The human body is amazing.

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The Human Body

• The human body is amazing. It defies our
  intelligence to believe that there are those who
  say they do not believe in creation and that
  somehow, all things simply evolved from
  nothing. There are so many features about the
  human brain and body that absolutely preclude the
  notion of evolution, due to requisite
  co-existing organs, etc. 

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Some Amazing Facts

• The average human brain has about 100 billion
  nerve cells. Nerve impulses to and from the brain
  travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.
  Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of
  mucus every two weeks, or it would digest itself.

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Some Amazing Facts

• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't
  appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
• Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
• The average surface of the human intestine is 656
  square feet (200 m).
• The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet
  (2m). 
• 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human
  body every second.
• Every year about 98 of the atoms in your body
  are replaced.

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Some Amazing Facts

• There are 45 miles (72 km) of nerves in the skin
  of a human being.
• The average human heart will beat 2. 5 billion
  times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons
  of blood.
• Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists
  of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.
• Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per
  day on its journey through the body.
• (material taken from Mawlana Faizani on the
  Internet).

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The Human Body

• The more we learn about the human body, the less
  trouble we have understanding Davids
  exclamation
• I will praise You, for I am fearfully and
  wonderfully made marvelous are Your works, and
  that my soul knows very well. Psalm
  13914

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The Human Body

• One reason the human body is seen as important in
  the Scriptures is because it houses mans eternal
  spirit
• For we know that if our earthly house, this
  tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God,
  a house not made with hands, eternal in the
  heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring
  to be clothed with our habitation which is from
  heaven. 2 Corinthians 51,2

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The Human Body

• The Bible tells us not to fear the ones who kill
  the bodybut the soul!
• And do not fear those who kill the body but
  cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is
  able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
  Matthew 1028

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The Human Body

• We can dishonor our bodies.
• The body is the souls temple.
• Or do you not know that your body is the temple
  of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have
  from God, and you are not your own? For you were
  bought at a price therefore glorify God in your
  body and in your spirit, which are God's. 1
  Corinthians 619,20

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The Human Body

• We can dishonor our bodies.
• And God both raised up the Lord and will also
  raise us up by His power. Do you not know that
  your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then
  take the members of Christ and make them members
  of a harlot? Certainly not! 1 Corinthians
  614,15

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The Human Body

• Admittedly, the body has certain necessities.
• Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your
  life, what you will eat or what you will drink
  nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not
  life more than food and the body more than
  clothingWhat shall we eat?' or 'What shall we
  drink?' or 'What shall we wear Matthew
  625,31

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The Human Body

• Admittedly, the body has certain necessities.
• For after all these things the Gentiles seek.
  For your heavenly Father knows that you need all
  these things. But seek first the kingdom of God
  and His righteousness, and all these things shall
  be added to you.
  Matthew 632,33

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The Human Body

• The Bible teaches us to love our bodies.
• So husbands ought to love their own wives as
  their own bodies he who loves his wife loves
  himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but
  nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does
  the church.
  Ephesians 528,29

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The Human Body

• We are to control our bodies.
• For we all stumble in many things. If anyone
  does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man,
  able also to bridle the whole body.
  James 32

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The Human Body

• You are the only one who can control your body.
• But I discipline my body and bring it into
  subjection, lest, when I have preached to others,
  I myself should become disqualified.
  1 Corinthians 927

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The Human Body

• The body is to be a living sacrifice.
• I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
  mercies of God, that you present your bodies a
  living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which
  is your reasonable service. And do not be
  conformed to this world, but be transformed by
  the renewing of your mind, that you may prove
  what is that good and acceptable and perfect will
  of God. Romans 121,2

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The Human Body

• The body in the husband-and-wife relationship.
• Let the husband render to his wife the affection
  due her, and likewise also the wife to her
  husband. The wife does not have authority over
  her own body, but the husband does. And likewise
  the husband does not have authority over his own
  body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one
  another except with consent for a time...
  1
  Corinthians 73-5

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The Human Body

• Regarding the physical body, Deity indwelt in it.
• For we do not have a High Priest who cannot
  sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all
  points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us
  therefore come boldly to the throne of grace,
  that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help
  in time of need. Hebrews 415,16

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Conclusion

• Based on what we have seen about the body, we
  know it is not exempt from the application of
  Biblical principles and responsibilities. The
  body--due to habitat, conveyance, and
  stewardship--enters into any discussion of our
  service to God. We do not, then, have the right
  to ignore or mistreat our bodies. 

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Conclusion

• Serious lack of rest for the body, the inhalation
  or injection of harmful chemicals, and other
  too-common practices are forbidden, as they can,
  and often do, render injury to the body.

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Conclusion

• Just because the Bible treats the body as
  comparatively less important than the soul, it
  does not mean we are justified in relegating the
  body to unimportance, irrelevance, and even
  oblivion. In the end, our bodies will be changed
  (1 John 3 2).  In the spiritual realm to come,
  well have bodies that are designed for the
  celestial (1 Corinthians 1535).