Are People Basically Good? (Crucial Questions, #25)

by R.C. Sproul

There are people who emphasize the intellectual or spiritual, thinking that if they pray or maintain a contemplative posture for six hours a day, then what they do with their bodies doesn’t matter, because all God cares about is the soul. But even a cursory reading of the New Testament reveals that much of the law of God concerns how we use our bodies. Thus, even though God does not have a body, we reflect His image by doing works of obedience with our bodies as well as with our souls. In that sense, the body is an integral part of what it means to be made in the image of God.

Sometimes people argue about whether Christianity can be the only way to God. What about other world religions? There’s one thing that Christianity has that no other religion has: an atonement. The fundamental issue that Christianity addresses is not morality or liturgy; what Christianity addresses is the problem of guilt.