1Tim 3:15 Uphold the Truth

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Uphold the Truth

1Tim 3:15 "but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth."

The house of God is that place which God dwells. In the Old Testament he dwelt in the temple at Jerusalem. Now he dwells in the church. Realize of course that "church" is not referring to a building, much as many have a misconception on this point. The word "church" is the Greek word ekklesia which simply means an assembly. The church is the collective assembly of the believers.

It is also significant to realize that the "church" is not simply the institutional leaders of institutional churches which form the pillar and ground of truth, but rather the entire of the genuinely Christian community even to the least member. For it is through the Christian community that the New Testament was written, and through the Christian community Biblical truth is revealed both in word and in life. And this as opposed to the Catholic idea which presumes truth to evolve over time with the opinions of the institutional leadership. Christians are not the origin, but the pillars of the faith. We uphold the truth. We don't generate it. Likewise will be our destiny.

Re 3:12 "He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God."