John Ball writes:
A lot of religious groups see God as only transcendent, that is outside of the material world. In Islam, for example, Allah has a messenger, but he stays strictly outside the field of play. Dualist religions, which view the world and the body as evil, have solely transcendent gods.
But in the Christian faith God is Incarnate. There is nothing inherently evil about creation. It is only sin, the misuse of creation, that is evil.
It is not prosperity, or well-being, or love, or sexual activity that is inherently wrong, nor friendship, nor games, nor work that are bad, but it is the misuse of the things that are inherently good that is bad.
Creation is so good that God so loved the world that he sent his only Son to suffer and die on the cross in order to reconcile his creation and mankind (made in his image) to himself. God himself to on the condition of a human being, with all its suffering and temptations. Yet you can often hear atheists say that Christianity is against the body, against the physical world. This is far from the truth. We are to be resurrected in the body. God is only against the abuse of the body. God does not hate the world like the Cathars of old or the Buddhists of today. He does not waste his energies condemning and punishing as do the Moslems or the Politically Correct.
God is the Living God. He is the God of life affirmation. Without God in their world, the heathens can only rage, can only hate life and give free rein to their lust for death.
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