So...I shouldn't need to say much, but basically, we have the idea that the Temple of God is...well, Christ. And in our union with Christ, we become the Temple of God. That means that individual Christians, with the Spirit dwelling within us, are the Temple and the Church as a whole, is the Temple. And we see from Revelation that the idea follows through...this image of a person being made a 'pillar' in the temple. It's an image of our union with Christ. Our being "In Christ".
The Scripture evidence for a future sanctuary existing for Christ's future reign with His elect, what He called "My Father's house" in John 14, shouldn't be doubted as being a literal structure on earth, even though more of the details for it are given in the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel. Same goes for God's River returning that was once upon this earth.
But there are certain men crept in that play upon Biblically ignorant minds, teaching that these things written in God's Word are but myths, mystic spiritualizations, and they instead seek to change what The Father and His Son are going to establish upon this earth and instead replace it with their dreamed up castles in the sand organizations that on the day of Christ's return will perish like the wind. Many brethren in a lot of today's Churches don't realize how they're being setup for the coming one-world religion and one-world government under the Antichrist. For that to be successful they have... to downplay the Scripture evidence I gave in my previous post about the future Millennial sanctuary ("house") our Lord Jesus and His elect will reign over all nations from when He returns.
From this point of view, and following this clear line of thinking from the scriptural passages, it's not at all hard to believe some wolf will set himself up in the Church. How many false teachers do we have now? Prosperity teachers? Emergent teachers...maybe even the current Pope.
So, while you are correct in asserting that no corruption could come to Christ, or the Spirit that dwells within us, that's not really the direction this is taking. If someone is to set himself up as a leader "proclaiming himself to be God", it would be in the Church, not to oneself, and as we know, the church is not foolproof against corruption.
No false one can sit in the spiritual temple that Apostle Paul described. Like I said, for anyone being able to do that, whether a pope, a king, or a president, it would mean the very 'foundation' of Christ's Salvation, which is what the spiritual temple idea represents, would fall to the ground! That theory you present of the true spiritual temple being able to be corrupted simply is a white-washed wall that when the rains come it falls to the ground. Christ's Salvation is True, and that is what the spiritual temple represents, for ONLY those worthy that remain in Jesus Christ will be a part of it joined with Jesus and His Apostles and prophets.
Sure...that's totally what I'm suggesting. Take any verse in the OT, and make it say whatever you want now it's NT times. Go crazy!
Those little prep false statements don't really work. Just because you're Biblically ignorant of OT and NT Scripture like what I presented in my previous post doesn't mean you can just assign it all as 'making it say whatever one wants'. That's a very Biblically illiterate assumption. It has to be proven. The Biblical fact is, both the idea of a literal future sanctuary on earth is presented, and the idea of a spiritual temple with our Lord Jesus, His Apostles, and prophets as the spiritual foundation, also exists in Scripture. Yet the spiritual foundation of Apostle Paul's Epistles never denies the Scriptures I showed about The Father's house our Lord Jesus mentioned, and that OT Scriptures reveals in more detail for the future.
Thus the real difference between those like you and me, is that you've been taught to scrap any Scripture evidence pointing to the future literal sanctuary to be established on earth, while I recognize Scripture about it being established in the future beginning our Lord Jesus' return, and that being the idea of the foundation that Apostle Paul was speaking of... spiritually. Now in God's future eternity, the new heavens and a new earth which He will establish after... Jesus reigns with His elect over the nations for a thousand years, in that time, there will be no more sanctuary or temple (Rev.21:22). But notice there even, the 12 tribes of Israel will still exist on earth, as also the new Jerusalem and its walls and 12 gates. Christ's Apostles will rule sitting upon 12 thrones like He promised them also.
Therefore, this pretty well disproves men's suppositions of Christ's kingdom being about just some mystical state inside our minds. Christ's Salvation per God's Word will manifest as a literal Kingdom in the future at His return. His name is "King of kings, and Lord of lords", meaning He will rule in His Kingdom over the nations with a rod of iron, as He was promised (Ps.2, Rev.2).
More on the mystical state idea of trying to spiritualize Christ's future Kingdom in the world to come. When Apostle Paul used the idea of a spiritual temple to represent Christ's Salvation, it was because during THIS world, we only have the 'hope' and His 'promise' of the Kingdom to come. It is NOT... to be established in the outward literal sense on earth until He returns. That is why Paul used such figure of speech when speaking of a spiritual temple idea. The danger with loosing focus on that point is with listening to crept in unawares who practice mysticism...
Mysticism is a 'practice', an attempt to use spiritual exercises to awaken one's psychic, hidden things of the spirit. Those have taken what our Lord Jesus said in Luke 17 about the kingdom of God being 'within you', and turned it into some idea of ascetic mystic occult practice. The occult secret fraternities of initiation even teach their students that our Lord Jesus Himself was one of them, and that He was so attuned... to the Cosmic, that He had the Kingdom inside Himself! They also say that Buddha, Zoroaster, etc., all did the same thing! In reality, those occultists follow the Devil himself who wants to trick people into denying that Jesus is GOD The Son, and instead think that our Lord Jesus was only just a prophet like Moses, etc., and not at all God in the flesh (Immanuel).