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and so shall we ever be with the Lord.' (1 Thessalonians Chapter 4:13-17)

These verses contradict the heretical view of spirit's superiority and its corollary of corporeal inferiority.

Why do we consider as inferior that which God considers sufficiently important that no human being is invited to spend eternity with him without one? Our destiny is not to waft off to heaven as spirit (the Pagan Greek notion of Elysium), but to reside forever with God in our glorified body. Otherwise God lied, because that's what Jesus promised.

How does believing in corporeal inferiority belittle Jesus? Because Jesus achieved our Salvation and purchased our Redemption when he 'made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men'. (Philippians 2:7)

God created man with a body, saved man through his Son assuming a body and promises us all a glorified body.

Aren't our bodies sinful but our spirits pure? No.

Once dead in sin, our spirit is now renewed. Our unregenerate body awaits our glorification. But our renewed spirit is superior to our unregenerate body not because it is spirit but because it is born again. Romans 8:11-12 and Ephesians 1:13-14, explain our spirit's renewal is God's guarantee of our bodily Resurrection.

Our body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19). 1 John 4:17 says: 'as [Jesus] is, so are we in this world.'

Isn't it time we showed the same respect for the human body that God does?

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