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To: Mrs. Don-o
Yes... if I understand you correctly. Since we are, as God intended when He created us, embodied souls, or ensouled bodies, the body and soul absolutely go together. Together, they constitute “you.”

Nope. My soul and spirit constitute "me". Body is just equipment. Ask Stephen Hawking, spiritually dead to God, but alive in the body. When his soul and (hu)man's spirit depart from his body, he will be physically dead, but his soul will be alive. Does he want that body back again? Maybe not, but that's what he will get if he doesn't heed the call.

Do you not know that Jesus came to save souls, not bodies?

Jesus is able to give the "me" component a new body, minus any remnant of the "old man" in it. That's what I want. (He will have the only damaged body in Heaven. AFIK.)

324 posted on 08/08/2013 9:46:02 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1
"Do you not know that Jesus came to save souls, not bodies?"

I think this is the root of our disagreement. I believe Jesus came to save persons: and the human person is a composite being, with a body, and a soul which is spiritual. (That is, the human soul is a spirit.)

Angels are bodiless spirits. Animals are nonspiritual bodies. Humans are embodied spirits (or you could say "enspirited bodies") --- the point is, we are both conjoined, because God made us composite.

This explains the significance of the empty tomb. The angels didn't say "Here's His corpse, yeah, that's still dead; but don't worry, He got another body."

Some nonbelievers say that Jesus' disciples came and stole His body, or that wild dogs came and ate it. According to your view, would that be an acceptable explanation, since you think His body did not rise, but it was replaced?

I hope I'm not misconstruing you--- you did say we get replacement bodies, right?

It is perfectly plausible that I could be hit by an atom bomb and be blasted up to the stratosphere with my ashes distributed through the wind worldwide and ending up in bodies of whales, lettuces, bacteria, and other people; and the Lord will still resurrect MY body --- THIS body --- on the last day.

Why couldn't He? He said He would.

Resurrection" means to be brought back to life, to rise (again) from the dead. "Again" - the "re" part of resurrection, means the same body died, and is raised again.

"Reincarnation" means the transmigration of the soul into another body.

As you know, although reincarnation is taught in Hinduism and Buddhism, it is not part of Christian revelation. Isn't the "resurrection of the body" part of your creed? (Just curious: I actually had never before run into a Christian who didn't believe in the "resurrection of the body.")

327 posted on 08/08/2013 11:21:03 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("In Christ we form one body, and each member belongs to all the others." Romans 12:5)
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