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Originally Posted by OBW

That is not a fair assessment of what I said (or paraphrased from another). It only discusses the aspect of there being a "spirit" with man in this life. It does not address the "ghost" aspect of afterlife, the essence of God, or the manner in which we stand up and root for our favorite college sports team. Those are different meanings of the word "spirit." (Or at least I posit that as true.) How that one specific aspect/definition of spirit relates to the living body of a person in this life is a different question from how the word "spirit" or "spiritual" might relate to the word "body" when considering someone who has been raised from the dead and exhibits the characteristics that Jesus did after the resurrection.

I know nothing certain about ghosts or resurrected bodies. And I suspect you don't either. Propositions about such things seem to be pure speculation. We suppose that Paul knew something about them because we come to the Bible with the assumption that it is an infallible factual source. I don't recall any instance of Jesus telling Paul, "I have a spiritual body." Paul claims to have been a Pharisee. He probably learned about the resurrection from them. From his vision of Jesus he inferred that Jesus was a spiritual body, the first resurrected human being. Otherwise, Jesus would have been a mere ghost. The conclusion that he had witnessed the resurrected Christ put him in the company of the Christian witnesses of the resurrected Christ.