FROM TODAY'S READING (8/26/2014)...
"The body...is no burden to be discarded. It is God's gift to man for life on earth and for the life to come.
Man needs salvation not because he is imprisoned in a body but because he willfully chooses his own way rather than God's way. Man's evil is not in his body; it is in his affections. He loves the wrong things.
This affection is so deep, so basic to man's life on earth, that only a special Savior can free him from Himself....Man does not need a teacher. He needs a Savior."
- Bruce L. Shelley (Church History In Plain Language, pg. 55)
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NLT) Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
1 Corinthians 15:53-55 (NLT) For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies. Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die, this Scripture will be fulfilled: “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? ”
