I’m not missing your point at all. I believe it is you who is missing the point. In large bolded print you said “Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst”. That was Old Testament prior to the death and ressurection of Christ. We are no longer to build that sanctuary. The rending of the veil removed that barrior between us and God. No longer does God sanction those “ sanctuaries”. Jesus said “wherever two or three are gathered in my name there I am in the midst of them. Prior to Christ’s death and resurrection only the high priest could approach but now we can go directly to the throne in Jesus name. Jesus now dwells in the hearts of believers.
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My two posts about the "Sanctuary" (737, 740) were in response to editor-surveyor's post where he basically said that you cannot encounter Jesus Christ in a Chapel made by human hands.
The point of both of my two posts to editor-surveyor was to show that we most certainly can encounter God in a Chapel or a Church made by human hands, and that God often makes use of many things made by human hands, including that old Mosaic "Sanctuary" mentioned in the Bible. Do you disagree with that statement? (Please remember that God Himself said that was the truth for that old Mosaic Sanctuary made by human hands, in the Bible texts I provided in my first post to editor-surveyor (Exodus 25:1-22), so if you disagree with that basic statement -- that you CAN encounter God in man-made buildings -- you are disagreeing with God.)
Do you believe God made powerful use of a cross made by human hands, or don't you?
Do you believe a person can encounter Jesus Christ inside a Chapel/Church built by human hands, or do you agree with editor-surveyor that you cannot encounter Jesus Christ inside a Chapel/Church built by human hands? Do you try to put a "CynicalBear limit" on God as to where you will permit Him to be encountered by human beings, or do you believe that God is not limited at all in that regard?
And regarding your several repeated attempts to dictate to me exactly which aspects of the posted article I should address in my own posts in this thread, are you saying it is not worthwhile in your mind to assess the credibility of the author of an article (like this "Jennifer LeClaire" who wrote the article this thread is about)? Do you mean to say that you honestly don't think that the author's credibility is a valid question to assess in advance, before you read even the first line of an article or book?
If so, then I strongly disagree with you about that too.