soul

It's hard at times to resist overstating a point - especially when our traditional thinking about an issue is entrenched so deeply that we revert to patterns of speaking and acting without thinking about their real basis at all. Sunday was such a time - I overstated the case (did I?) for viewing everything in life as spiritual. Unlike the Greeks, who saw the material world and everything associated with it as evil, the Biblical picture is of a material cosmos created good by a good God who gave it to us for our benefit and enjoyment.