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That statement forces a false dichotomy by misdefining "spiritual". And it causes your argument to fail. And it separates what Scripture consistently joins.His kingship is therefore incarnational (not spiritual), even though the location of that reign is presently heavenly rather than earthly.
The incarnation is profoundly spiritual because the definition of spiritual regarding the incarnation is "of/by the Spirit". The incarnation is explicitly the work of the Spirit (Luke 1:35) "Spiritual" in the context of amil and the current reign of Christ from heaven does not mean "non-bodily". And a person cannot successfully or even reasonably redefine the meaning of a term to mean something other than the way the one using it, is defining it.
Scripture itself does not divide "incarnational" = bodily, human and "spiritual as being non-bodily or Spirit only.
The Son becomes incarnate by the Spirit
The son ministers in the power of the Spirit
The Son is raised by the Spirit
The Son reigns and gives the Spirit
You are trying to protect the idea that Christ's kingship must be exercised through his human nature as the sole operative category. The problem with that is it isolates Christ's humanity from the Spirit's role and also from his divine nature.
And 1 Cor 15:44 breaks your argument. "It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.? A body. Yet called spiritual. "Spiritual" does not mean "non-bodily". It means Spirit-empowered, Spirit-governed.
