"Worshiping OWN BODY"

For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the present and the life that is to come. I Timothy 4:8.

      Looking closely, the letter of the Apostle Paul, Timothy Young, we see the beautiful and glorious Apostle's advice, about the body, so be careful not to be worshiped, putting beauty in the first place, since everything we put in the first place in our lives, we will do the opposite of what Jesus taught us; Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added. Matthew 6:33. In the Sermon on the Mount, the Master taught his disciples the standard of living of the true worshiper, and when you need something, do not worry because we have a heavenly Father who takes care of even the lilies of the field, and the more of us, and teaches us, that nothing in this world will be a priority in our lives, not to be the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, including our bodies, we see that the Apostle also have the same concern in his teaching, bodily exercise, to some value, he said he has no use, but little, because it has another primary need, which is to sanctify the spirit, soul and body, as I Thessalonians 5:23. No sin is concerned with the body, beautify yourself, dress well, present beautiful and fragrant in society, sin is worshiping his own body, instead of worshiping God, worshiping the body, the person doing idol himself, forgetting that any kind of idolatry is sin. Jesus told John in Revelation of Revelation, that idolaters will be out of heaven, along with others who practice the ungodliness, and love and maketh a lie. Revelation 22:15.

       As studies of the Portuguese VI Congress of Sociology, New University of Lisbon, Faculty of social sciences and humanities, meeting from 25 to 28 June 2008, discoursed on the theme: "Social Worlds knowledge and practices." Based on this article, concluded that the relations between the ideal body type, and the investments made by teenagers, usually diets and exercise, in a consumer society, the beliefs and conventions are replaced by flexibility and mobility, allowing this mode, and through their own consumption, transforming the representations of 'good life' in reality. Therefore the construction of the "I" translates into the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of lifestyles that involves a date body construction. Merges internal health concern and preoccupation with the external appearance, movement and body control. Although Congress cited two key factors in consumer society; diet and exercise, which according to scholars of Congress, bodily investments are used to preserve life, increasing their pleasures, passing to consume, spend and satisfy the desire: The body in consumer culture is then a vehicle pleasure. We show how, based on social comparison, adolescents develop social strategies adopted to achieve the kind of body that allow them a new form of social mobility. At that congress, was presented to the thesis of the British sociologist Anthony Giddens, the cult of the body and appearance conceals so concern with the active control and the construction of the body through the various options of lifestyles that allows reflexive modernity . There is then a kind of fusion between internal health concern and preoccupation with the external appearance, movement and body control. So today to have a muscular body, toned, firm, symbolizes a correct social attitude, since it reflects a concern with the way it looks to others. Consumption and investment in body image refers to behaviors performed by individuals to maintain or enhance their appearance, even citing the sociocultural context, are nevertheless behaviors that may involve a number of risks to health, in the sense that some are even symptoms of eating disorders. Includes, in addition to physical exercise, drinking plenty of water, skipping meals, counting calories food, or smoke, and a group considered extreme behavior, in the sense of being hazardous to health: fast, make quick diets, taking diuretics, vomiting, taking diet pills and laxatives, BTW, the last three behaviors, such as vomiting, taking diet pills and using laxatives to lose weight, belongs to the group of pathogenic weight control practices. This whole situation, referenced by Congress, says the practice of the cult of the body, when they fail to fulfill their desires, they face a depressing life, finding herself ugly and excluded from society, as in fasting to lose weight, does not have any advantage spiritual, we should fast, to have fellowship with God, but also to difficult situations and humanly impossible to be solved, and not for the beauty of our bodies. Of course, we can not be relaxed to the point of leaving the body in any way, we have to care, care of the same, as is the temple of the Holy Spirit, as Paul said: Know ye not that your body is the temple the Holy Spirit who dwells in you, from God, and ye are not your own? I Corinthians 6:19. However, we have to differentiate between ensuring, caring, up idolizing or worshiping one's own body, being selfish for yourself, no mercy, no worries about the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, much less with his fellow, since all attention is focused on himself, some people are not reaching their goals, leaving their bodies in the manner of modern society, even take their own lives. Some experts in this matter, they name corpolatria, which is the exaggerated preoccupation with the body, is a kind of disease of modernity, the care are not linked to health, but physical beauty. It is also appropriate to say that the male vanity is too high, there is growing for this unique public spaces, and are competing with women attending beauty salons, gyms, anabolic take up to have their shapely bodies, and increased muscle, to get the six pack stomach, but the soul and the spirit, crying and moaning in anguish within himself, with wishes of true worship as we advise the Apostle Paul says: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1. Instead of worshiping our body is better cultuarmos God presenting our bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, worshiping Him with all our heart, the beauty of his holiness, because it is the only one who deserves worship and adoration .

        The Apostle Peter gives advice to women regarding adornment, and physical beautification, and thus said: Considering your chaste fear and procedure. Not your adornment be that outward adorning of braiding hair, the lace trims of gold or of apparel, but it is the man who is hidden in the heart, with the incorruptible dress of a meek and quiet spirit, which is of great worth before God. For thus also adorned another time the holy women who trusted in God, and is subject to their husbands. I Peter 3:2-5. So that our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, we must open the doors of our hearts to Him to do in us, their housing, there will understand how valuable cultuarmos is God, not us, and that also our idol is only one who died on the cross for us, and is alive forever, even as he identified himself, when he appeared to John on Patmos and he said: and he that liveth and was dead; behold, I am alive forevermore. And I have the keys of death and hell. Revelation 1.18. To this we must give all our honor, praise and worship, because one day He died for us on the cross of Calvary; Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Titus 2.14. Amen