Canned response? Do tell, from where did I get it?
Our body is not who we are. It is merely a convenient housing for our soul, which is what we really are. Changing the housing does not change the person.
Catholics have too much of a focus on this material, physical, earthly existence and not enough on the spiritual reality in which we operate every moment of our lives. It’s like they don’t even know it exists and they’re operating in it every moment of their lives.
This world is temporal and temporary.It will not last, it is destined for destruction, praise God, so that the new reality, called the new heavens and new earth, which are not tainted by or corrupted by sin can be established.
What is seen is transient, what is unseen is eternal. (2 Corinthians 4)
****Our body is not who we are. It is merely a convenient housing for our soul, which is what we really are. Changing the housing does not change the person.*****
And that is heresy which I think, though I am not sure, is known as Gnosticism.
What you are saying is that the body was created by God for corruption and destruction and that is just not true.
For one, it belies the dignity and goodness of God who does not create anything merely for the purpose to destroy it.
It denies the love for which we are created.
The body does not exist without the soul.
The soul does not exist but for the body.
God so loved the human body that He created one for Himself, in order to offer that body in sacrifice as atonement for our sins, redemption for our bodies and souls and to reopen through obedience what had been closed through disobedience.
The belief that the body is refuse, mere garbage to be discarded/replaced is not Scriptural and denies the bodily resurrection Scripture promises. It is not a Christian belief.