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What is a Human Body?

Published: March 10, 2019, 4 p.m.

1 Corinthians 3:1-23; Genesis 1:26-31
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?  If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

We often times are told that our bodies are machines or that they are nothing more than matter made up of bones, blood, and electrons. Others still might say that the human body just the worthless earth-suit that houses the more sacred essence of the soul, leaving the body to have little value. What do you think? What is the human body for? Is there a knowledge that our bodies give us that is not cerebral? What clues do we have from science and theology that might help us live out our calling as followers of Christ? What does his body have to do with my body? Join us as we continue in our series of Being Human.