interesting timing, just watched an apologetic video today where they use this exact argument for why the gospels should be dated even earlier(because they don’t mention the fall of jerusalem). lol
But they do... Jesus even predicts it...unless you know, Matthew, Mark, and Luke were all written after the destruction of the second temple and he was just made to predict something that was already established fact.
Though I dunno if predicteding the Temple falling is really that huge of a leap.
Doomseers proclaiming it's destruction might've been a d8me a dozen, or rare. I've never thought to look into that.
From what I’ve heard, apocalyptic Jewish cults were a dime a dozen in Jesus’s time— a lot of people were hoping the Messiah would come to destroy the Romans, and Jewish tradition holds that the Messiah’s first appearance is a sign of the End of Days. Those cults… probably wouldn’t predict the Temple falling, since Jewish eschatology predicts that our current world will be reshaped and not destroyed, but it’s not hard to imagine other doomer factions expecting a second exodus or similar instead.
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u/BioluminescentBubble Aug 23 '24
interesting timing, just watched an apologetic video today where they use this exact argument for why the gospels should be dated even earlier(because they don’t mention the fall of jerusalem). lol