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Confidence
Belief overview
Body as a loan
The body is received from God as a loan, while the mind is a field of moral responsibility.
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Contrary
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Neutral
What it is: Tenrikyo teaches that the human body is a thing loaned by God and used temporarily by the person.
How the tradition understands it: This view reinforces dependence on Oyagami, gratitude for life, and responsibility for the use of the mind and conduct.
Textual basis and context: The concept is much repeated in doctrinal and pedagogical explanations of the tradition.
Debates and variations: The language differs from religious anthropologies that treat body and soul in more classically dualist categories.
Documentary evidence
Supportive
Explanation of the body as a loan
A doctrinal source on the body as borrowed and on the use of the mind.
Reference: Official explanatory texts of Tenrikyo.
Content: The material clarifies that the body is received from God and that the mind must be used responsibly.
Use in debate: It is fundamental for the tradition's religious anthropology.
The Doctrine of Tenrikyo
A modern institutional synthesis of doctrine.
Reference: The Doctrine of Tenrikyo.
Content: The text systematizes teachings on God the Parent, creation, the heart, salvation, and religious practice.
Use in debate: It is a useful official source for contemporary doctrinal language.