Core to our nature as human beings is the fact that we are created by God, He made us in His image and gave us dominion over creation. What that implies fundamentally is that we do not belong to ourselves from the get go, we belong to Him who made us. In disobedience we made/make ourselves slaves to sin and so Jesus had to die to redeem us by satisfying the justice of God in Himself.
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is within you, whom you have [received as a gift] from God, and that you are not your own [property]? You were bought with a price [you were actually purchased with the precious blood of Jesus and made His own]. So then, honor and glorify God with your body.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 AMP
The implication of this in the…
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