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The Physical World a Channel of Divine Grace

Will Nielsen
February 22nd, 2008
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[Christ's] death on the Cross was Bloody, painful, and real. Human physicality was thus not something of which to be ashamed. Rather, it was the instrument of our salvation. The Gnostics retreated in revulsion from the flesh as if it were something unworthy. For them, there was a great dichotomy between flesh and spirit. But this was an error: for the Incarnation of Christ dissolved this dichotomy, making the flesh spiritual and making the physical world a channel of divine grace.

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Farley, Lawrence. The Prison Epistles, The Orthodox Bible Study Companion Series. (Ben Lomond, Calif.: Conciliar Press, 2003) , p. 162. Commenting on Colossians 1:21-23.

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