When and from whom is the source that for Christians, God dwells in buildings you go to, rather than in believers?
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It started in the Church Christ Built on Peter. The references provided in the original Question work perfectly with Catholic teaching.
The Problem is in the dichotomy of the Question.
God is One.
The Holy Spirit Dwells in the Catholic (believer or Christian) who was made into a new Christian through Baptism. The Holy Spirit is God and can dwell where it wishes in addition to those who possess the obedience of faith.
Christ dwells, body blood soul and divinity in the consecrated host during mass. The bits left over, are not discarded but saved as they are no longer what they once were, instead they are the Person of Christ, aka the second person of the trinity, aka. GOD! These pieces are transported to the sick and elderly by ministers assigned to do so or they are placed in the tabernacle for storage until they can be consumed by those worthy (free of mortal sin) to receive. God dwells body blood soul and divinity within the walls of the Catholic Church.
This understanding of the True Pressance of Christ in the sacrament goes all the way back to the letters of Paul and this, the earliest reference outside the scriptures to the real presence.
Consider how contrary to the mind of God are the heterodox in regard to the grace of God which has come to us. They have no regard for charity, none for the widow, the orphan, the oppressed, none for the man in prison, the hungry or the thirsty. They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not admit that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, the flesh which suffered for our sins and which the Father, in His graciousness, raised from the dead."
Saint Ignatius of Antioch Letter to the Smyrnaeans", paragraph 6. circa 80-110 A.D.
God dwells In the believer and in buildings, once the Catholic Church was free to build buildings and reserve the Eucharist (AKA GOD)
You are, after all, what you eat.
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