Do Biblical Unitarians believe Jesus rose and ascended in a "real" body?

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From the BU website -

He is the only man who is now the Mediator between God and mankind (1 Tim. 2:5).

For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim. 2:5

Clearly, there is no discrepancy between the understanding stated and the scripture

From the BU website -

He is the only man who will gather together all Christians to meet him “in the air” (1 Thess. 4:17) and give each one a new body like his own (Phil. 3:21). As the promised “seed” of the woman (Gen. 3:15), Jesus Christ will produce fruit after his kind, a race of people living forever.

He is the only man who will restore on a new earth the Paradise that the First Adam lost (1 Cor. 15:24-28)

Do Biblical Unitarians believe Jesus rose and ascended in a "real" body?

So yes, Jesus, the second/last Adam, was a man and still is. Only now he has life as the Father does and is made immortal.

He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. 1Pet 3:18

knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. Rom 6:9

Nothing here leads us to think Jesus will be anything other than what he died as - a man, was buried for 3 days as - a man, but raised as - a man, to eternal life in the spirit as - a man. Just as all faithful believers will be when they receive their change at Jesus' return. We will still be people but with eternal life simply because Jesus is the 'firstborn of many brothers'. As he is raised to new life in the spirit, so in like manner, will all the 'brothers' be newly born - not of flesh again, but of spirit.

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If Jesus is the firstborn of many, it is only logical that the many will follow his process. Otherwise he is not firstborn of any if the 'many' are reborn in some other way. He received his eternal life and entered the spirit world to sit next to God! At the resurrection, the saints will follow this pattern to be changed to spirit life and enter the Kingdom as we have been told - flesh cannot enter. Those who are 'born from above' will BE spirit (not just a deposit) and will join Jesus - seeing him as he is and being like him!

But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 1John 3:2

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