Why did God create the human body according to 1 Corinthians 6?
According to 1 Corinthians 6, God did not create the human body for fornication or immoral living. Instead, the body was created for the Lord, to bring honor and glory to God Himself. The body is for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body—a two-way street.
Les explains that in 1 Corinthians 6, the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. The body was not created for man to live immorally; it was created to bring honor and glory to God Himself. Earlier in the chapter, Les notes that food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will destroy both because these belong to our temporal existence. When we receive our new resurrected body, we will not need to eat three meals a day. So the body’s ultimate purpose is not temporal gratification but the Lord.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
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How is the relationship between the body and the Lord a two-way street?
The relationship between the body and the Lord is a two-way street.