The body has little or no connection with the soul or the spiritual in this widespread type of thinking among evangelicals. However, the fact is that this is a question which matters much, because the ill effects of this kind of mentality have reached epidemic proportions. Good members of the army of the Lord are being killed with alarming rapidity. Of those who survive there are cripples or those who are so stuffed and clogged up that they are virtually useless anyway. In Australia cardiovascular disease is a major killer.
Obesity is a major problem in the United States as well as in some other countries.
To die of old age is now a rarity. Of course, satiating the body because of its evil nature is but one way of approach. The other way is to ascetically beat the body to death-or very close to death. Starvation and socio-physical flagellation will keep it in check. Yes, the two-sphere mentality is coming back upon us with a vengeance.