"The Prophet Joseph Smith taught with clarity the importance of our physical bodies:
“We came to this earth that we might have a body and present it pure before God in the celestial kingdom. The great principle of happiness consists in having a body. The devil has no body, and herein is his punishment. He is pleased when he can obtain the tabernacle of man, and when cast out by the Savior he asked to go into the herd of swine, showing that he would prefer a swine’s body to having none. All beings who have bodies have power over those who have not. …
Because a physical body is so central to the Father’s plan of happiness and our spiritual development, we should not be surprised that Lucifer seeks to frustrate our progression by tempting us to use our bodies improperly."
The Adversary's Attacks
Elder Bednar said Satan uses two methods to distract us from our divine destiny. The first method is through misuse of the physical body and the second is minimizing the importance of our bodies.
We can misuse our bodies through a number of ways including, thrill seeking, substance abuse, disobeying the law of chasity, defiling our bodies, worshipping the false idol of body image, etc.
We can minimize the importance of our bodies by heavily involving ourselves in virtual reality and ignoring things as they really are.
"I raise an apostolic voice of warning about the potentially stifling, suffocating, suppressing, and constraining impact of some kinds of cyberspace interactions and experiences upon our souls. The concerns I raise are not new; they apply equally to other types of media, such as television, movies, and music. But in a cyber world, these challenges are more pervasive and intense. I plead with you to beware of the sense-dulling and spiritually destructive influence of cyberspace technologies that are used to produce high fidelity and that promote degrading and evil purposes.
If the adversary cannot entice us to misuse our physical bodies, then one of his most potent tactics is to beguile you and me as embodied spirits to disconnect gradually and physically from things as they really are."
Let's all reflect on this in our lives and make sure we are using the blessings of technology the way the Lord would have us use them.
Because a physical body is so central to the Father’s plan of happiness and our spiritual development, we should not be surprised that Lucifer seeks to frustrate our progression by tempting us to use our bodies improperly."
The Adversary's Attacks
Elder Bednar said Satan uses two methods to distract us from our divine destiny. The first method is through misuse of the physical body and the second is minimizing the importance of our bodies.
We can misuse our bodies through a number of ways including, thrill seeking, substance abuse, disobeying the law of chasity, defiling our bodies, worshipping the false idol of body image, etc.
We can minimize the importance of our bodies by heavily involving ourselves in virtual reality and ignoring things as they really are.
"I raise an apostolic voice of warning about the potentially stifling, suffocating, suppressing, and constraining impact of some kinds of cyberspace interactions and experiences upon our souls. The concerns I raise are not new; they apply equally to other types of media, such as television, movies, and music. But in a cyber world, these challenges are more pervasive and intense. I plead with you to beware of the sense-dulling and spiritually destructive influence of cyberspace technologies that are used to produce high fidelity and that promote degrading and evil purposes.
If the adversary cannot entice us to misuse our physical bodies, then one of his most potent tactics is to beguile you and me as embodied spirits to disconnect gradually and physically from things as they really are."
Let's all reflect on this in our lives and make sure we are using the blessings of technology the way the Lord would have us use them.
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