Was The Resurrection Of Christ Bodily Or Just Spiritual?

So what was the nature of the resurrection of Christ?  When the New Testament was written the idea of a bodily resurrection was absurd to the surrounding Greek culture.  The Greeks spoke of the immortality of the soul and viewed matter as evil.  They thought that salvation was found by the soul escaping from the body.  In our time the idea that Christ's resurrection was just as a spirit has been held by groups from the Jehovah's Witnesses to the liberals.   

(Luke 24:39) "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."  (ESV)  

Jesus had appeared to his disciples and they thought they had seen a spirit.  Jesus showed that his body was physical, "flesh and bones" and not a spirit.  In 1 Corinthians 15 Paul stressed that the resurrection of Jesus was not just his spirit going to heaven but that his body was raised from the dead.  

Paul also pointed out that over 500 people witnessed his bodily resurrection.  Also in 1 Corinthians 15:12-13 the phrase "resurrection of the dead" literally means "the standing up of dead ones."  The Apostle Paul proclaimed that if Christ is not raised bodily from the dead then your faith is futile, you have no hope, and there is no Christianity.  

The Bible plainly teaches that the resurrection of Christ was bodily and not just spiritual.  Jesus was victorious over sin, death, and the devil, accomplishing salvation for his people.