereality.
Well written
That's why Muslims gotta have the body.