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<blockquote data-quote="ViaCrucis" data-source="post: 68612183" data-attributes="member: 293637"><p>In Genesis we read that God created the heavens and the earth, He created the sky, sun, moon, land, seas, things that swim, fly, and creep on the earth--and He made us, human beings. In Genesis 2 our creation is described in explicitly material terms, God gathers dirt and breathes into nostrils to make man a living thing (rather than a corpse). Man is not an embodied soul, but an ensouled body.</p><p></p><p>We learn again, in Christ's resurrection, that the body matters; Christ's tomb was made empty, when He appeared what does He say? "See I have flesh and bone which a spirit does not have" and invites St. Thomas to touch and feel the wounds of crucifixion. </p><p></p><p>And it is Christ's resurrection, as the first fruits of the dead, that is the guarantee, the promise, that we too shall be raised up. </p><p></p><p>At every point throughout the Bible what is clear is that being human is a full-bodied reality, we are physical creatures and our hope of eternal life is not about escaping the body but the resurrection of the body. Indeed, the idea that we need to escape the material world because the material world (including the body) is inferior or evil is an explicit heresy, it's Gnosticism.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Jesus doesn't kick ghosts out of people, at least not "ghosts" in the modern sense of a ghastly apparition of a dead person; these are evil spirits, demons/devils. Jesus and the apostles are described as performing exorcisms, not kicking ghosts out of people or playing the role of ghost hunters/ghost busters (though that'd certainly be a fascinating way to reboot the franchise).</p><p></p><p>-CryptoLutheran</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ViaCrucis, post: 68612183, member: 293637"] In Genesis we read that God created the heavens and the earth, He created the sky, sun, moon, land, seas, things that swim, fly, and creep on the earth--and He made us, human beings. In Genesis 2 our creation is described in explicitly material terms, God gathers dirt and breathes into nostrils to make man a living thing (rather than a corpse). Man is not an embodied soul, but an ensouled body. We learn again, in Christ's resurrection, that the body matters; Christ's tomb was made empty, when He appeared what does He say? "See I have flesh and bone which a spirit does not have" and invites St. Thomas to touch and feel the wounds of crucifixion. And it is Christ's resurrection, as the first fruits of the dead, that is the guarantee, the promise, that we too shall be raised up. At every point throughout the Bible what is clear is that being human is a full-bodied reality, we are physical creatures and our hope of eternal life is not about escaping the body but the resurrection of the body. Indeed, the idea that we need to escape the material world because the material world (including the body) is inferior or evil is an explicit heresy, it's Gnosticism. Jesus doesn't kick ghosts out of people, at least not "ghosts" in the modern sense of a ghastly apparition of a dead person; these are evil spirits, demons/devils. Jesus and the apostles are described as performing exorcisms, not kicking ghosts out of people or playing the role of ghost hunters/ghost busters (though that'd certainly be a fascinating way to reboot the franchise). -CryptoLutheran [/QUOTE]
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