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>On what grounds do you make that assertion?
Uh, a basic understanding of biology? What exactly do you think an emotion is? It is the experience of a particular bodily state.
>Wouldn't the concept of a soul and the afterlife go against this assertion?
Humans are body and spirit. Heaven will be a kind of new earth where the saints will enjoy an exalted, yet still human existence, of body and spirit. Christianity proper is not gnostic, it celebrates material existence as the good work of a good God.