(June 3, 2014 at 3:26 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Except the source material never stated there would be a second advent.First, note that revelation is progressive, and you're making an arbitrary cutoff at the end of the OT. Most of the details concerning the messiah are not found in the Torah, but most Jews don't say that those details are not to be found in the source material.
Second, as previously noted, the source material as you view it leads some to believe in two messiahs - one suffering, one triumphant - to reconcile the apparent difficulties between certain messianic passages. Christianity's solution is one messiah, two advents, and is not so different.
Quote:They stated that the messiah would bring about all these things in his lifetime.Citation please?
Quote:I'm not trying to change the conversation. I'm stating that what is known of the miracles Jesus performed are confined solely to the bible.You didn't make that complaint when you were quoting Jews who argued that the messiah wouldn't do the miraculous - only when another side was presented.