Praxeas wrote,
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I ask again, why was the man made temple Solomon built called "House of God"? Why did Jesus call Herod's temple "My Father's house"?
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The difference is, God promised to meet them there. Sometimes in a physical way. The Schikina Glory, fire, smoke, etc., God told the Priests and Prophets what to tell the people, and they obeyed with Rituals of sacrifices of animals. Trying their best to live as righteous a life as they could, without the benefit of the Holy Ghost dwelling within. With their Adamic nature not changed.
Where does God meet people today?
Where two or Three are gathered together in My Mane, I will be in the midst of them. The difference is, A New Covenant. A New and Living Way.
The building does not matter. But when emphasis is that we meet God there, and the worship is centered around a building, then in most people's minds, (young people—sinners--shallow Christians, that don't study) They don't get it, that when a person is 'born again, we take God with us wherever we go. We are then the Temple of God. We are the Priesthood of God. We don't have to wait to get to a building, to feel the presence of God. We are to live righteous holy lives as if God Himself was walking right beside us. Although He is even closer than beside us, some people can not comprehend that He is living inside of us,
ALL OF THE TIME. Not just when we go to a certain designated building.
If we sin, He is right there, grieving over our sin, and trying to call us to repentance.
If we meet with 2 or 3 in the middle of a sidewalk, IN HIS NAME, He is right there.
If we pray,
ANYWHERE, He is there, He hears---unless our sin has separated us from God, by the hardness of our heart, because we have refused to listen for His voice, and our conscience is seared over like as with, a hot iron.
All of us are having trouble hearing His voice, because of the busyness of “the thorns and weeds” in our life.
Because of wrong teaching.
Because of presumptuous sins. (Thinking, “Oh well, I'm just human, God will forgive me if I sin.”)
Because of ignorance, of sins like pride, greed, anger, hate, little white lies, (so-called.), jealousy etc,.
Of justifying ourselves thinking, “I'm just as good as the next person”. And we are, but that person that we are looking at, might not be a very good person.
It is time to come out of this willful ignorance and live as we are meant to live, seeking true holiness of the spirit, casting out every evil imagination and unholy thought.
It is time for God's people to find out what The Catholic Church has brought into the TRADITIONS of all Denominations through Paganism.
AND COME OUT OF HER.