What is a human being? The Apostle answers the humans this question: For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people (2 Cor. 6, 16). The Holy Scripture calls every human in general a house, an abode, a vessel. That human who does not want to be a house of God, a vessel of Divine grace, is done a house and a vessel of sin and satan. His unclean spirit, said the Saviour, is gone out of a man, and he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. He saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first (see Matt. 12, 43; Lk. 11, 24–26). A human cannot but be what they are created: they cannot but be a house, a dwelling place, a vessel. It is not given them to stay only with themselves, outside of communication: it is unnatural for them. They may be with themselves only through Divine grace, in its presence, with its action: without it they become alien to themselves and obey unwillingly predominance of the fallen spirits for a voluntary removing themselves from the grace, for trampling of the Creator's aims. The Apostle, reverently contemplating freedom, which God has provided humans to succeed as well as in good, so and in evil during the time of their earthly lives, says: Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. In a great house of the world there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the Master's use (see 1 Pet. 2, 5; 2 Tim. 2, 20–21). Freedom is given, but the will of God remains unchangeable: For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit (1 Thes. 3–5, 7–8). Human becomes a vessel and dwelling place for God through Christianity; the dwelling place is arranged and adorned by the action of the Holy Spirit: ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit (Eph. 2, 22).

St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov).
A word about human