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To: kosta50
The leading I have in the Spirit is that we are temples for the Spirit's indwelling (John 3, etc.)

One must guard against spiritual pride. Only those who empty themselves of all pride become temples for Spirit's indwelling.

Like glass, the light of God shines through them, yet they have become invisible, never drawing attention to themselves, so that all we see is God's light through them.

Far and few inbetween are such temples.


All those that believe are temples of the Holy Spirit ... even those which Paul had to warn to avoid sexual immorality.
1 Corinthians 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

5,373 posted on 01/12/2007 8:38:00 AM PST by Quester
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To: Quester
All those that believe are temples of the Holy Spirit ... even those which Paul had to warn to avoid sexual immorality

Believe what? The Mormons believe in Christ too; so do Gnostics and Jehova's Witnesses. There are many beliefs. I am sure +Paul had only one belief in mind: one that is Catholic in nature and Orthodox in faith.

And not all who say or think or even believe they believe really believe. They some people act, God only knows what they believe in! The Apostle is saying that those who truly believe what the Church believed from 33 AD onward, everywhere and always since then, are temples of the spirit. But I assure you these are far and few inbetween because there is no likeness of Christ evident in 99.999% of the people I have met, staring with me.

5,403 posted on 01/12/2007 11:54:04 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: Quester

Do the wolves Paul warns us to gaurd against possess the Holy Spirit?


5,406 posted on 01/12/2007 11:57:58 AM PST by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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