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What do Christians believe? For centuries, the answer to that question has been found in the creeds—those carefully crafted, sparingly articulate statements that form the minimum definition of the Christian faith. In a day when the church faces the rising tide of world religions and questions of relevance and ultimate meaning, many Christ followers have retreated into personal spirituality,...

only the soul mattered. The early church also faced the Gnostic heretics, who despised the body and identified it with sin and only the soul with good. The Gnostics saw no need of the body being resurrected—why resurrect sinful flesh? They opted for the future state of humans to be purely spiritual—a realm of body-less souls. Christians fought back ferociously against the Gnostic heresy, arguing for the salvation and resurrection of the whole human being—body and soul alike. Many Christians believe
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