(May 20, 2022 at 1:36 am)medusa53 Wrote: No, Jesus has not returned yet; but soon. Just look at how this world has changed in the last 10 years. .... How can you NOT believe??
How could you believe that he came the first time? Specific criteria for someone to be a messiah according to Torah is that He must gather the Jewish people from exile and return them to Israel. He must bring world peace. He must influence the entire world to acknowledge and serve one God.
And yet this criteria has not been fulfilled.
So Jesus was not the messiah because he didn't fit the criteria.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
