Why God Gave Us Bodies | The Thesis of Theology of the Body | THEOLOGY OF THE BODY
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Why did God give us bodies? As John Paul II wrote in his Theology of the Body, “The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible the invisible: the spiritual and the Divine.”
God gave us bodies to make visible His own invisible mystery. This is a Mega Mystery! And as Saint Paul directs us in Ephesians 5, “It refers to Christ and the Church.”
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Wow, you are the first person who has explained this concept to me in a way I can actually understand. The passion and clarity in which you present is so inspiring and because of you, I can't wait to learn more. Thank you so much, Dr. West!
I’m so glad to hear this, Laura! Keep going. The mystery just gets deeper and deeper…
Wow, Doctor West your message is precise, clear and Spiritual. Thanks for being a servant of God 🔥❤️🙏!
Paul should be in Rikers for crimes against humanity..he got off easy.
And Christ took a body to reveal God's life-giving love to us.
God answered my question! The constant itch on my back this entire week was “why not gnosticism? Why not body=bad, spirit=good?”
One lingering question is, why does God teach us to fast? To deny ourselves?
I really appreciate your videos. And I can see how the preparation and set up has improved a lot. I also make videos and would love to learn what havr you done with lighting. But, for me the best is the content. Fr. Emmanuel Gonzalez (Spain)🇪🇦
Yes! Lighting is my greatest struggle!
Bien dicho padre 🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦
Great Job! I really appreciate your work. I am also student of rheology, fascinated by TOB. I hope I will join your lectures someday :) Greetings from Poland.
Thank you Marta! I hope you are able to.
"Theology"
More like personal speculation.
Love it. Keep em coming!
We were given bodies to debunk the religious folklore nonsense we get here ..amen
We r our Abba's artwork. Made to share and show him. Beautiful ❤️
🎯 Key points for quick navigation:
00:02:14 *📜 John Paul II states that the body uniquely reveals the invisible spiritual and divine aspects of God, showing his mystery.*
00:03:07 *🌌 Our bodies are a sign meant to visibly manifest God's eternal mystery, which is otherwise hidden in Him.*
00:04:16 *🌿 The body is designed for joy and happiness, grounded in our spiritual quest, reflecting our desire for divine experiences.*
00:05:22 *🍽️ Physical pleasures are meant to give us glimpses of the infinite ecstasy promised in our future bodily experience with the divine.*
00:06:03 *🌠 The incarnation reflects God’s intent to manifest His glory visibly through human flesh, showing the body's divine purpose.*
00:06:43 *🧔🏽 Male bodies testify to God's eternal fatherhood, revealing His divine nature.*
00:07:26 *🌌 The female body is divinely designed to be God's dwelling place, signified by Mary's role in the incarnation.*
00:08:22 *💑 The union of man and woman reveals Christ's love for the Church, representing a visible manifestation of God's love.*
00:09:18 *🔄 Marriage is a biblical metaphor for understanding God's love, starting with Adam and Eve and ending with Christ and the Church.*
00:09:45 *🌈 Being male and female, and uniting as one flesh, manifests God's eternal love revealed through Jesus, showing our divine purpose on earth.*
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This all sounds very esoteric/gnostic to me...
Although the bodies we have right now are fallen and are meant to be the instrument for the sanctification of our souls.
Marriage from beginning to end in the New Testament!:
"Begins with the marriage of man and woman; ends with the marriage between Christ and the Church" 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯❤❤❤❤❤ !!!!!!!!!!
Haven't ever heard such an awesome zoom out 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
This is an answered prayer! Thank you Jesus you are so good and faithful. Being in a body is weird and confusing sometimes.
Wow... "testicles", "testify", "testimony" and "testament" are related 😂 Seriously though, this is so eye opening!
Dang, this video is an improvement! I love the editing and studio... it brings Dr. West's message to a whole new level.
Theology of the Body is John Paul II's reception and elaboration of Paul VI's Dignitatis Humanae, both teachings on the sexual and reproductive ethics. Many American Catholics are greatly impoverished and handicapped in living out the faith by holding that these two Popes' teachings mainly consist in this and forget or neglect that they also taught social ethics especially social justice. Paul VI teachings on social justice in Populorum Progression is received and elaborated by John Paul II in Sollicitudo Rei Socialis. I dare the Theology of the Body Institute to teach beyond sexual ethics like Theology of the Body and also about social ethics like Sollicitudo Rei Socialis.
Every Person in the world need to watch this! Fantastic job!
Thanks for the video, may I offer myself to interpret and translate what you said, I am from an hispanic county and I'd love to share the message.
That would be great if Chris allowed this, we need to get this message to the Spanish speaking world, good on ya sister.
This video was perfect
Nice invented story.
Thanks for this video, Christopher! It's another great intro to TOB that I can share.
I like the way you teach us the Theology of the body. God bless your mission. Thanks 😊
Love this new style of video! More importantly, really in love with TOB and extraordinarily grateful to you for being a teacher of this incredible insight into the meaning of our existence.
This new style of video will resonate with people - Gods Word will reach many!
In Christ - God bless
Awesome! I am one of the certification students and direct an NFP program in North Carolina. I am so grateful for this. I’m going to share it far and wide!
I love it
God bless you Christopher West
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Dr. West, I have a question. If man's testicles are to man the physical testimony of God's fatherly love, then why is this trait not exclusive to man but given to most if not all of male animals? Why is the male genitalia a common trait between all male mammals, when only man was created in God's image and likeness?
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@@TheologyoftheBodyInstitute very well. Then I'll shall repost it there.
Thank you Chris. I don’t know why we forget these things. We are intended to be love materialized and that brings me peace 😊
This concept gets confusing when you get married.
How so?
Fr Brett Brannen # To Save a Thousand of Souls # Our Primary Vocation is Holiness Happiness is doing the will of God. Interestingly, that could also be the definition of holiness. The primary and universal vocation of every person in the world is to be holy-to become like Jesus Christ. Christ-likeness is the only success recognized by God
Great insight
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From the book "food for soul " by Peter kreeft page 10
God is the saint-maker. But we have to ask him, we have to want that. He gives that gift to whoever asks for it. It's of that gift that he says, "Seek and He you will find... [for] the one who seeks, finds" (Matt. 7:7-8). says, "Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness / for they will be satisfied" (Matt. 5:6).
Why does it happen only through love? Because as St. Augustine says, love is our gravity, love is what moves us, what motivates us to move: our love of the end that we move toward. For instance, if we see an ugly dog and a beautiful dog, we move away from the ugly dog, and we move toward the beautiful dog to pet it. Augustine defines evil as disordered love, and good as rightly ordered love: loving God with the love of adoration, our neighbors with charity, and the things of the world with moderation, to use them but not give our whole hearts to them. We are to use things and love persons, not use persons and love things. We are to adore God and use creatures, not adore creatures and try to use God.
That's rightly ordered love.
What wonder and beauty, this makes me weep. God has been healing my heart of lies and misunderstandings about our bodies, about woman and who he is. Thank you Father, thank you Lord Yeshua for leading me to this video and in greater Union and marriage with you, as you purposed and intended, as it is your sovereign Will, beloved God Almighty, in the name of the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit ❤️🔥🙏☦️⛲🕊️🦅🦁🍯🌹🤲
Fate through St John Paul 2 brings me here. Things I could not plan, that were planned for me. 🙏 Prayers made up and said, are true prays.
Kinda goes with the Era of living in the Divine Will of the great St Luisas writings
If I have to hear one more time that my body is a dwelling place for God through my womb or femininity rather than me having the ability to testify because I lack testicles, I will lose it. Let's start giving women action in their bodies as participants in the kingdom rather than a vessel or object for a male figure of Jesus. (The Christ also manifests outside of the person of Jesus!) Men and women have differences physically but these do not create spiritual separation in experiencing and living for Christ.
A dwelling place for God himself is a great honor. One is not better than the other, just different roles. Men and women were not made the same but are loved the same.
❤ I love this, Passion and understanding all in one.
Am truly glad I I found and watch this video I believe it was divine, thank you Dr. West
We're so glad it blessed you! Please pray for us.
So is Heaven bodily pleasures? If so, is Hell bodily suffering?
At the resurrection of the dead (Last Judgment), yes.
Ok wow this gave me chills!
Thanks for sharing this important message, this is life-changing.
We're so glad it blessed you!
Awesome! God is so good
Excellent!!
The short answer is no good reason. Matter is by its nature subject to fallacy and decay, which by logical definition makes it intrinsically evil.
4:53 why do we have tastebuds? Because being able to taste (and smell for that matter, you mentioned smell) is an evolutionary advantage over those who cannot taste or smell. Which results in those with taste or smell to live while those without slowly die off.
Well said. But this doesn´t contradict what is said in the video. Have a nice day!
Indeed. But the body is not merely biological. It is Theological.
@@TheologyoftheBodyInstitute Do you care to elaborate on that? I don't know what that means, in what way is our body theological?