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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...

The New Testament occasionally uses nous, a Greek word that approximates what we now call the mind (for example, Rom 12:2). The Greeks regarded it as the organ for physical, mental, moral, and spiritual perception. But the Old Testament has no technical term for the mind as we know it. Instead, it regards the heart, the central physical organ of the human body, as the seat of what we now call the mind, much as we now locate the mind in the brain. The heart is regarded as the organ for perception
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