solid_core
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To say that Paul as an inspired apostle had no idea that Romans will destroy the temple, when Jesus predicted it several times, is quite a silly presupposition. Jesus clearly said that it will happen and that it will happen in his generation and some of the ones who were standing around when Jesus said that will be still alive.The church was born at the Day of Pentecost and the arrival of tongues signalled the coming of the kingdom of God through Christ. Judaism ceased when Jesus died on the cross, not with the destruction of the Temple in 70AD. Paul had no idea that the Romans were going to invade and destroy the Temple when he wrote 1 Corinthians.
Jesus came into His kingdom when he took the penitent thief to Paradise.
I don't know where you got the notion that the kingdom of God started with the destruction of the Temple. It certainly does not come from Scripture because there are no references to it. And nothing in the writings of the church fathers support it either. Therefore your view is not mainstream Christianity at all.
Augustine did believe in his early ministry that the gifts had passed away, but he changed his position in his later ministry after being overwhelmed with evidence to the contrary in his churches. He told the Pope that he believed that the gifts were continuing, but the Roman church suppressed his new view, and stuck with his old view. Church History 101!!!
So I think that your doctrinal view went down with the Titanic!!
The immanent coming of God's kingdom and the end of the age was one of the central ideas of New Testament writings.
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