Hi, I agree with Alec. Body and soul are equally important. My reasoning comes from Christ’s resurrection. He appears with his body, changed, yet able to eat and drink. Yes, he also walks through doors. I agree with Protestant theologian N.T. Wright., to paraphrase: God didn’t make junk. Our bodies, this world, is not to be discarded at the end of time. The body and thus world is to be transformed, glorified, once we step outside of time and space. The Celtic cross surrounded by a circle is that symbol of transformation: God and heaven’s descent into the world.
Hi, I agree with Alec. Body and soul are equally important. My reasoning comes from Christ’s resurrection. He appears with his body, changed, yet able to eat and drink. Yes, he also walks through doors. I agree with Protestant theologian N.T. Wright., to paraphrase: God didn’t make junk. Our bodies, this world, is not to be discarded at the end of time. The body and thus world is to be transformed, glorified, once we step outside of time and space. The Celtic cross surrounded by a circle is that symbol of transformation: God and heaven’s descent into the world.
He didn't make junk but remember that he did make us out of dust. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%202%3A7&version=NIV Genesis 2:7
New International Version
7 Then the Lord God formed a man[a] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Sometimes I think the world makes much more sense when we remember we're just a bunch of dust swarming around. ;-)
I agree that we’re dust. But the arrival of Christ brings the possibility of not returning to dust. We can become a living thing even after death.