Here, in this post, you say it's not; that the *church* is the temple of the Holy Spirit so that Paul was wrong.
And yet in post 80, just a few short posts ago, you said that the saints bodies were the temple of the Holy Spirit, agreeing with Paul that time.
Catholics believe that the bodies of the saints as formerly temples of the Holy Ghost are destined hereafter to be eternally glorified. "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2666924/posts?page=80#80
So, will you make up your mind?
Reading that verse IN CONTEXT, clearly indicates that Paul is talking about the individual believers.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Was Paul wrong then?
If what he meant was *the church*, why wasn't *the church* more careful in transcribing the traditions passed down to them and make it clear without having to be reinterpreted for everyone, just like everything else the Catholic church states?
Here, in this post, you say it's not; that the *church* is the temple of the Holy Spirit so that Paul was wrong.
Exactly. Once again Rome insinuates its hierarchy between God and the believer.
You need to slow down and do a little critical reading and reflecting on that passage in the context of the Synoptic Gospels (I suppose had you that ability you would still be a Catholic). I did not say that Paul was wrong, I expanded upon the teaching in the context of the entire teaching of Christ regarding the Holy Spirit. Paul was preaching of individual responsibilities to the collective body of the Church and that individual actions can cause harm to that body. Using "sound-bite" theology to Scripturally support Protestantism only reinforces the value of the Magisterium.