In short, while humans have both material and immaterial aspects, we should think of a person not as a “spirit being trapped in a body” or as a “body that contains a spirit” but rather as a complex creature uniquely designed to live life on earth and commune with God in heaven. As for human procreation, most everyone understands the formation of the body in the womb, but what about the person’s immaterial aspects? Where does the “soul” come from? A few early Christians, like Origen of Alexandria,