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I hate to nitpick, but the BODIES of Christians are not "in God's temple" right now, though metaphorically perhaps their souls may be, since we are told their souls are not dead to the Lord...

Study, brother, Study for the time is short.

Crystalk, you quoted me as saying the bodies of Christians are "in the temple", but I said they "are the temple". I give you the following verse:

Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple. (1 Corinthians 3:16,17)

By "you", Paul meant Christians. The point here is, in my opinion, that God's presence is around Christians, who are his temple now, and not around the ruins of an ancient, man-made temple.

And I'm still unclear as to how the renewal of animal sacrifices at the temple will be of any benefit to Christians. I believe that Christ's sacrifice was sufficient.

1Co 6:19 Or 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,