No, that's not quite what I'm saying. I'm saying that Jews use the same hermeneutic regarding the 3rd Temple that also led them to reject their messiah, and since you seem to agree that the temple must be built in order to fulfil prophecy, then by definition you are agreeing with their interpretation of the OT, are you not?
There can only be one valid way of interpreting prophecy - the NT way. Nowhere does the Bible give us reason to believe that those who failed to interpret it correctly first time around can still expect their fallacious interpretation to be fulfilled.
God does not reward or honour error by offering Jews a literal secondary fulfilment. That's just plainly nonsensical. The passage of time does not turn error into truth. They were wrong then, and they are still wrong now.
Yes, time will tell who is right. The building of the 3rd Temple ostensibly started in 1967, and still no sign of it 50 years later.
At that rate of construction, it should look a real treat when it's finally finished sometime in the next millennium.
Not quite. He is the way, and has always been the way (Rom. 4; 1 Cor. 10:1-4). There is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved, and it is freely offered to all irrespective of gender, status, national identity or ethnicity.
Again, this puts the kybosh on any possibility of salvation on the basis of Abrahamic descent. 'Do not presume to say to yourselves, "we have Abraham as our father", for I tell you, God is able to make children of Abraham from these stones.' (Mt. 3:9). 'For there is neither Jew nor Gentile...etc' (Gal. 3:28-29 & Col.3:11). And 'he is not a Jew who is one outwardly....' (Rom. 2:28-29).
The whole point of Rom. 4, 9-11; Gal. 3-6 and almost the entire epistle to the Hebrews is to make it clear to Jews that the Gospel is their only and last hope of salvation. There is no Plan B for them. Either they are 'in Christ', part of the body of Christ, His bride, the community of the redeemed, the church invisible, or they are still 'in Adam' (Rom. 5:12-21; 1 Cor. 15:21-22) and therefore dead in their sins.
Those are the only two groups of ppl recognised in the Bible and the entire corpus of credal Christianity. There is no hidden alternative route to salvation. To hold out any other hope to the natural Jew based on physical descent is to be complicit in a cruel and dangerous deception.
As for the rest, I note again your penchant for smoke-screens.
Oh go on. I can take it. I'm a big boy now.
Yes, it was an unfortunate dilution of an uncompromising fact - namely nobody, but nobody, comes to the Father except thru Jesus Messiah.
I know that you know that.
Yes, taking someone behind the shed has different connotations over here - much more pleasant ones at that. However, modesty prohibits me from going into any details, which would probably induce involuntary blushes all round. Just as well you described what it means over there.
As for standing your ground, I would expect nothing less from you. In my experience, enlightenment on these subjects comes in small incremental and painful steps. For me, it was the issue of the restoration of animal sacrifices with or without our High Priest in attendance that started the process rolling. Now, I can think of no aspect of chiliasm that is more repugnant or more inimical to the very heart of the Gospel. Eventually, the flood of light that came with understanding how the writers of the NT interpreted OT 'Kingdom' prophecies was irresistible. That was the final nail in the coffin of my 'earthly paradise,' which in reality was anything but.
Meantime, there is something almost endearing about stubborn adherence to a failed hermeneutic.