God saved us for the purpose for making us human temples, inhabited by his Spirit. During Old Testament days, God dwelt within the inner room of the temple—a place called the Holy of Holies. That’s where he made his home. When Paul said Christians were the “temples of the Holy Spirit” (1 Cor. 6:19), the word he used for “temple” was not the word used for the outer rooms of the Old Testament temple. It was naos, which referred to the inner sanctum, the place where there was a visible manifestation