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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. Bible Gateway interviewed Philip Yancey, who, along ...
Jun 27, 2024 · The Christian Church has for the past two thousand or so years affirmed (or at least assumed) that humans are comprised of two parts: a physical body and a non-physical soul. 1 Numerous texts in Scripture refer to the composition of human persons, though the biblical writers never explicitly address the topic. In other words, the biblical ...
- Your body is damaged by sin (vv. 9-11). Though sin begins in our souls, we sin in and with our bodies. That’s why Paul begins his Body Theology by confessing the sin that damages and even destroys our bodies.
- Your body is saved by God (v. 11). “And such were some of you” (past tense). You were that—but you are now this. You were defiled, damaged, destroyed, but now you are washed, sanctified, justified.
- Your body remains vulnerable (v. 12). Although he knows he has experienced a body-and-soul salvation, the apostle is conscious of his remaining spiritual and physical weakness and vulnerability.
- Your body is for the Lord (vv. 13-14). The apostle replaces a false slogan the Corinthians were using to abuse their bodies—“foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods”—with a true slogan to bless their bodies: “The body is . . .
- The Body
- The Soul
- The Heart
- The Intellect
We can draw some general inferences about the body and the soul from these accounts, which are corroborated throughout Scripture. First, there is no ethical inferiority of the body as distinct from the soul. The body is not “unspiritual.” Both body and soul are equally the gift of the Creator. The term “flesh” in the New Testament can be as in “fle...
The soul endures the death of the body: is it, then, immortal? Yes and no. Scripture points to its immortality, but it is not so immortal that even God could not end the life of a soul. But it is immortal because it is the will of God that it be so. Only God has necessary immortality; he is the source of the immortality of every immortal creature (...
The Bible often uses the term “heart” in a metaphorical sense to denote the center of a person’s self. As in “as a man thinks in his heart, so is he” and “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick” (Jer. 17:9). There are references to the reason (Isa. 1:18) and to will (2 Pet. 1:12) and to conscience (Rom. 9:1), understood as a ...
All acknowledge that the intellect has a two-fold role, as contemplative or theoretical on the one hand, which has the task of acquiring true beliefs about the world, and the practical on the other hand, in which the reason has the task of acquiring the knowledge the best way to gain a certain end. This is known as the practical reason. Such views ...
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 endorse monism—whether idealist, psychosomatic, or ...
May 10, 2013 · Modern biblical scholarship and theology take distance from the traditional view that the content of Scripture constitutes a plenary and enduring system of doctrine. Modern theology adopted the theistic naturalism of the enlightenment, that God acts in the world and has inspired Scripture entirely within and according to the natural order.
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It is easy for us to see our bodies as disconnected from our spirituality. Yet the Bible teaches us much about the purposefulness, value, and even sacredness of our bodies. Developing a biblical theology of our bodies provides crucial context for how we treat each other and how we engage numerous cultural questions.
