(February 4, 2016 at 8:33 am)Huggy74 Wrote:(February 4, 2016 at 8:14 am)Irrational Wrote: Not according to a critical analysis of the text. It even says it in the Bible ...
Ok, I'll do a simple analysis for you.
Quote:Luke 9
27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
28 And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.
As you can see it clearly says that some (which is an unspecified amount) standing there would not die until they see the KINGDOM OF GOD... it says nothing about his return.
Revelation was written way after the Synoptic Gospels, so I consider the quote from Revelation a red herring for the purpose of this discussion.
As for Luke, yep, the author of Luke spiritualized the coming of the kingdom of God (as can be seen in Luke 17 especially) because it was starting to become obvious by the time of writing that Jesus was probably not going to come physically in their time.
But when you read verses like this:
Quote:Matthew 16:27
“Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
Then a reasonable explanation would be that the earliest Christians did expect Jesus to come back soon. But when they realized he wasn't, they started to rationalize why Jesus hadn't come back as promised.
