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Most of us don’t spend much time thinking about what it means to have a body, but a lot of our pressing questions (about sex, gender, aging, health, even AI) are rooted in this bigger question. This week we looked at two lies our world tells us about our bodies. Lie #1 says you are only a body, nothing more than “a vast assembly of nerve cells,” so your body becomes either a project to perfect or a bucket list to finish before time runs out. Lie #2 says you are not really a body, that the “real you” is a soul just passing through, an idea as old as the Gnostics that still sneaks into the church today. But Genesis 2:7 tells us something different: “the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.” We are dust: truly physical, created good, & created with limits. We are breath: more than chemistry, made alive by God Himself. And yes, the dust has been marred by sin, but God has not given up on it. In Jesus He took on a body, rose with a body, & promises to raise ours too. Our bodies are not projects to perfect or shells to escape, they are gifts to receive! So, perhaps the real question for this week should be: How would I live differently if I really believed that I am a body and that is a gift from God?