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Westminster Theological Journal, Volume 35.

(Eph. 2:21); the body is built as a temple (Eph. 4:12, 16).49 Christ is the cornerstone of the structure, the Lord in whom the New Temple exists. Just as the church is one with Christ in his body and as his body-temple, so the individual believer is a temple of the Lord. The principles are the same. The believer’s body is joined to Christ’s body. A Christian cannot become one flesh with a harlot because he has become one Spirit with Christ (1 Cor. 1:16, 17). Again—this “spiritual” union is not less
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