There is also a serious moral problem. Some claim that Christ's appearances were merely "materializations" aimed at convincing the disciples of His reality but not His materiality. But Jesus said: "Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have" (Luke 24:27).

Jesus challenged Thomas to put his finger into the scar in His hand and to put his hand into the wound in His side and "stop doubting and believe" (John 20:27).

Given the identity of the scars with His preresurrection body, the only impression these words could have left on the disciples' minds was that Jesus was claiming to have resurrected in the same literal, material body in which He died. However, if He did not rise in this physical body, He was intentionally misleading His disciples. In short, either Jesus rose in the same material body in which He died, or else He lied.