RE: How long will Christians wait for Jesus?
February 17, 2017 at 5:02 pm
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2017 at 5:06 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 17, 2017 at 4:50 pm)Lek Wrote: So you're saying that the writer of Matthew, who was writing this gospel after the passing of the apostles generation, is saying that the world should have already ended?The writer of matthew was relating a story.
Quote:I really think that he would have to be smarter than that and make up something different.That's probably where the mistake lies, lol. Whomever wrote revelation thought the world either already had or currently -was- ending. These were (supposedly) contemporary narratives. Modern christians interpret both as happening some day™ in the future, preferably in their own lifetimes.
Quote:In Matthew 24 Jesus describes events that the people of that time will witness and his coming will occur before the end of that generation.-and even though that never panned out, here people are, centuries later, hanging on the words as though they were credible. / shrugs
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