The body of the Church, that is the communion of all Christians, is the temple of the Holy Spirit. To cite one passage from Paul that addresses the community of Christians as one spiritual body and construe it to mean something else is at best disingenuous.
Catholicism is a faith of all of the senses, smells and bells if you will. The presence of a relic gives us a very real and fully tangible encounter with God, something not found in Protestantism.
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?
Sorry NL...You couldn't be further from the truth...
1Co 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1Co 6:19 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?
1Co 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
These passages are clearly to the individual...NOT the Body as a group...This is personal...One on one from God to you, or me...
Rom 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Rom 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Rom 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Rom 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
God makes it so very clear...If the Holy Ghost does not dwell within your body, NOT the body of the church, but anyone's body, that person is none of Jesus Christ's...
Any person who calls him/herself a Christian who does not have the Holy Spirit dwelling within his/her body is deceived and is not a Christian...
Catholicism is a faith of all of the senses, smells and bells if you will. The presence of a relic gives us a very real and fully tangible encounter with God, something not found in Protestantism.
It's not found in Protestantism because it's not real...Besides, who could be satisfied with an encounter with God??? Certainly not me or any Christians I know...We have God living in us 24/7...That's an encounter you can't beat...
You guys don't get that, do ya??? There's a very good reason you don't get that...