Christian thought: For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down, we will have a house in heaven. 2 Corinthians 5:1

The Church of Corinth was founded by the apostle Paul during his second missionary journey, despite having preached for more than a year with great concern and dedication, after his departure disorders arose in the community due to the teaching of heresies that unsettled the authority of Paul as an apostle by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This motivated a second visit by Paul and the sending of two epistles where the apostle explained his thoughts to confront the teaching of error that threatened the faith of the first Christians in Greece. Paul's life was the expression of a wise teaching from the sapiential books: "My child, when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for trials" Ben Sira 2:1.
And in his second epistle the apostle Paul took up a classic teaching of Jesus: "Don't be afraid of those who want to kill your body; they cannot touch your soul. Fear only God, who can destroy both soul and body in hell" Matthew 10:28.
In other words, the meaning of the Christian life is to please God and not satisfy the needs of the flesh. Because as mentalities the flesh and the spirit are opposed to each other and whoever is a friend of the things of the world cannot follow the ways of God, no one can serve two masters at the same time.
This is why Paul with a depth thought taught about the superiority of the spiritual over the material, because the spiritual is eternal and the material is temporal:
"For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands. We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies." 2 Corinthians 5:1-3.
In resume, Paul taught to the first Christians to long for the spiritual gifts above all things, and not to live dependent on what the world values ​​such as money, honors, or power.

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