Jesus, the tent?

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Bro.  Shaw:
 I'm not trying to be contentious at all,....

  Mike: 
 Before we even get started, I want to say that I don't think you are trying
to be contentious.

 Bro.  Shaw:
 ...but I don't perceive Christ, the man, as only a shell that was animated by
the spirit. 

 Mike:
 I will also try to relate my perceptions based on the scriptures.  First let
me tell you why I believe that the thing that God dwelt in on earth, the
instrument of our redemption was just that, a body.
Luke 1:35
35	And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon
thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that
holy *thing* which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. 

 This passage does not refer to Mary's son as a person, but more exactly a
"thing."  I personally believe that the word "thing" was used to differentiate
between God and the lamb that takes away the sins of the world.  God's mother
was not Mary, but the temple that God chose to dwell in was mothered by Mary. 
 
Heb 10:5
5	Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering
thou wouldest not, but a *body* hast thou prepared me:

 Just a body?  Yes, but to us who needed a perfect lamb it was a special body,
a body who's father was God. 
 
John 2:19-21
19	Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this *temple*, and in three days
*I* will raise it up.
20	Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and
wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21	But he spake of the *temple* of his *body*.

 Here we see Jesus himself making a distinction between His spirit and his
body.  He likens it to a temple, a temporary dwelling place.  He does not as
some have said speak of it as an inseparable unit, but as two distinct parts.
Later we learn that the spirit of God raised Christ from the dead. (Gal.1:1) 
 
 Who raised Christ from the dead?  Christ's Spirit, or the Father?  Yes, it is
the same spirit.
 If Jesus had two spirits, what happened to the "human" spirit when Jesus was
in the tomb?  Where is that spirit now?  Where was that spirit before Christ's
birth?
 
 Mike