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Matthew 5:29-30 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.

Notice that Jesus says it is your body that gets thrown into hell, not your soul.
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However, Jesus certainly did not mean to pluck out your physical eye or to cut off your physical hand. Within a single sentence, only one meaning can be used unless it is explicitly otherwise.
"This is my body...this is my blood..." Jesus disciples bodies ate bread and drank wine, the same as ours do when we have Communion. Yet Jesus said "this *is*" not "this is like" as he typically did when speaking metaphorically or symbolically. It was the spiritual reality that was not bread, not wine, but flesh and blood instead.

It should be noted that Jesus often repeated ideas (in a Jewish context) that were not traditionally Jewish, but Greek and Zoroastrian. This certainly doesn't mean that we should accept all of Greek thinking and Zoroastrian mysticism as true, but it indicates that we can't dismiss something just because it is part of those cultures.

Matthew and Mark were very much the "realists" in that they focused on there here and now, the physical things we can see and hear and touch. They focused on Jesus' miracles and actions and what He told people to do. Luke and especially John, however, were much more concerned with the more esoteric aspects of Jesus' ministry and their Gospels are full of things that suggest an immortal -real- soul and a mortal -less real- body.

In Christ,
~CSL