Doctor Strangelove
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It's really hard for some to break their literal approach to scripture after being rooted in it.
I followed it for a long time because after God saved me, I went to an Independent Fundamental Baptist church.."Sword of The Lord" and all that.
I was rooted and grounded in that approach to scripture. The preferred bible of my church was the Scofield Reference Bible. I'm glad I never bought one though.
My own personal study is really what started me to question much of what I had learned.
This leads me to this third temple thinking. The NT writings make it so clear that the temple is the body of believers built on the apostles and prophets, with Jesus as the cornerstone.
Jesus put an end to animal sacrifice and offering in the temple. This is really something it's hard to get some to see.
A very serious problem is that the dispensationalists have the sacrifices being re-instituted during what they think of as the millennium. This means that Christ's sacrifice was not enough. I have also heard dispensationalist teachers say that in the millennium, the age of grace is over and it is back to the law, only this time with Jesus ruling on an earthly throne. I have heard some say that the earth will be restored to perfect conditions and this will make it easy for many people to obey all of the law. So according to this way of thinking, Christ's sacrifice was not enough and evidently in the future people will be saved by keeping the law. I have observed that certain legalistic churches are drawn to this type of thinking, after all, the "millennium" does away with that awkward business of grace and people are forced to save themselves by obeying the law.
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