With the understanding that God has given us, we have to agree that the physical body is the least essential part of the man. Some scientist has called the body “a concatenation of atoms,” just a group of atoms and molecules that have gotten together for a while.
A man is more than likely to put a hat on the top of his body and walk down the street with a little strut, and say, “What a big boy am I!” But the truth is that he is just a walking concatenation of atoms and that is all.
The truth is that the soul of man is the essential part. Just as soon as the soul decides to wing away there will not be anything there for you to put your hat on. The body will decay and depart.
Genesis 3:14–19; Ecclesiastes 12:1–8; 2 Corinthians 5:1–8
Echoes from Eden, 88, 89.