This is an introduction to the theology of the body, by St John Paul 2.

The Holy Bible begins with a marriage on earth (Adam & Eve) and finish with a marriage in Heaven (Christ & Church). And right in the middle of the Bible, we have the book of Song of Songs, the most wild & erotic passage of the entire Scriptures!

Desire. It seems mysterious.
Christopher West suggest us to live our lives in 3D: desire, design, destiny.

Our culture see desires in 2 ways: either you resist like a militant, or you go wild like a beast, causing damages everywhere. Neither way is healthy or life-fulfilling. Christianity propose a 3th way: mysticism. This, is where Sainthood begins. Instead of suppressing our desire, or to throw it in the jungle, we orient it back toward God.

In Buddhism, the desire is the root of all pain, so it has to be repress. Once you can do it, you are in a state of nirvana.

In Christianity, it’s different. The desire is good & intended, it’s just badly oriented. To be at our full potential, our desires has to be direct back toward God. Jesus came down to earth to re-direct our desires back to God. He begins his ministry by saying “What are you looking for?”, not by “Follow me or you’ll go to Hell!”.

What is sin? It’s simply: missing the target.
Our desires are so strong, sometimes we wants to be fulfill, but the temptations are so powerful, we can’t resist, we go to another direction, and it cause damages.

C.S. Lewis describe Hell as the “Great Divorce” with God.

Gnosticism believes that the spirit is good, and the body is bad & evil. That’s wrong!
The Christian view, it’s that the spirit is good, and the body is good too! We tells it in the Apostle’s Creed: “I believe in the resurrection of the body“.