Hi Gina,
He was resurrected with a spiritual body which could manifest in a physical body.
Yes that's how I see it, so I looked up some Scriputre to help with this. When Jesus appeared as "flesh and bones" it was for the sake of the physical people He wanted to see Him and prove He was resurrected.
Luke 24:37 But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit.
v. 38 And he said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?
v. 39 See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have."
Another thing is He appeared as flesh and bone because His blood had already been poured out on the cross.
Mark 14:24 And He said to them, This is My blood of the New Covenant, which is poured out for many.
Acts 20:28 Therefore take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God which He has purchased with His own blood.
It was JESUS THE MAN, Who shed His blood, and that is why, when He appeared in a flesh form to His apostles, He was only "flesh and bone," as He had SHED HIS BLOOD.http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php?topic=280.0So Christ does appear to His disiciples as "flesh and bone," so they could see Him. But Christ was raised to glory as a "life giving Spirit" to rule in His kingdom.
1Co 15:50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
1Pe 1:21 those believing in God through Him, He who raised Him up from the dead and
gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.
1Co 15:44 It is sown a natural body;
it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
v. 45 Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.
1Co 15:49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
2Pe 1:11 For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
mercy, peace and love
Kat