GOD has been shaping my life since as IIRC a 12 year old I surrendered my life to Jesus as Lord and Savior. I've fallen may times since especially in my youth. GOD forgives. My life changed radially when I was 26. I was very happily married and all seemed right the morning I kissed my wife 23 at the time and said I'll pick you up[ at your moms on the way home. She was riding to her moms with my dad as it was on his way too work and way out of the way for me.
I got to work and had to go to another facility {nursing home{ to do a walk in cooler repair and the part I was working on was on the roof. I had gotten there and got set up when a co-worker pulled up and said hey come down here a second. I climbed down and he said call your dad. Somethings you just know in your heart before you are told. I called him and he said you need to come home. I asked him how long ago he said right after you left she collapsed in the driveway and I couldn't bring her back. My dad and I were so close we could almost know what the other was thinking. When I got home the ambulance was still there and the coroner was on the way but she was gone from a massive heart attack.
I took some time off a couple of weeks and went back to work. My boss after two days asked me if I would take a job at another facility where their HVAC guy had quit. I said I'll call you tonight and let you know. It was on a Friday. I thought about it and figured I like the crew I'm with now so I'll stay. I called my boss and said Yea I'll take the job. I said it so I did it. The most irrelevant choices in your life can become the choice that changes your life forever.
Monday I was at my new work place working on A/C units and doing electrical work. After a month or so I became friends with a Nurses Aide. Her husband had left her and her two kids a couple years earlier and she was in the final part of her divorce. We ate lunch together every day and then I was calling and talking to her after work. She had been abused all her life. We started going to the movies and we took the kids. I didn't mind. It was on a day we both were off our life together changed forever.
We were to meet at the mall to see a couple of movies. The day before we had been to the lake and had a fun day out with the kids walking the lank bank. She was late getting to the mall and when she pulled in I sensed something wasn't right. The kids were upset also.
WE went inside and sat down at the food court. I asked her what was wrong was her ex stalking her again she said NO. She got up and went somewhere a minute and came back. She said I feel real sick. I said OK were going to the hospital. She tried to stand and collapsed too the floor. I ran out and got her car {I had an open Jeep} and carried her out of the mall to her car. A cop pulled in behind me and asked which Hospital? I told him and he said stay close to me. He ran lights and siren with us behind him. On the way there she was describing to me what can only be her process of passing form this world into the next.
We got to the ER. Her arms were at her chest and would not come down. The doctors didn't think she would make it. Next day they still had no answers A week in ICU no answers. Two preachers from a church she had gone too but left to go to another one came by and laid hands on her for healing.
I can not adequately describe what happened next. I was overcome with a peace I have never before or sense felt and a presence of a being in Spirit. I heard a voice telling me "It's going to be OK". She felt the presence but only I heard the words.
Now some may say GOD is giving her a miracle of healing. Yet in the days to come only her hands, arms, neck, and trunk came back. In spinal cord injuries or issues after six months that is generally it the extent of healing has already happened.
During the first month I asked her to marry me and she said yes. We married in the chapel of a Catholic Hospital with her preacher doing the ceremony. I took the girls with me too my parents until she was ready to come home which was four months away and after rehab.
Our first year was the hardest. She was having to deal with being a quadriplegic and I was learning to be a caregiver and a dad. This was in 1985 BTW. My first wife died in May. I was married again in November. It wasn't how we wanted to start a life together but it was what was handed us.
For the first ten years more things happened including her nearly dieing twice, our daughter in a serious car accident where upon arriving on scene I thought she was dead, my own car accident where I thought a baby died but had simply slept through it after the baby's mom rear ended my 78 Blazer. Then came my own health issues in 1994.
So what was that I heard? "It's going to be OK" right? Yes. Sometimes persons are lifted out of their troubles or adversities. When they aren't so it is when Christ appeared in the furnace in the Old Testament HE IS THERE WITH YOU.
It's 2012 and were still happily married. Through the Grace of GOD we beat many odds. My wife never had anyone but her grandmother in her life who loved her unconditionally for who she is. The rest abused her or abandoned her. As for me? It made me far more closer to My Lord and Savior count on His guidance and strength. While the answers we sought were not the answers we were given we have had a great life together and It's been OK. Without that happening without that assurance at that point in my life I could have well bolted out the door and never looked back. GOD had a plan for peoples lives including the girls and their kids that followed.
Learning about GOD and your relationship with Jesus Christ is within your heart not within the walls of a church. Our bodies are Temples. Our Spirit in which The Holy Spirit ministers truth too for those whom He loves and will listen and obey.
Oh yea I forgot to mention why the kids were upset when they got too the mall. She had gone blind several times driving there and had nearly collapsed pumping gas. She had to have the girls spot my jeep in the parking lot of the mall but told them not too tell me what had happened.
And yet a few years back...when I went into an LDS bookstore & thumbed thru a thick, extensive book on the history of church/religious temples, there was nary a mention of this reference from the two Corinthian letters that you cite here...
IOW, what better evidence exists than to Mormons -- the writer/researchers of that book and the Mormon bookstore people who distributed it -- the only significant temples are those built not by God, but by man.