Why must our bodies be holy temples, worthy of the Spirit of God?

Thomas R. Valletta

“The light of Christ is given to every person born into the world (see John 1:9; Moroni 7:16; see also D&C 84:46). ‘And every man whose spirit receiveth not the light is under condemnation’ (D&C 93:31). Likewise, the Holy Ghost ‘may descend upon [a person] and not tarry with him’ (D&C 130:23). … Those who drive out the Holy Ghost and the light of Christ will, in the last day, be filthy and ‘he who is filthy shall remain in his filthiness’ (Alma 7:21) and cannot dwell in the kingdom of God (see 1 Nephi 15:33)” (Nyman, Record of Alma, 94).

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