Sin’s power is visible not just in its capacity to alienate us from our bodies but to make this alienation the fundamental thing we are aware of when it comes to them. Because of this, we miss the good givenness of our bodies. By “good givenness” I mean the sheer reality that we exist in an embodied state and cannot do otherwise. Our bodies are given to us in our mother’s womb. We are passive recipients of God’s creative work. Even thousands of years before ultrasound technology, King David of Israel knew that the Lord had knit him together in his mother’s womb and that the result was a body
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