You only touch on it briefly here, and I hope maybe you get into it more in a later post, but I think it's so important for modern Christians to understand the theology of body and spirit. To think the two are separate can lead to all sorts of heresies, most especially about Jesus and the nature of the incarnation. Inevitably we begin to think one is good and the other is evil, or at least unimportant, and that mindset influences everything about how treat and think about the physical world and our own selves. If it's only our "inner self" that matters than why not alter or even mutilate the outer to suit whatever emotions or ideologies we have?
Absolutely. This idea is one of the things that inspired the series to begin with. The heresy of Gnosticism, among other things, has seen a resurgence in the American church in an odd fashion, and I'm excited to get into that.
You only touch on it briefly here, and I hope maybe you get into it more in a later post, but I think it's so important for modern Christians to understand the theology of body and spirit. To think the two are separate can lead to all sorts of heresies, most especially about Jesus and the nature of the incarnation. Inevitably we begin to think one is good and the other is evil, or at least unimportant, and that mindset influences everything about how treat and think about the physical world and our own selves. If it's only our "inner self" that matters than why not alter or even mutilate the outer to suit whatever emotions or ideologies we have?
Absolutely. This idea is one of the things that inspired the series to begin with. The heresy of Gnosticism, among other things, has seen a resurgence in the American church in an odd fashion, and I'm excited to get into that.