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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
That is your own or your denomination's own interpretation however. You cannot state it as a fact like this because the meaning is arbitrary and indeterminate. "you all" could just as easily be interpreted to mean that all people are god's temple.
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It could mean all people are God's temple if that was who he was writing to. Paul was writing to the church in Corinth and dealing with sin within their fellowship. Forget what your denomination taught and read it in context of who Paul was writing to.
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Your conclusion however that "temple" refers to the local church or congregation as a body or institution, makes the least exegetical sense when just on the next page I Corinthians 6:19 says "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit?".
Not that I believe in any of this stuff anymore but I still try to figure out why people rationalize it and why it makes sense to them and shapes their views.
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Again the "your" in that verse is plural and the word "body" is not. It has to be refering to the body they were all a part of.