Corpo é o templo de Deus: o que isso significa?
O que significa o corpo ser templo de Deus
Dizer que o corpo é templo de Deus significa que o Espírito Santo habita de fato naquele que crê em Cristo. Por ter sido resgatado por Deus, o corpo físico não pertence mais exclusivamente aos desejos do indivíduo, mas ao Senhor, devendo ser dedicado a honrá-lo.
Em Corinto, cidade grega onde a separação filosófica entre alma e matéria servia de pretexto para a imoralidade, o apóstolo Paulo combateu a ideia de que o comportamento físico não afeta a comunhão com o Criador. O resgate operado na cruz abrange a pessoa por inteiro:
What? know you2f not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit [Ruach HaKodesh] [which is] in you, which you2f have of God-The Father, and you2f are not your own?
For you2f are bought with a price: therefore glorify God-The Father in your body, and in your Spirit [Ruach], which are God-The Father’s.(1 Corinthians 6:19,20)
O templo individual e a comunidade
O Novo Testamento emprega a figura do santuário em duas dimensões complementares: a pessoa de cada crente e a igreja reunida.
Enquanto em 1 Coríntios 6 Paulo trata da pureza pessoal, em 1 Coríntios 3 ele adverte contra as divisões que destroem a comunidade local. A igreja congregada também constitui o santuário do Deus vivo:
Know you2f not that you2f are the temple of God-The Father, and [that] the Spirit [Ruach] of God-The Father dwells in you?
If any man defile the temple of God-The Father, him shall God-The Father destroy; for the temple of God-The Father is holy, which [temple] you2f are.(1 Corinthians 3:16,17)
And what agreement has the temple of God-The Father with idols? for you2f are the temple of the living God-The Father; as God-The Father has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God-The Father, and they shall be my people.(2 Corinthians 6:16)
Essa habitação divina coletiva cumpre a promessa do Antigo Testamento de que o Senhor habitaria no meio do Seu povo. Os crentes formam pedras vivas de um edifício sagrado cuja pedra angular é Cristo:
Now therefore you2f are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God-The Father;
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah] himself being the chief corner [stone];
In whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto an holy temple in the Lord - Kurios:
In whom you2f also are built together for an habitation of God-The Father through the Spirit [Ruach].(Ephesians 2:19-22)
For every house is built by some [man]; but he that built all things [is] God-The Father.
And Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] truly [was] faithful in all his house, as a slave, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
But Moshiach [Messiah] as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.(Hebrews 3:4-6)
A presença interior de Cristo
No tabernáculo e no templo de Jerusalém, a presença de Deus ficava restrita ao Santo dos Santos, acessível apenas ao sumo sacerdote uma vez ao ano. Na Nova Aliança, o próprio Senhor faz morada no coração dos que o amam:
Yeshua [God is Salvation] answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.(John 14:23)
I am crucified with Moshiach [Messiah]: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Moshiach [Messiah] lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God-The Father, who loved me, and gave himself for me.(Galatians 2:20)
Essa realidade concede livre acesso à presença divina e impõe ao crente a responsabilidade de viver de acordo com a dignidade dessa morada:
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Yeshua [God is Salvation],
By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
And [having] an High Priest over the house of God-The Father;
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.(Hebrews 10:19-22)
But you2f [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar (particular; special; one’s own) people; that you2f should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:(1 Peter 2:9)
Para compreender o contexto histórico e as orientações práticas sobre o uso do corpo na vida cristã, leia 1 Coríntios 6 completo.
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