(June 16, 2014 at 11:54 pm)orangebox21 Wrote:(June 16, 2014 at 11:02 pm)Jenny A Wrote: The second coming didn't happen in Jesus' generation. Therefore, it's all bunk................. if the generation spoken of in Matthew 24:34/Mark 13:30/Luke 21:32 does not refer to Jesus' generation, and is a separate event from Matthew 16:28/Luke 9:27, then your conclusion is bunk.
So, why do you think that the generation of whom Jesus was speaking to is the one He was speaking of? And why does the 'some here who will not taste death' refer to the 'generation who will not pass until all these things are fulfilled'?
Because when people say "this generation" they mean their own generation or at the very most the people living at the time "this generation" is said. There's no reason to believe Jesus meant anything different. No one from 30 CE is now living. They all died about 2000 years ago.
What other "this generation" might he have meant? And do you think the people he was speaking to thought he meant anything other than themselves?
Failed prophesy. Done deal.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
