Are our bodies like prison cells?

[Robert_Sock]

Do you mean we are compelled to sin every day?

Yes, in small ways (not necessarily mortal sin), but, for example, whenever we do not give God proper attention or recognition.

So everyone who doesn’t confess their sins goes to hell?

Yes, people who die in mortal sin do go to hell. Then there’s the accumulation of venial sins that we must contend with.

“paves the way” implies that the body is intended by God to be a source of temptation. Do you believe that?

Something happened to the human body during the sin of Adam and Eve that allowed the body to be the source of sin.

So beautiful statues, paintings and cathedrals are regarded as sources of temptation and shunned by nuns and monks?

Beauty in the worship of God is advocated by monastic monks and nuns, but not beauty otherwise.

How do you explain what Jesus said?

Jesus is not telling us to ‘worship’ lilies, but is merely making a comparison.