Temples

Can the Church be a temple or a temple a Church?

Are other buildings like the temples such as government buildings who serve the public's welfare?

What were they doing in what we call pagan temples?

Temple of Nebo - Parents sent their children to the Temple of Nebo to receive their public education. Nebo was the Mesopotamian god of Wisdom and oracles.

Temple of Saturn - Bureau of Vital Statistics. Parents where required to get newborns registered (birth certificate) within 30 days at the Temple of Saturn so that everyone would know when the children reached the age to receive benefits.

Temple of Herod - Those baptized into Herod's government went to Herod's temple to receive welfare and social security benefits. More on the two types of baptism.

Temple of Diana in Ephesus - Christians were accused of robbing the Temple of Ephesus. It served as an underwriter for social welfare insurance and a central bank for at least the 127 countries which built the temple. Were Christians actually bank robbers? Or was something lost in translation? Read Investing in Diana.

Temples were places where religion and worship occurred but to understand what that means you must understand what Religion is. The real Church established by Christ must be the temple of Pure Religion. The temple of God is made of living stones who care about one another in the love of Christ. They function through charity while the Temples of the world force the contributions of the people under the authority of men like Cain and Nimrod.

Also read more on how Christians weren't registered in central government of the day.

The Christian conflict with the people who persecuted them in the early days of the Church was mostly over their system of social welfare which was managed through their temples like Ephesus, Temple of Saturn and the Parthenon.

Romans had superstitions but they were practical people. They did not build without a purpose an a plan. Saturn was the god of agriculture. Agriculture needs calendars and records.

Eventually when the Roman State became the Benefactors of the people through its systems of welfare parents where required to register newborns (birth certificate) within 30 days at the Temple of Saturn so that everyone would know when the children reached the age to receive benefits.

The first building for maintaining public records in Rome, including the law, was erected under the protection of the temple of Saturn, as early as 509 B.C. but was possibly burned by the Gauls in 309 B.C. Other buildings were used until 78 B.C. when they built the great Tabularium, on Capitoline Hill, below the Temple of Jupiter, which was the symbol of the sovereignty and power of Rome.

The Christians depended on a Holy temple made of living stones which was a network of people living by the perfect law of liberty and faith, hope and charity. Those that had shared with those who had true needs.

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