[Gamecock]

Oh, and it just dawned on me, the separation of the soul from the body is all very Greek. They saw the body as something bad, something to yearn to be separated from at death. They saw the Christian belief in the resurrection as foolishness.

That is what Paul was up against during his work in Greece.

[Mrs. Don-o]

True. Full-out dualism: that’s what I was thinking it was. It is desperately uncomfortable with Christ’s real bodily Incarnation (”the Word was made Flesh”), and His real bodily death, AND His real bodily resurrection. This philosophy wants to brush off bodily reality a.s.a.p., as if God had never called it “good” or did not have the power or the inclination to save it.