Comments on: What’s the body got to do with God? http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2009/11/05/whats-the-body-got-to-do-with-god/ YoungAdultCatholics - a blog of CTA 20/30 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:26:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: clericus17fp0glx http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2009/11/05/whats-the-body-got-to-do-with-god/#comment-1489 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:13:33 +0000 http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/?p=1477#comment-1489 “If God is transcendent, how are our bodies important for connecting to God? Can’t we just use our reason? Maybe even emotion? What’s the body got do with it?”

That’s a very “gnostic” question. Jesus is God-become-man. We experience God most sensibly through Jesus Christ who is man and God. The entire Gospel of John is devoted to establishing not just the divinity of Jesus but also his humanity (miracle at Cana, raising of Lazarus, the healing of the blind man).

What does the body have to do with God? We encounter reality through the body, and God encountered us by taking on human form.

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