Embrace your body

"Jesus Christ who is utterly perfect had a body and the devil who is utterly imperfect doesn't have one." Martin Luther. 

The idea that the body is sinful, bad and drags us down while the spirit is good originated from the devil. The Bible neither advocates nor supports this dichotomy between the body and the spirit; that sort of thought entered the early church when Gentile pagans converted to Christianity. In time, this Greco-Roman influence began to displace that of the earlier Jewish believers, who believed the body to be good.

Our body is 'fearfully and wonderfully made' (Psalm 139:14). The devil may just be jealous because we have something that he doesn't.

Scripture describes Heaven as a concrete physical place that we can see, feel and touch. Jesus' resurrected body is an example for mankind's future.