Everything that Christ has done for us deals, one way or another, not only with the salvation of our souls, but also with the advancement of our physical body. Christ created the bodies of Adam and Eve, and from that union came the entire human race. Everything on earth is modeled after heaven. As heaven mirrors earth, earth mirrors heaven in infinite reflection.
We witness the creative powers of God every day. The physical body is immensely important, even of eternal consequence, else Christ would not have died to bring about our resurrection.
In fact, God is in the details of all of his creations, and they witness of him. Creation is an extension of God. He is what he creates. Satan is known as the spoiler. Christ is known as the creator. Satan represents disorder. Christ represents order. Satan represents lawlessness. Christ represents law.
Science, which looks at creation through natural eyes, invents electron microscopes, Hubble telescopes, and other amazing devices to classify and divide the natural world. Science sees only the principle of causality; therefore, they see a well-run machine. Science knows what laws does, but science does not know what law is. Because science rejects intelligent design, law is merely a pattern that allows predictability. Even law is part of the accidental universe. Their creator is serendipity of circumstances, accident, or chance. Those, however, who look at creation through spiritual eyes, see God himself. To Christians, Earth is a giant Urim and Thummim that reveals all the mysteries of God through analogy.
Science comprehends the living, but science does not comprehend life or death or the immortality of the soul. They comprehend law, but they do not comprehend the law giver. In understanding the world, both science and religion employ the principle of classification and division. The primary difference between science and religion, more specifically Christianity and science, is the choice of the principles of classification.
Classification and division must have a primary principle or set of principles. The principles must be important, and the principles must insure that the classes are mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive. That fits the scientific method. Science divides the biological world into nine classes: life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. A fundamental principle is level of complexity, or level of specificity, “life” being the broadest term which includes all species; “species” being the narrowest term, referring to specific flora or fauna. For example, French Poodle belongs to the class of dog. Dog belongs to the class of animal, and so on. Because the essential principles of classification are determined by logic or argument, there is a certain amount of artificiality to scientific classification and division.
In fact, in the scientific world, man belongs to the class of animals. And the principle of classification is governed by evolution.
In the Christian paradigm, man is not an animal. Man is a child of God, of divine origin and noble birthright, superior to all other creations. God created both the spirit and the body and man became a living soul. At death the body and spirit separate, but in the resurrection the body and spirit are reunited into an everlasting soul, never to die again. Man is a coinheritor with Christ and has godlike potential
We live in a fallen world, enticed by both Christ and Satan. Christ entices us to choose good. Satan entices us to choose evil, thus giving us agency. The Legacy of Christ is that through his atonement, man who once lived with God, can be sanctified, or purified, and returned to the presence of God where he will dwell with him forever. Science classifies man as animal or in an even more dehumanized way, man as machine. Christianity classifies man as having a divine nature with godlike
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