Jesus ,the bible says , was resurrected a flesh and blood man.
So how did Jesus enter the closed and locked room?
On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. John 20:19-20. NIV
Ok. How did our boy wonder achieve this feat?
Stephen, Stephen, Stephen, allow me to try to explain it to you.
If true intelligence involves the ability to view and understanding widely different things from multiple different perspectives, an aptitude for grasping a wide range of truths, relationships, and meanings, and the capacity for abstract and symbolic thought, then it follows logically that your repeated insistence that the Bible cannot be understood literally, is an unintelligent claim.
The simple fact is, well over two billion people have been graced with a mind that can grasp the intellectual constructs of the symbolism of Christian spirituality and transcendence, and we understand. You are repeatedly telling us that you are intellectually incapable of understanding such things, which is fine, but it’s not your fault and consequently, there is no reason to be so angry about it all the time.
If you just aren’t intellectually capable of grasping the symbolism of the story that despite the fact that the apostles had locked the door of faith out of fear and doubt, they had an experience of Christ that overcame their fear and doubt, then I just don’t think anyone can dumb it down far enough for you to understand.
There is no reason for you to always get lost in the pettiness and divisiveness of Biblical detail, here is everything a person of your diminished cognitive aptitude really needs to know.
First, the Bible is a book of widely different perspectives utilizing many different literary genres, including history and prophecy, poetry and love songs, allegories and parables, none of which is conducive to any kind of "literal" translation. Try to understand that the authors of the New Testament were not detached biographers or historians, they were writing about their religious experience of Jesus years after his death.
It doesn’t matter that you can’t grasp the symbolic significance of spiritual things like the Incarnation or the Resurrection. All you really need to know is that the things Jesus did and said caused His contemporaries to think of Him in completely new dimensions and that there was something to this man's life that caused those who knew it best to reach the conclusion that it was divine in nature.
Your divisive contentions about whether or not he actually rose from the grave in bodily form just do not matter to me. It is enough for me to know that his spirit jumped dramatically to life after his death and that because of this he gave millions and millions of people hope that they never had before.
Please understand, it’s not my intent to denigrate people who have as low an intellectual capacity as you, and for you and others like you, denigrate mean “put down”.