The Temple of God

It is a universal practice among the followers of the various religions to construct buildings, later consecrated as sacred in which it is supposed that God is present and where he is to be worshipped. There, elaborate rituals are performed and obeisance and worship are offered to man-made images in wood, stone and metal. Sometimes, food is even left out for the gods to consume, though the reality is that it is either taken by the priests or eaten by rodents. …

Mystics of all times and places have spoken out against the futility of such practices. Just as they have called the body a house or a clay pot, they have also described it as the temple of God. For they say that the real place in which God is to be worshipped is within the temple of the human form.

Man, however, being more inclined to believe that God dwells within the buildings made by his own hands, neglects the temple made by God, the human form, in which the mystics say he does, in fact reside. Indeed, so outward has man’s attention become and so circumscribed his understanding, that if someone desecrates or makes disparaging remarks about the man-made building that he thinks to be so sacred, he will go out and murder thousands of the natural temples made by God. Yet man can, with effort, rebuild any church or mosque or temple, but he is quite incapable of creating even the simplest life form, let alone a human being.

The body, then is the temple of the living God, the God who is the source of life and being, and he is to be found within this temple. This is the living temple, designed by the living God, expressly for the purpose of His living worship.
_{The Gospel of Jesus}