{"id":128590,"date":"2025-11-06T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=128590"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T05:08:48","slug":"the-biblical-call-to-bodily-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=128590","title":{"rendered":"The Biblical Call To Bodily Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-drop-cap\">Christians can often have a strange relationship with the body. Certain Christian traditions have treated the body as if it is no more than a shell for the soul, a material self that is of little importance when compared to the immaterial self. Other Christian traditions have treated the body as if it is of paramount importance and far more consequential than the soul\u2014\u201cFollow the whims and desires of your body, for it reveals your truest self.\u201d Yet as we look to Scripture, we can see that both body and soul matter tremendously to the Lord. This being the case, both ought to matter tremendously to the believer.<\/p>\n<p>   Embodied Holiness  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph book-author\">Lainey Greer<\/p>\n<p>     <a id=\"https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F4oYHveh\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/the-biblical-call-to-bodily-care\/#https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F4oYHveh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy from Amazon<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Affiliate links)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lainey Greer has written an interesting and helpful book that is meant to ask and answer this question: Does the body matter to God? Or perhaps better said: Does <em>your<\/em> body matter to God? I\u2019m sure you will not be surprised to learn that she believes the body matters very much to God. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the closing chapters of <em><a id=\"https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F4oYHveh-1\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/the-biblical-call-to-bodily-care\/#https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F4oYHveh-1\">Embodied Holiness<\/a><\/em>, Greer gets very practical by offering a series of measures any Christian can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians can often have a strange relationship with the body. Certain Christian traditions have treated the body as if it is no more than a shell for the soul, a material self that is of little importance when compared to the immaterial self. Other Christian traditions have treated the body as if it is of paramount importance and far more consequential than the soul.See AlsoA La Carte (June 18)Am I My Body?On Wanting To Not Die<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":128604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-128590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-articles","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/vd-photography-2yGAiiKkvH8-unsplash-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128605,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128590\/revisions\/128605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}