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I do believe satan exists. The reason I believe there is more than one "man" is because of the word used in the original greek in 2 Thess which is "anthropos", which is a generic term for mankind, people, including male and female. This is the reason I believe what I do, it is not because of any particular doctrine.
Greek antropos is used often in the NT when referring to a single man. So that argument is very weak, especially in light of the singularity of the rest of the 2 Thess.2 Scripture.
Yes, it does, but not a physical temple. Everything now is spiritual. Destroy this temple and I will raise it in 3 days, Jesus calls Himself a temple. Do you not know you are the temple of God - God tells us we are His temple. Hebrews tells us the one sacrifice that would "make perfect" would cease all other sacrifices, and we know that Christ is that one sacrifice. Any other animal sacrifice would be an offense to Him. If it is as it says in Hebrew, the purpose for a 3rd physical temple is non-existent.
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That idea that the temple Paul mentioned in 2 Thess.2:4 is a spiritual temple is also a tradition of men not written. Paul was not speaking of the spiritual temple idea in 2 Thess.2, and the reason is simple. It's because our Lord Jesus is The Chief Cornerstone of the spiritual temple, His Apostles and the prophets foundation stones, and we as believers on Christ as lively stones (Eph.2; 1 Pet.2). That cannot be corrupted by any man, and certainly not by Satan. Reason is, even any believer who tried to corrupt it is cut off, no longer part of it.
What you should notice with Paul's revealing what that "man of sin" is going to do involving a temple is how it relates to how Satan sinned against God in the beginning, per Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28. (Now that I mention Isa.14 and Ezek.28 being about Satan especially, I wonder, you probably follow men's traditions designed to get your understanding away from that too.)
Brethren need to start thinking in God's Word for themselves instead of just heeding what a lot of the preachers spit out among some Churches today. Too many of them no longer preach directly from God's Word as written, but from Church Quarterlies sent to them by their denomination organization in some far away city, written by God knows who. Those preachers are going to follow their denomination's line or lose their job and retirement pension. Those particular ones are not interested in following God's Word line upon line as written, because they are actually hirelings. Our LORD warned us about them too (John 10; Ezekiel 13). So we can either choose to listen to those men and their traditions someone in a far away city drums up for them to preach to their congregations, or we can listen to The LORD in His Word. The choice is that simple.