(03-23-2024, 07:51 PM)Ninurta Wrote: Just for clarification to make sure I understand correctly, are you saying that Peter proposed 3 separate tabernacles so that the principals could commune with God individually rather than collectively - i.e. with separate, individual Tabernacles rather than a single Tabernacle?Mark's gospel adds "For he did not know what to say", and Luke's version is "not knowing what he said". In other words, the sight
If that is the case, then does this passage have implications for the individual's relationship with God in the post-Temple era, in the New Covenant?
It's my belief that "wars of liberation", in a spiritual sense, are fought within rather than externally. The individual's "liberation" is to be found in their relationship with God rather than in their relationship with a government. I believe that a number of people in that day - not necessarily Peter, but quite a few Jews - were looking after a secular solution to a spiritual problem, just as they are today. They sought - and still seek in some cases - to mix religion with politics, which to my way of thinking would have predictable, and potentially disastrous, results.
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created such awe and confusion in his mind that he just blurted out the first thing that came into his head. Obviously Jesus did not accept the offer or make any direct reply to it. It wasn't something to be taken seriously as a proposal.