Stop misreading the Bible: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday today and forever" doesn't mean he ever had a physical body

I find Christians who insist that because Jesus Christ was a physical human and the Bible says, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever" (Hebrew 13: 8 NKJV), he must have had a physical body in eternity past, just as he stands now in his scarred, resurrected and glorified physical body in Heaven. After all, they say, we were created in his physical likeness and he is God, "who changes not."

But Hebrews 13: 8 has nothing to do with Jesus ever having a physical body here, there, or anywhere. The point the verse actually makes is better expressed from the original Aramaic language, translated by Victor Alexander: 

"Except expend everything you have for the sake of mercy. For the Lord has said, 'I shall neither leave you, nor loosen my hold on you.' And we have this assurance as He has said, 'My Lord is my backer, I submit to no one, what can the human being do to me?'

"Remember your leaders in ministry, those who spoke to you of the Manifestation of God. Imitate their relentless service and proclaim their faith. Eashoa the Messiah (Jesus Christ) is the fulfillment of yesterday, today and forever" (Hebrews 13: 5-8, parenthesis mine).

The Power and Wisdom of God, God's manifestation, is constantly present and conscious of what is going on--powerful to be our backer when we expend everything we have for mercy's sake. Ancient leaders had faith to expend their resources in relentless service, because the Manifestation (the effectual power and wisdom) of God is the fulfillment of God's promise to never leave nor loosen his hold on them.

So, because God's promise is constantly fulfilled by his Manifestation, we ought to have like faith to expend everything we have for the sake of mercy:

"The Manifestation, Eashoa the Messiah (which is the power and the wisdom of God--life), is the FULFILLMENT OF GOD'S PROMISE, the same yesterday, today and forever."

Yes, I find life to be the power and the wisdom of God manifest and effectual in life. God's life-force is light, life and love all wrapped up in one. It is powerful to effect and conscious to talk and advise. It is conscious of our imaginings and forms our day accordingly. If you can "see" your day and remember your imaginings, you may hear the vocabulary of God: "This is in response to that."

Learn the language. If the day is response to "that," create the "thats" that you want life to form. As the world's most interesting man says, "Imagine well, my friend."