What about your body?

Our society has cast off God. One very obvious result is that we have lost what it means to be human. The nature of God and the nature of mankind may be the two most important questions of our time. The Bible teaches that human beings are God’s images (Gen 1:27; 9:6). That means God created us to reflect His likeness in and through our human natures. Our natures have two parts: soul and body. Classical Christianity said that the soul is the “form of the body,” meaning that the soul is the animating, organizing, and forming principle of the human body. It is made for the human body. As such, the soul is not made to exist without the body, even though it can do so temporarily, if the body dies. Without the body, the soul is an incomplete human. This is why when Christ returns, He will rejoin our souls to glorified bodies, and we will live forever in the new heavens and the new earth, body and soul together (1 Cor 15:42-44; Phil 3:21). If the soul is the form of the body, then the body, as God made it, must be very important to imaging God. We should not toy around with it. 
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What about your body? – Ask the Pastor