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Jesus spoke to Nicodemus of being 'Born Again' or 'Born of the Spirit' (See also NT clues on virtues as the mystery of the Kingdom of God) Jesus came to usher in the Age of the Holy Spirit and in this context came preaching the Kingdom of God. The God Jesus preached was good. The Holy Spirit is truly God, and his fruit are the Virtues. Where Paul speaks of the Fruit of the Spirit, the word he uses in the original Greek is KARPOS. KARPOS can be translated 'birthings'. The word is used of Jesus being 'the fruit of Mary's Womb', and 'the fruit of David's loins'. This realted to the reality of Jesus physical body. So if the Holy Spirit has fruit, and these fruit are the virtues, and if we are to be born again of the Holy Spirit, it follows that our new bodies are to be comprised of these virtues. How does this work? First we need to ask what a body is. Without getting too technical we can say that a body provides an individual or collection of entities with an discrete mode for interfacing with others. A physical body enables me to interact with the physical world and those within that realm, a spiritual body enables me to interact with the spiritual world and those within that realm. The spiritual realm we are interested in is the Virtues. If my physical hand comes into the same 4 dimensional time space as another physical body I make contact with the person whose body that is. If my spiritual body is resonating with the same multidimensional virtues as another spiritual body, I make contact with the person whose body that is. Whereas in 'physical' time space I own my molecules, and so know them intimately, in the Virtues, stretching out from my conception point, I share the grid according to the virtues I know. In Christ that stretching out takes on the dimension of flight through the realm of the Virtues through God's free gift of the Holy Spirit. In the New Testament the concept of the Spiritual Body is also discussed under Clothing of Virtues and the Concept of a dwelling or temple. The body of Christ both contains and fills the Virtues. It is in him we live and move and have our being.
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