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"Foundation of the World" Dispensationalist χρ
This is my impression of Catholicism.
Eschatologically Catholicism might be Dispensationalism, but not Acts 2, 9 or 28, but more like "Acts 70", as in AD 70, General Titus and the destruction of, not only 'just' the Temple, but the whole liturgy of Levitical Judaism, which is the obvious descendant of the tradition instituted by Moses who wrote the Torah (Old Covenant).
From the time of Christ to AD 70 was an 'overlap' of 'valid' liturgies. 'Practicing', 'religious' and 'devout' Jewish people who believed in Jesus, could licitly celebrate both the Temple liturgy and the Christian liturgy (sacraments), until AD 70, when one of them ended. The other one did not end, and continues to this day.
So in a sense, to Catholicism the Church really began once the Temple was destroyed, in the specific sense that it is when the Church began to exist as the only celebrants of a valid liturgy to God the Father, that was available. Peter and Paul were both dead by then, who knows how many Apostles (besides John who we think lived to be very old) were alive to see the destruction of the Temple?
At Mass we always read from John's Gospel every year, even though we alternate the other Gospel readings every three years. John's Gospel was written after the Temple was destroyed, so this is John's take on all the events that had unfolded up to that point in time. It's the only Apostolic guidance available to read, coming from after the destruction of the Temple.
Catholicism rightly divides the Gospel of John as the only book of the Bible that is truly written to the Body of Christ today. Paul only wrote to the Church during a special period in history, when the Temple stood and was being attended to in Jerusalem, and the infant (fetal? embyonic?) Church was celebrating her new liturgy (the New Covenant liturgy) as well, at the same time.
So, there was some confusion during this period of overlapping liturgies (see the Church council in Acts). Catholic Dispensationalism has the Church starting in AD 70, when the earth changed from a place where there were two valid liturgies worshiping the Father, to just one.
As far as I'm concerned.
Eschatologically Catholicism might be Dispensationalism, but not Acts 2, 9 or 28, but more like "Acts 70", as in AD 70, General Titus and the destruction of, not only 'just' the Temple, but the whole liturgy of Levitical Judaism, which is the obvious descendant of the tradition instituted by Moses who wrote the Torah (Old Covenant).
From the time of Christ to AD 70 was an 'overlap' of 'valid' liturgies. 'Practicing', 'religious' and 'devout' Jewish people who believed in Jesus, could licitly celebrate both the Temple liturgy and the Christian liturgy (sacraments), until AD 70, when one of them ended. The other one did not end, and continues to this day.
So in a sense, to Catholicism the Church really began once the Temple was destroyed, in the specific sense that it is when the Church began to exist as the only celebrants of a valid liturgy to God the Father, that was available. Peter and Paul were both dead by then, who knows how many Apostles (besides John who we think lived to be very old) were alive to see the destruction of the Temple?
At Mass we always read from John's Gospel every year, even though we alternate the other Gospel readings every three years. John's Gospel was written after the Temple was destroyed, so this is John's take on all the events that had unfolded up to that point in time. It's the only Apostolic guidance available to read, coming from after the destruction of the Temple.
Catholicism rightly divides the Gospel of John as the only book of the Bible that is truly written to the Body of Christ today. Paul only wrote to the Church during a special period in history, when the Temple stood and was being attended to in Jerusalem, and the infant (fetal? embyonic?) Church was celebrating her new liturgy (the New Covenant liturgy) as well, at the same time.
So, there was some confusion during this period of overlapping liturgies (see the Church council in Acts). Catholic Dispensationalism has the Church starting in AD 70, when the earth changed from a place where there were two valid liturgies worshiping the Father, to just one.
As far as I'm concerned.