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Why do we have bodies? When it comes to thinking about our bodies, confusion reigns. In our secular age, there has been a loss of the body’s goodness, purpose, and end. Many people, driven by shame and idolatry, abuse their body through self-harm or self-improvement. How can we renew our understanding and see our bodies the way God does? In Wonderfully Made, John Kleinig forms a properly...

Fourth, God did not just create some part of them with some of their faculties, such as their mind with its rational self-consciousness, or their soul with its capacity for personal relationships; he made the whole of them in his image in order to represent him. The mention of their sexuality shows that this includes their bodies. Likewise, in Genesis 9:6, the reason for capital punishment for murder is that the victim is made in God’s image. The violation of a living, human body is an attack on
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