(December 8, 2017 at 12:55 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: In regards to the OP, cant you see how a reasonable person reading the bible might think that it explicitly says that Jesus was going to return (at most) within 100 years? How long does a generation last? How do you reconcile what is said in the bible with a 2,000 year--and counting-- period? Jesus told the people who surrounded him that he was coming back soon.
More than any other type of literature, the prophetic literature has never lent itself to a plain reading. IMHO a reasonable person would recognize that temporal references are particularly difficult - from the seventy weeks of Daniel to famines in Pharoah's dream that Joseph interpreted, and anything in Revelation. I generally avoid putting too much effort into the interpretation of prophecies, even those of Jesus, precisely because they are so cryptic and laden with allusions.
