If we skip over the clues known throughout the ANE, and go with our own desired opinions, does it make us dogmatic? Any being that takes on physical form in order to experience the physical universe is going to be physical. Many cultures and religions and naturalist for that matter do not see ghost as just an imagined form to make a literative point.
There is a spirit and ghost property in the physical. God forbids that we practice the act of calling forth those who are dead into the physical. God does not indicate the practice is just a figurative literative device. The reason there has been such a heated debate since Jesus actually rose from the dead, is that there are so many accepted views on the subject.
Why did Jesus point out he could not be touched? Was it because he was unclean? That does not make any sense. Was there a needed time, to rule out resuscitation allowed by the Jews. We do not know if Jesus’ body was brought back to life as soon as they rolled the stone and sealed the tomb. Caused quite a stir though that the body miraculously was gone even after Roman soldiers were gauranteed to prevent that. So Mary did not even recognize him, as her last memory was a dead body, severely beaten, and crucified on a cross.
It was the sound of his voice calling her name that allowed recognition, but he demanded not to be touched. There was no evidence in this form to show he had been crucified. A ghost in physical view was not a resurrected body. It was an intermediate state while still being dead. Jesus had yet to be raised from the dead in his restored completed spiritual body able to exist in the physical. He also appeared the same day to two witnesses that even talking to him did not jog their memory, it was not until he broke bread and gave it to them to eat, that they realized who he was. Then his body vanished from view. This is not a physical body, if it can not be recognized on sight. It was only days later that Jesus had a body that had the marks of the cross, and could be touched, and could intake food.
If none of the intermediate state was a literal event, it still should have indicated in a figurative way that proves Jesus was no longer dead. There is no ghosts state unless one is dead. Being in ghost form is not a resuscitated body. After Jesus returned from the presence of God, he did appear in a glorified and physical body that represented in a special way what marks humans gave to him, in carrying out in obedience the will of God. I also believe that Paul reasoned the new form that Jesus in the physical now appeared in was the restored form that Adam lost. Our current form is corrupted from the effect of sin and death. He likened the burial of Jesus in the tomb, as how all those in Christ would be placed into the ground, but would be raised at some point an incorruptible body without the effects of sin and death.
The part of us that is eternal and not physical (the ghost state?) Goes immediately to heaven, upon physical death. I think the physical bodily resurrection is the debatable issue. Is it an event yet to come or does it happen right away and the old “shell” if not lost to the physical via cremation or completely turned to any unrecognizable form, is of no importance at all like a seed is no longer important to the new plant?