In today's GB News Daily Reflection, we reflect on Jesus's resurrected body and how our bodies matter."The rest of the world is a pale shadow in comparison to Jesus's real body. Jesus's body is the one that's exalted to what a body should be. A body in excelsis. "Why does the church find this important? Partly because it tells us that our bodies matter. They're not something that can be discarded or swapped for something else. In modern society, people often treat their bodies a sign to fight against or to hate as they try and transform them into something different."But what if people were to treat them instead as a gift? Even if in this life our bodies are imperfect, they're essential to our very being, and they're something to celebrate."
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00:00Hi, I'm Mark and I'm the Vicar of Grove Hill and Saltersgill in Middlesbrough.
00:11One of the reasons I like science fiction is because it uses slightly absurd situations to ask important questions.
00:17Like what happens if you take a human mind out of a body and put it in a robot, or an animal, or a different human being altogether?
00:24That seems like a fun idea to knock rounds in a TV show, but it asks an important question.
00:29Is your mind or soul the only thing that matters? Is your body important?
00:33Christian believes that your bodies are essential to who you are.
00:37When Jesus was brought back to life, he's really clear to his followers that he isn't a ghost.
00:41Even though he appeared through a locked door, his body is a real body.
00:45In the words of Luke's Gospel, a ghost doesn't have flesh and bones.
00:49How does that fit with passing through the locked door?
00:52Think of it like this. Jesus' resurrected body isn't the thing that's ethereal and ghost-like.
00:58It's the other way around. The rest of the world is a pale shadow in comparison to Jesus' real body.
01:03Jesus' body is the one that's exalted to what a body should be, a body in excelsis.
01:08Why does the church find this important? Partly because it tells us that our bodies matter.
01:14They're not something that can be discarded or swapped for something else.
01:17In modern society, people often treat their bodies as something to fight against, or to hate,
01:22as they try and transform them into something different.
01:26But what if people were to treat them instead as a gift?
01:29Even if in this life our bodies are imperfect, they're essential to our very being.
01:34And they're something to celebrate.
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