Susan,
Your comments on Jesus as the temple I agree with entirely. However John is right when he says that many evangelicals believe the temple will be literally rebuilt. This is called Dispensationalism (God interacts with the world through "dispensations" of truth). The best example is that of a cattle rancher who lives ten miles north of town named Straka who was convinced by the Pentecostal minister at his country church that Jesus could not return until several thousand head of purebred red angus cattle were sent to Israel to be sacrificed. Straka's Red Angus Ranch went bankrupt about four years ago, poor guy. Not a single cow made it to Israel. A more mainstream example of dispensationalism is the theologian Tim LaHaye, co-Author of the Left Behind series. This series details the temples rebuilding and all kinds of other literally interpreted bible prophecies. Dispensationalists take a more literal view of Biblical prophecy than the one common in Calvinist traditions like Korean Presbyterianism (and my own Reformed Baptism). In fact, my church here in O'Neill is Dispensationalist.

posted by Matthew Schmitz   [12:18 PM]

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