Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
the christian view also requires mass bloodshed... at least in this day and age. for the return of jesus you've gotta have the 3rd temple... to get
the third temple you have to desecrate the dome of the rock and continue a massive conflict.

And yet NONE of that is even subjectively found in the bible! Unless one just totally ignores what they don't like!
The Temple of Solomon is more than likely
(I'd bet my life on it, if wagers were required) in the Valley of Megiddo - they've found much to
support that, archaeologically, and NOTHING of note, to date, at the traditional site of Herod's temple...
HOW SAD that it is more important to maintain a destructive imperialistic attitude than it is to get along...how equally sad that controlling DIRT is
more important than showing the world what one's GOD is truly all about....
The Q'uran speaks to and of Israelites...and NO ONE on the 'Christian' and 'Jewish' side EVER speaks about HOW, WHEN, WHERE, and WHY 'jihad'
first began...
The rock of Gibraltar and the Barbary coast...around the time of the Renaissance and the first landing by Crown representatives at Plymouth
rock...perhaps one rock...no, two rocks, forcefully, violently, and illegally TAKEN is ultimately justified
(made right, that is, by the hidden
unstoppable force of KARMA on her black horse riding third) by one rock coveted by three peoples being GIVEN to the most despised
one...permanently!
It does seem that the one, two, three towers at (New) York work that way for all THREE of the participants...1190 and then 9/11...Clifford's Tower at
York and then the Twin Towers at New York...
Isaiah chapter 30!
The EASIEST way for the minds of Christians and Jews to dismiss the possibility that GOD truly IS just and truly IS the GOD of not only Isaac and
Jacob but also Ishmael and Esau...is to continue in a blatant disregard for an undeniable scriptural statement which says that very thing!
Islam = IS LAM
LAM(B) of God...
Allah
ALL Alpha's
Heaven?
Who knows? I'm just musing out loud...
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The THIRD temple is flesh and blood. Already built and in many cases, occupied and glorious...but only those who meet the same standards set
from the very beginning:
Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people,
but have
love for your neighbor as for yourself: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:18
Furthermore, the idea of being terrorized is, IMO, a direct result of our own one-sided blindness
(as Americans, that is)...
Not that I am, in any way, disloyal to America or even my own GOD...however, I also have learned, first-hand the priceless value of examining
situations from a dispassionate perspective which does not seek to justify my own mistakes but rather understand all related cause-and-effect of
same...pride LITERALLY DOES go
'before a fall.' Something only fully understood after one has picked one's self up again and sheepishly
looked around...
I LOVE American and am patriotic with an intensity that causes me to want, more than anything, to be proud of my country for legitimate reasons such
as INTEGRITY, GENEROSITY, and JUSTICE...and above all true and actual FREEDOM of both SPEECH and RELIGION...which, presently, I cannot delude myself
is the case - as does the apparent majority.
Nevertheless, I will do what I can to make this a reality rather than a dream!
But when our President hesitates not in making such claims as
'Jesus told me to do it,' how can I but agree with what the President of Iran
said, in his letter to Bush several months ago, regarding such hypocrisy?!?! It IS! Two-times over and doubled-back!
Time to grow up,
forgive, and get along...globally.