The Doctrine & Covenants flatly affirms that Jesus has His body still (Doctrine & Covenants 130:22). This is in line with biblical teaching that sees Jesus as having been resurrected, retaining that body, appearing to His disciples for forty days, and then ascending into heaven (Luke 14:16, 39; John 5:21, 28; Acts 1:9; Romans 8:23; 1 Corinthians 15:4–6; 1 Peter 3:22). One religious group, The Jehovah’s Witnesses, deny this teaching and say that Christ was merely resurrected with a spiritual body and not a physical one.¹¹³ They would be the only ones, other than those that deny the reality of the Resurrection of Jesus altogether, who believe that Jesus does not still hold this body.

That mainstream Christians affirm that Jesus still has His body creates a contradiction. Mainstream Christians teach that God exists at least partly outside of space and time. He is an omnipresent, immaterial being that fills the immensity of space and everything outside of it. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are three persons that join in the metaphysical and ontological oneness of God. So how can God be an immaterial being and also a material, corporeal one in Jesus?

Latter-day Saints resolve this contradiction by restoring knowledge of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost as material beings.

Latter-day Saint understandings of God resolve deep problems in traditional Christian thinking on this issue and correlatively the deep, personal relationship that all mankind were meant to have with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.