Living-stones imagery uses building and temple language to describe believers joined to Christ, built into a spiritual house, and made a holy dwelling for God.
Living-stones imagery uses building and temple language to describe believers joined to Christ, built into a spiritual house, and made a holy dwelling for God.
An ecclesial-temple motif in which believers are treated as living construction materials, joined to the living Stone, and formed into a priestly house and divine dwelling.
These examples show how Living Stones and Spiritual House Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
daughters may be as corner stones
The household is described through polished architectural beauty and strength.
upon this rock I will build my church
Jesus uses building language for the establishment of his church.
ye are God’s building
The church is pictured as God’s constructed work.
ye are the temple of God
Corporate believers are described as God’s temple.
ye are the temple of the living God
Temple identity grounds holiness and separation.
groweth unto an holy temple
The community is an expanding temple structure in the Lord.
builded together for an habitation of God
Believers together become God’s dwelling by the Spirit.
whose house are we
God’s house imagery is applied to faithful believers.
as unto a living stone
Christ is the living Stone rejected by men but chosen by God.
ye also, as lively stones, are built up
Believers are living stones in a spiritual house and holy priesthood.
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