Our body as the Temple of God...Literal or Figure of Speech

As Christians we all know that we are the Temple of God. Most of us read this, ponder it for about 30 seconds, then continue on. There may be more to this though then meets the eye. It is mentioned in the bible 7 times, meaning it is important. I believe that it isn't so much a metaphor an more of an actual fact. In the Torah God gave specific instructions on how the Tabernacle is suppose to be built.

When Solomon built the Temple, it was built in the same fashion except that it included additional areas. New to it was the porch, pillars, and secrete storage areas for the priest. Inside this storage area they used to put false idols and stuff they were not suppose to. In the picture below the brown boxes are these storage areas.

Now when Christ died on the cross, the shroud concealing the Holy of Hollies was torn in half. When the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70AD, they destroyed the Temple for the second time, and it hasn't been rebuilt since.

Now when you look at the architecture of the Temple and the architecture of a person, a very strange thing occurs. Similar to a computer the hardware is our bodies, and the our traits is the software.

Our body's seem to represent exactly how the temple was set up. Our bodies are the actual structure of the temple where everything else dwells. The porch is our will power, is it good, is it bad. Are we allowed into the Holy Place to worship God, or are we doing things that make us unclean? Our Soul is in the inner court, it filters everything we come into contact with, and put things into perspective, more or less our consciousness. The heart is in the holy place. It is the place to which we offer our sacrifices to Christ, as well as ask for forgiveness, and offer worship. Our is located in the Holy of Hollies, where God resides. It is where we have our personal relationship with the Lord. The bible says that only God can separate the Soul and the Spirit. Our subconscious is where we store the skeletons in our closet. Things only we know, our dirty secretes, and things we have long forgotten.

As you can see, saying that we are the Temple of the Lord is much more then a statement, it is more of an extremely high honor. Be aware that it was an extreme offence for the Jews to desecrate the temple by being unclean, just as it is in our bodies This is an amazing example of the divine plan of God. He never ceases to bless me.