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In dealing with a theology of the human body (or the human anything) some sense must be made of the Fall and Original Sin. This will highly color any statements about the human.
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Aug 6, 2019 · The marvelous human body holds endlessly fascinating secrets. The resilience of skin, the strength and structure of bones, the dynamic balance of muscles—our physical being is knit according to a pattern of stunning purpose. Consider how the human body is a window into biblical teaching.
I establish a theology of the body as a foundation for the study of human structure and function. I then discuss key repeating themes in the human body systems as evidence for design and offer suggestions for biblical integration in the study of these themes.
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Jun 27, 2024 · In 2 Corinthians 5:1-5 Paul discusses having a physical, earthly body (“earthly tent”) versus having a transformed, glorified body (“building from God, a house not made with hands”). While clothed in our earthly tent, we groan and are burdened, looking forward to being re-clothed in our new bodies.
- Neither Everything Nor Nothing
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- No Greater Dignity
Every right-thinking Christian will know that the body is not the crowning human experience (Rom. 8:5–8). But neither is the body nothing. It is far from nothing. In this passage Paul teaches us a theology of the human body as something glorious. For the Christian, his or her body has been made a sacred location of God’s redemptive presence in the ...
The gospel claims that our bodies—not just our souls, but our bodies, with all their appetites and drives, with all their smells and messes, with all their aches and pains, with all their sneezing and yawning—yes, our bodies are united to the living Christ. We are physical extensions of Christ in the modern world. So, for example, our legs are how ...
Could our bodies have any greater dignity? Can we now allow ourselves to trivialize our sexual behavior as of little consequence, as long as our hearts glow with love for the Lord? The Christian gospel creates strong sexual integrity not by despising the body but by honoring the body. Here is the apostle’s point in the rest of verse 15. I will summ...
Jan 9, 2019 · Christian discipleship acknowledges the importance of the body for a holistic response to God’s redemption for all of life. The biblical view shows a Christian’s body and soul as a sacred unit that demands responsible stewardship.
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The first section outlines a version of the historic ecumenical Christian approach to Scripture and theology and concludes that the biblical view of body and soul is both holistic and dualistic. The second section contrasts the theological anthropology of historic Christianity with modern approaches since Hobbes and Spinoza, many of which ...
