Easter is Sunday; Was Jesus resurrected bodily or spiritually?

The question is whether Jesus was resurrected bodily. The answer from Paul? No. He was resurrected Spiritually. From the Rev. Madison Shockley via Truthdig:

...Someone somewhere will quote I Corinthians 15:12 to us, “Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

According to the good Reverend, Paul anticipated this question as he wrote:

Verse 35 says, "But someone will ask, 'How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?''" You bet we want to know that! His answer to this question would be considered heresy today by fundamentalists and many conservative-traditional theologians. "It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body." Did I read that right? Paul just said there is no resurrection of the "physical body"! In spite of his opening homage to the received "gospel," his own theology essentially undoes any literal interpretation of the resurrection of the body.

If you really want to see why a literal interpretation of the Bible is nonsense, go read


Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

Then for a more theoretical view, take a look at this book that describes what language actually is and how it works. Hayakawa does not mention Biblical Inerrancy, but he carefully explains why nothing expressed in language can possibly be inerrant. Hayakawa originated the statement "The Map is not the territory."


Language in Thought and Action

So now the questions are (1) Did Jesus resurrect bodily or spiritually? Or (2) Does Dan Brown have it right? Did he not die, but instead got up and walked away, Married Mary and spent the rest of his life teaching in Egypt?

Then there is the meta-question - does the answer to the two questions above make any real theological difference to Christianity? Could it be that the Truths in the Christian Religion are embedded in the Christian traditions rather than in the truth or falisity of the events of the first century in Israel?

It is my personal belief that the questions matter a lot more than any possible answers.