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Originally Posted by zeek
Hey Awareness, what's you're point and what does it have to do with Christianity?
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My point should be obvious. That, the sacking of Jerusalem & the temple was not discussed specifically and in detail in the NT accounts.
And what does it have to do with Christianity?
Oh I don't know. I guess, according to the NT, it had very little at all to do with Christianity... back then ... to NT authors.
But it has everything to do with Bible believing Christians today. Did you know that Israel was founded as a state? And that they've taken Jerusalem back, and the temple mount, just recently?
Maybe you are like Paul. He wrote before the sacking. Even in his pseudepigraphal 2 Thess, it speaks of the son of perdition sitting in the existing temple, exalting himself as God, in the temple that stood in Paul's day. Paul didn't relate Jesus' prophecy to the sacking of the temple. The temple hadn't yet been sacked.
But these verses in 2 Thess, concerning the existing standing temple, are now very important to Bible believers, particularly of the prophecy sort ; who think that they now today relate to the soon coming 3rd temple, cuz it signals Jesus is on his way in the clouds real soon.
Other than that, it has nothing to do with Christianity. In fact, I wish today's Christians thought like the NT authors - minus the extrapolations. But not like the pseudepigrapha 2 Thessalonians.
Thanks for asking. And bro zeek, you should be proud of me. Thanks to you I'm learning better than to just bust out with my infamous, "Bahahahahaha."