Christian Huff

walks on earth for 33 years, walks a Roman road and is crucified on a Roman cross.

And then that body is resurrected from the dead three days later.

And that body ascends and now is sitting at the right hand of the father mediating for us.

So Christianity alone has a very, very high view of the body.

And Dr. Calvert pointed this out.

He's, I mean, what does it say about,

What does it basically say about God's view of the material universe?

If God himself took on the nature of that material universe in the form of the human body, it actually says that God has a very high view of the body.

And it is one of the things, by the way, I do appreciate about

some of the other faith traditions outside the Protestant Reformation.

We're byproducts, and I'm certainly a Protestant, but I do appreciate a very earthy view of the kingdom.

I think it's helpful, and I think that we've lost some of that in the church over the years.

So some of this lecture was very helpful for me.

Our creed was we have no creed.

But that's a creed.

It's the first rule of Fight Club.

Which was an early creed.

I mean, really, that verse and that text in 1 Corinthians 15 where Paul says, what I received, I passed on you as a first importance that Christ died for our sins, that he was buried, that he was raised from the third day.

That is an oral tradition that a lot of scholars believe that Paul received, I think, within like 15 months of the actual resurrection of Jesus.

So Christ raises from the dead