From a forum thread: B:-:- [Me quoting K:-] If your body is the temple of God, then what is the altar? It cannot be your heart because we know the heart is evil. What do you think is the altar?
B:- One's heart who loves God and follows His commands it not evil, but righteous! The altar is in heaven.
The original question about an altar in the body was posed on another forum. The question may not have been exactly biblical, so any answer may not be biblically exact.
The natural, soulish, flesh of sin, heart is evil. Jer 17.9.
The redemption of the spirit - John 3.5,6-7 - precedes the redemption of the body - 1Cor 15.54.
It is best for us not to be open to the erroneous interpretation that the act of "loving God and following His commands" makes the heart of a sinner "righteous".
It is best for us not to be open to the erroneous interpretation that the act of "loving God and following His commands" makes the heart of a sinner "righteous".
It is being begotten again - John 3.3 - that makes it possible for one to choose God from the heart - Rom 6.17 - and to love Him from the heart - Rom 5.5 - and to receive the gift of righteousness - Rom 5.17 - in a crucified heart - Rom 6.6 - through the circumcision of Christ - Col 2.11 - and later in a living heart through the circumcision of the heart - Deut 30.6 - and the replacement of the heart of stone with a heart spiritually of the flesh of our Lord - Ezek 36.26, in the likeness of the flesh of sin - Rom 8.3, yet without sin - Heb 4.15
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