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Matthew 12:6“ἱερόν is employed in the N. T. either explicitly of the whole temple,
One greater than the temple complex, i.e "the church building" = Jesus, who referred to His own body as the naos
Jesus never left the naos in Matthew 24:1 . He was not allowed into the naos, because He was not a priest. Whenever Jesus is spoken about as being in the temple, the word hieron is used. Your argument has no bearing on the facts which I have shown repeatedly in this thread - it merely confirms what I have been saying.
The same goes for all the other verses you quote:
In the religious sense of the use of the words (i.e whenever the words are used in reference to the Tabernacle of God), naos refers to what is considered holy (consecrated, i.e set apart unto God), but hieron refers to the profane (what is not considered holy).
The outer courts and precincts of the temple in Jerusalem (the buildings and the structure) were not considered holy. Only the inner court (or “holy place”) and the most holy place (or “holy of holies”) were considered holy, always denoted by the word naos.
Every single Christian who honestly approaches the scriptures and who reads each and every verse listed in the two links to the lexicon pages I provided in numerous posts (which includes every single verse in scripture where both the words hieron and naos appear), will, unlike you, be able to see for themselves that due to the fact that:
(1) Naos is never again used in reference to the temple in Jerusalem following the verses talking about the tearing of the veil
The above FACT makes it obvious that:
(2) Before the verses talking about the tearing of the veil, hieron is talking about the temple buildings.
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Using the two Greek words in our modern Christian context, the church building = the hieron (it’s just a building), but the congregation of the saints who together make up the actual church (the actual sanctuary) = the naos. Take the saints who congregated in the building (the hieron) and let them congregate somewhere else (maybe they got a new church building somewhere), and the church building (hieron) that is still standing is still the hieron: The pulpit is still there, and the platform that the pulpit stands on is still there too, but the naos has left the premises.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
2 Peter 2:1. False theology taught by teachers who twist the scriptures knowingly after the truth has been shown them makes the teacher a false teacher (they don't have to all teach the same heresies or do the same things as those Peter is describing in 2 Peter 2).Failure to recognize and refusal to accept the truth is an extremely dangerous game for Christians to play, because the coming of the man of sin will be "according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie, so that all those who do not believe the truth, but delight in unrighteousness, might be condemned." (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12).
If someone refuses to accept the very foundational premise of the faith of Christ, which is what both He and His apostles taught from the beginning, that the temple in Jerusalem no longer contained anything holy or was considered in any way consecrated to God after Christ died, then one wonders why some people fail to understand what all Christians understand and believe, then one has to wonder who such a person really believes in: His own imagination about what Christianity is all about that is not based on one of the foundational truths of Christianity? Or someone else's imagination?
Since Jesus died on the cross, no part of any physical building, be it a temple or a church, is considered the naos. Since the Day of Pentecost, the naos = the living stones who are those who belong to Christ.
@claninja Hieron is the physical structure in Jerusalem which housed the naos until Jesus died on the cross.
Hieron is the physical structure (the church building) inside which the naos now congregates.
The man of sin will seat himself up in the naos.
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