[aMorePerfectUnion]

So, are these people heretics: Luther, Knox, Calvin, and the Protestant theologians in the 1600’s & 1700’s ?

Well, if you say so. I wouldn't have myself.

And why doesn’t Revelation refer to the temples destruction as having occured in the —past— ?

Why do you insist it - should - ?

[WildHighlander57]

aMorePerfectUnion wrote: "<> Well, if you say so. I wouldn't have myself. And why doesn’t Revelation refer to the temples destruction as having occured in the —past— ? Why do you insist it - should - ?" OK, I do --NOT-- consider Luther, Knox, Calvin, and the Protestant theologians in the 1600’s & 1700’s to be heretics. They taught a preterist viewpoint, with which I agree. The early Christians were aware of the Jewish practices (temple sacrifices, etc), and --IF-- the temple had already been destroyed by the time Revelations was written, Revelations would have made note of it. The fact that Revelations does --NOT-- mention it, means that the event of 70 A.D. had not yet occurred. The other books of the NT from Acts onward do NOT mention the temple having been destroyed. In the Gospels, Jesus --predicts-- the temple's destruction. Therefore all thru the NT the temple's destruction is a future event.