The Temple of God is the body. Hmmm. Think about that. It can and is viewed two ways, generally, by those who have actually read the Bible. #1 is that your human body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit, that God lives inside of you, and #2 is that all believers make up the Body of Christ, so that "the body" is the Temple of God. Both are true, simultaneously. It all begins with the individual. Without an individual, there is no combination of individuals -- so there is the solitary person, and then there is the grouping together of solitary persons.
Notice that this truth is different than is presented in almost any and every "church" today? They turn it around to: we are the selected ones, we are the glowing group, and if you join us, you too can be a glowing one, an "anointed one." Join us. Join us. Join us.
Kind of like a zombie movie. The shambling, rotting corpses, closing in on you, staggering, hardly able to walk, stinking in their decomposition, usually chanting "Brains!" but for now they chant Join us join us join us join!
Are you a joiner? If not, so sorry. No hope.
You can be a Pepper, too. Just drink Dr. Pepper. Join us, come on. It's a world where gorgeous women are attracted to fat, beer-guzzling men.
See. Open your eyes. Wake up.
Before considering joining the zombies, go to the Fountainhead, go to the Creator, go to the One Who says that if you seek for Him, you will find Him, but only if you seek Him with your whole heart. Have you REALLY sought Him with your whole heart, or have you just joined the bunch of rotting zombies, accepted their chant? Have you become an individual, or have you become a "glowing one," an "anointed one?"
It's not too late. Throw the rotting bits in the garbage, that is all they are worth. Yes, you might be thought rather odd, kind of weird, if you start walking UP the down escalator, but fi the down escalator leads into a flaming pit, you had better turn around, now, and start walking up. Say "Excuse me!" Duck to the left, and squirm to the right, but don't allow the rotting zombies to pull them down with you.
We are saved! they chant, going down...
