Reflections on Paul

Number 7

The question is asked is if we are a body with a soul or soul with a body. To argue the point allowed the Gnostics and the Corinthians before them to think that we are a body with a soul. If so, once the soul has been saved through baptism, would the body still matter? Conversely if we are soul with a body, do we need the body to to be saved? Either answer misses the point Paul is making. We are body AND soul. If our soul is saved through baptism we are called to use our body to glorify the savior. To do so allows us to begin to experience the joy we will find on heaven while we are still here on earth. Thanks be to God for making this known to us through Paul!