Well, I was surfing the web and I somehow came across this quote: "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God."
I find this interesting. According to this biblical quote, we should regard our body as a holy vessel of God. Our body is compared to a temple for the Holy Spirit.
Now, I've been hearing nearly my whole life that the body is full of sin and is of this Earth. According to the preachers through many sermons, the body is not pure, clean, etc.
That quote that I mentioned before is the total contradiction of what I've been taught. You can't say that the body is a temple for the Holy Spirit yet it's sinful and not pure at all.
Which is right?
2007-12-26 14:20:36 · 14 answers · asked by ArmedSquirrel 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hmmm I live in my temple not someone or something else thank you very much, I don't do symbiosis.
2007-12-26 14:37:48 · answer #1 · answered by Zappster (Deep Thunker) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The quote you are using was directed at believers. When you receive salvation you also receive the Holy Spirit, then your body becomes a temple for the Holy Spirit. As humans, due to the fall of man in the Garden, we are born into sin. Meaning that sin is a part of our human nature, and thus a part of us, but when you receive Christ "all things are made new". That is the hard part about being a true follower of Christ, "putting off the old things". All of this is exactly why what Jesus did for us is so beautiful. Because he too was "born into sin" and yet lived a sinless life. Gives us all hope doesn't it. Anyhow, you can't just take the scripture out of context like that, then it will cause you confusion.
2007-12-26 14:33:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The body is a temple for the Holy Spirit to live in and guide us. However, there is a natural human tendancy inside of us to disregard God, which could be described as being "not pure" as you say. So basically we have a choice to follow the Holy Spirit living within our body or to follow our tendancies.
2007-12-26 14:25:06 · answer #3 · answered by juliEmAnia 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Good Job, this is correct and it is a valid point, the body is the temple in which God (the holly spirit) is to dwell within us. Now don't be confused God the father (God) does not live in us, he is in Heaven, the Holly spirit does, the holly spirit has a little more wiggle room when it comes to sin, he can come to earth (where there is sin) and live inside of us. Now the kicker. if you or I or anyone accepts Jesus as their lord and savior then we are as if without sin, we have switched places with Jesus, he died for our mistakes and paid the price for our sins. So in a nut shell the holly spirit can live in us because when it sees our spirit it is as if it is looking at Jesus.
Thus Jesus is living in me.
2007-12-26 14:27:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What this means is, we should not give into our bodily cravings(ie: lust & gluttony, etc)precisely because our bodies were created to be temples for the Holy Spirit.
When we do give way, that is when they become full of sin & thereby, are "desecrating the Temples of the Holy Spirit."
2007-12-26 14:25:13 · answer #5 · answered by clusium1971 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think what that means is that we should TREAT our bodies as the temple of God and repent from sin so as to keep it holy. Does that make sense?
2007-12-26 14:26:47 · answer #6 · answered by Rollover Mikey 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This was the true teaching of Jesus. The Pauline theology that the Romans replaced the true teaching of Jesus with is where all of the dirty sinful body stuff came from.
Paul was apparently gay and hated himself for it. This is the opinion of many biblical scholars.
Sadly his teaching won out over the teachings of Jesus and have become what we now think of as Christianity.
Love and blessings Don
2007-12-26 14:26:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Which is right would depend on your faith. Your best bet is to go and talk to your local pastor, clergy, whatever and discuss it. You might even try talking to people at several different churches to help you figure it out.
You are not asking a simple question. It is something you will basically have to figure out for yourself.
Good Luck!
2007-12-26 14:27:30 · answer #8 · answered by bionicbookworm 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A temple is just a building. What it is used for is what makes it a temple vs a whore house.
I'm glad I didn't go to your church growing up. My fahter was a preacher, yet I was NEVER taught like you were. I knew such teaching existed, but I was fortuate to never hear any such preaching.
2007-12-26 14:26:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
our bodies, the physical form, is of this world....we are able to be hurt, age and die, etc (which isn't possible in heaven) but we are too treat our bodies as the temple of God because it is the way that we present ourselves to the world. We are to put forth the best image possible and also the Lord resides in all of us and we should see to it that we always present ourselves as such
2007-12-26 14:24:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋