Wonderfully Made - Week 1 - Souls with a Body or Embodied Souls: A Theology of the Body

WestGate Church Teaching

There is a common misunderstanding today, even among Christians, that human beings are primarily souls who happen to have bodies. Or, go to any gym and you’ll see contradictory messages of both idolizing the body AND simultaneous hatred of the body. Sometimes in the same person! But the Biblical story makes clear that from the beginning, to be human is to be a body. And this is a good thing. Being humans means having a body. And - as the Bible shows - what we do with that body is our choice and really matters.