The Christian hope of salvation isn't to become like the angels of the spiritual world, but to remain true humans, eternally at home in fleshy bodies of cosmic dust, reigning forever in a restored physical universe beside the God-Man, the Divine-Human King over both worlds, because His own glorified human body of resurrected earthly flesh points to the destiny of our own.

There's no greater affirmation to our humanity than the Bethlehem manger, no greater demonstration of God's love for us than the Cross of Calvary, no greater proclamation of human hope than the empty tomb of Jesus Christ.

Hope beckons to a death-bound human race from the open doorway of Christ's empty tomb.

The highest compliment ever paid to the entire human body, and the clearest commentary on its decency, dignity and sacred worth, is the bodily manifestation of God's Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, in truly 'human' flesh by His Incarnation, Resurrection, Ascension and predicted Second Coming.

God's personal adoption of human flesh in Jesus Christ not only defies our culture's shameful, obscene, and lustful imaginations about the body, but also silences the deceptive rumors Satan started in Eden that not all our body parts are 'very good,' as God originally said they were.

Humans may have a zealously naive or passionately ignorant dislike for the concept of 'hell,' but in His own perfect hatred for it, God confronted the realistic results of humanity's misuse of free-will with the only remedy that could maintain human freedom: His personal incarnation, death, and resurrection to offer us an escape from the self-made choices that brought hell into existence.