Non-Christian Interpretation Of The Human Body

It is generally known that Christians regard the human body as precious and valuable being because the body is the temple of God made for God’s purpose. Non-Christians also think that the body is crucial, but they do not put further religious values because they usually think that they own the body. In contrast to non-Christians’ point of view on the body, the authors, Diehl and Morris, account for the six Christian perspectives on the body and describe the reasons why non-Christians and even Christians have misunderstanding on the body. First of all, the two authors state that, just like other creation, the human body was made for God’s purpose and natural laws (Diehl and Morris 1). God created humans in His image and gave them the order to look after all other creation based on His teaching, which implies that humans need to follow the natural law created by God as well. Therefore, humans should have balance and take care of the body based on God’s Word. Secondly, since men were created in the image of God, men have responsibility to care for both spiritual health and bodily health. Jesus Christ is the perfect example of this; Jesus fulfilled both role of spiritual health and bodily health by using his human body for the purpose of God’s works. Therefore, Christians should do all the work through the body in order to glorify
This dualism caused people to think that the body would prevent humans from achieving spiritual world and went further to influence some Christians that they began to regard the body as evil being while they treated the soul as holy and sacred being. This interpretation of the body and the soul is wrong based on the Bible as not even one verse talks about dualism. The Bible regards both the body and the soul as the tools of God to fulfill His work and to save