Was there ever a time?

Peter writes:

Time was when you could despise the body and love God, or despise God and love the body. One could be an ascetic or a hedonist.

Then God got Himself a body. Despite efforts to retain this choice (Nietzsche, flagellants), the incarnation made the ancient choice of ascetic or hedonist impossible. Since the incarnation the only choices are to love the body and God, or to despise both.

I don’t think so. The story of creation always made this choice impossible. That’s why the story of creation was “tweaked” whenever possible. If creation is a sentence then the incarnation is an exclamation point.

This is my body!

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