Featured 4 Steps to the Baptism of the Holy Spirit by Evan Roberts

I believe that the phrase "house of God" is used approximately 88 times in all of Scripture. Prior to 1 Tim. 3:15 it is used SOLELY for the established appointed public house of worship, with appointed and qualified ministry that administered appointed and qualified offerings and ordinances. This is its SOLE and ONLY usage prior to 1 Tim. 3:15. Notice the context of 1 Tim. 3:1-5 is also a qualified and appointed ministry. Paul was a Jew and Timothy to whom he writes was raised by a Jewish mother and Grandmother under the Old Testament Scriptures. The very phrase "house of God" had only one possible meaning in the mind of the Jew and that sole meaning was the institutional house for public worship where an ordained ministry administered the ordinances.

 

The context is his PHSYICAL body not the temple of the OT. The context of 1 Tim. 3:15 is not his PHYSICAL body either. Again, 1 Tim. 3:15 is the 85th use of this phrase and every single solitary instance prior to this text refers to the INSTITUTION appointed by God for PUBLIC worship where the ordinances are administered by a qualified ordained ministry as in the context of 1 Tim. 3;1-13. Sorry, that you don't like the facts, but the facts are simply the facts.