i have read articles by christian pastors telling the faithful to remember that salvation is physical: you have a body, the world is material, you experience things with your senses, the differences is that the new world to come is perfect, like the world before the fall and god's curse. the materialistic side of christianity comes from old judaism, where god is talked of like a man and even has a wrestling match with jacob. the spiritual side of christianity derives mostly from the new testament and can be attributed to jesus' rejection of rabbinical/pharisaic judaism in favor of otherworldliness.
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