The bible identifies the Christ as a False Prophet

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Drich and GC

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This passage regarding "there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom" has led rise to the "wandering Jew" legend. Some people believe that one of those who witnessed Jesus' trial was doomed to keep walking the earth until Jesus' second coming. So somewhere out there's supposedly a 2000-year-old Jew who can't die until the second coming. I almost expected Drich to bring this up "the burden of proof is on you to show that every man standing there listened to Jesus actually died and one of them isn't still alive somewhere," but he took it in another direction. Apparently the second coming really did happen 2000 years ago and all these Christians waiting for Jesus to come back are all heretics.

Please explain how I'm wrong.

GC

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You get that from this:

“Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” Matthew 16:28

I don't know GC - that seems more than a stretch to me. Surely its a reference to the second coming which did not happen in any of their lifetimes - unless one or more of them is secretly still alive today....

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Matthew 16:24-28 are the verses that go together, Jesus is describing salvation which brings people into the Kingdom. Without the people there would be no Kingdom, an empty Kingdom is no Kingdom at all. The people are the church and the Kingdom is the church ie. the people.

GC

These are the verses you mentioned:

24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save their life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. 26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.

28 “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”

Now I know you guys are much better at this than me but it would appear to me that Jesus is saying that he will return (with his angels) and do the rewarding - as in down here on earth, personally,

I'd say the context supports my interpretation more than this referring to the establishment of the Church.

Late Edit:

I just want to try to illustrate what I am saying a bit better here:

To me this says Jesus was expecting to return (end of the world type stuff) within the lifetime of the disciples and that didn't happen.

Imagine the Church was never set up. Would you read it as "Bugger me - there was supposed to be a Church!"

It seems to me that you are equating what was predicted with what actually happened and then making the tenuous link merely to keep consistency even though it really doesn't seem to fit properly.