Jews, dont you find it weird that the NT came about just as the temple was destroyed?

Gee, I never thought of that. Interesting.

Lion your dates are screwed up in your head.

1st jesus died almost 40 years before the Temple was destroyed.

2nd the NT as we know it didn't exist until the 4th century

3rd if you want to get super technical SOME of the NT writings have been around since 60 CE but thats 10 years off of the temple destruction.

as for the Temple not being rebuilt there are so many more reasons why and none of them have anything to do with the creation and continued existence of the NT.

Why would we not have the NT? Once someone writes a book, if it becomes popular, it can last. We still have the Qu'ran, the Book of Mormon and Dianetics, too. Of course we still have the OT, even though the NT was supposed to have fulfilled the OT. As for the NT coming about at around the same time as the temple was destroyed, that looks more like opportunism than anything else.

It's extremely strange. The Messiah is supposed to gather all Jews to Israel and rebuild our Temple - that's how we know he is the Messiah. Whereas Jesus came, the Temple was destroyed, and Jews were exiled out of Jerusalem for thousands of years. A thinking person might almost say that that puts Jesus's pretentions to being the Messiah on very, very shaky ground.

Yet somehow, it doesn't.

Weird, indeed.

I've always found it weird that the "NT" tells a story of the temple being destroyed in Jesus' time, when in fact it was destroyed decades later.

I'm not sure what you're getting at, but I don't see a connection.

romans destroyed the temple.

christians invented their religion to make people to give up emperor worship.

it's as simple as that.

there's absolutely nothing weird about it at all; it's called cause and effect.

you want to be a christian, good for you. but let's stop with all the pretense about the origins of your faith and with the looking down your noses at everybody else.

edit: excellent story mama. i wasn't aware of that; the christian translation must be very different. it also reinforces the chronology of christianity. i don't remember all the technical terms, but the galilleans are believed to have organized after a major rebellion was crushed, they created their exclusive sect and its new god and went on rebelling, resulting in the destruction of the temple. funny how it all fits together with jewish scripture, huh?

[by the way, nazareth was a trash dump ca. 1 c.e., but was a town ca. 60 c.e. -- the writers of the gospels should have talked to the old timers]

answer: no, the NT didn't come into existence in 70 C.E. It took hundreds of years before the NT was formed. Why did bible scholars list hundreds of "gospels" by 200 C.E. and only 4 made it into the new religion once Constantine was done?

Wasn't it 40 years after (in 70ad) the the temple was destroyed.

Which New testament ? the Book of Mormon ?

Surely the rebuilding of the Temple is one of the tasks the Messiah will do ?

lulz... it's very simple

first of all, the Temple was destroyed by Jews (under seige by Romans) not "Pagans".

the destruction of the Temple meant that Judaism needed to be re-organized (because the Temple was a central part of worship).

Judaism split into different sects... much of judiasm replaced the temple with the dinner table, as well as the synagogue. Christianity started out as one of these new Jewish sects.

Leave it alone Lion, Romans 11:25

The spiritual temple has replaced the physical temple.

The human body is the new temple of G-d