The church is a temple where the Holy Spirit dwells. God wants His temple to be a place of peace, worship, and focus. When we divide up and argue about issues that are not of first importance, we risk destroying the temple. We reveal how foolish we really are and we reject the authority of Christ over the church itself. For those reasons, God hates divisiveness within the church and He judges it. We need to constantly ask ourselves: Am I building up the Temple of God or am I tearing it down?