ABSTRACT
Apostle Paul personal revelation of 'seeing the lord', was of a newly constituted 'spiritual' entity, now housed in a 'dwelling from heaven', and distinct from the flesh and blood earthly body. Paul's revelatory christophany, standing in continuity with other post-resurrection appearances, leaves the physical body of Christ to one side, which, hence, does not feature in any of Paul's statements on the afterlife. In comparing Paul's resurrection accounts, which appear to have no interest in detailing the restoration of Jesus' corpse, with that of Mark, we see an interesting overlap, for Mark, too, provides no account of the resurrected body. The 'physicality' of Jesus' resurrection body will, of course, be later enhanced both in Luke's Gospel and that of John. The conviction that Jesus existed as some kind of divine being inhabiting an illusory 'body' which had no real flesh nor blood needed to be countered with some urgency.
