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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 ...
- 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 . . .
preliminary, but necessary, to a fully evolved sense of the body in Christian thought and practice. 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. For instance, can we say anything about
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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...
Jun 18, 2024 · 4. We glorify God now in our bodies. Now, because of Christ’s work outside of us, in his human body — and because of his Spirit’s work in our own souls and bodies — we live to the glory of God. So 1 Corinthians 6:19–20 says to us in Christ: “You are not your own, for you were bought with a price.
We have one body, man's spiritual identity. It is incorporeal and exists as God's individual expression. Through the lens of Christian Science we find our true selfhood; our understanding advances, and identity individualizing the Christ-idea in its spiritual essence, form, nature, and substance comes gradually into focus. The constituents of ...
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The misconception of body as matter leaves us trying to fix an illusion, rather than seeing through it to the reality. But when we see the concept of body correctly as pure Spirit expressed, the human condition harmonizes with this perfect concept or reality. We call this healing, but revealing is probably a more accurate description.
