Physical Body or a Spiritual Body

"For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit."
1 Peter 3:18

"Jesus answered them, 'Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.' They replied, 'It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?'  But the temple he had spoken of was his body."
John 2:19-21

Argument: 

• John 2:19-21 says that Jesus will be raised bodily from the dead but 1 Peter 3:18 says He was raised Spiritually, not physically. This is a contradiction.

Rebuttal:

• You have to look at the context of 1 Peter 3:18:
  
  
  • • "17 For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.  18 For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, in order that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; 19 in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, 20 who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.”
      
      
• Scholars are not in agreement as to the correct interpretation of this particular passage
  
  
• It is possible that between His death and resurrection, Jesus went and made a proclamation of His victory on the cross to those fallen angels who were being held in prison.
  
  
• If you were to take the "Spirit Only" interpretation, than you would have a contradiction with other verses in the bible like John 2:19-21 and Luke 24:39, and this would be improper hermeneutics. And those passages are far more clear than the 1 Peter passage in question
  
  
• Different versions of the Bible translate the passage differently. Some say “made alive by the Spirit” and others say "made alive in the spirit.” In the Trinitarian view, it is quite possible that Jesus was made alive by the Holy Spirit. 
  
  
• Romans 8:23 claims that it is not just our spirits that are redeemed, but also our bodies
  
  
• 1 Peter doesn't say that Jesus was raised a Spirit Creature, but that He was raised in the spirit. And to find out what that means, all you need to do is use proper exegesis and read 1 Corinthians 15:35-45
  
  

  • • ³⁵ But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” ³⁶ How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. ³⁷ When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. ³⁸ But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. ³⁹ Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. ⁴⁰ There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. ⁴¹ The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor. ⁴² So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; ⁴³ it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; ⁴⁴ it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.