(September 14, 2014 at 11:06 am)professor Wrote: Good questions ( I like it).Don't see any point in arguing it with you because it will just degenerate into yes he did, no he didn't. But what Jesus meant by seeing the kingdom of god is far from obviously the transfiguration on the mount with Moses and Elijah. The Christians in the middle ages certainly didn't think so. Hence the myth of the wandering Jew, still alive and waiting for the second coming.
Jenny,
Jesus told his disciples- some standing there would see the kingdom of God.
That was a prophecy of His transfiguring on the Mount with Moses and Elijah- Peter and John were the two who saw it.
Nowhere is it recorded that Jesus thought or said the end of the age would happen in his lifetime.
The apostle writing in the book of Acts, quoted Malachi about the pouring out of the Holy Spirit in the last days.
We have been in the last days for 2000 years- a "Day" being equivalent to a thousand years. A day with the Lord is as a thousand years.
The day being equivalent to a thousand years is absurd.
What apologists will say with a straight face never ceases to amaze me.
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.