God's "perfect" Plan

[Purple Rabbit]

Purple Rabbit you are correct in saying that Paul believed Jesus return would be in his life time. That was his belief early in his ministry but later in his ministry he understood that was not the truth and he understood that long before his death.

Please supply the evidence for that.

Now I have a challenge for you find in the Bible where anyone spoke of a rapture of the church.
Read the book of Matthew there you will find what Jesus said about the end of time and what you want find there is anything about a rapture.

Also Paul never wrote about a rapture so this should help narrow down your search IF you decide to take my challenge.

It is not my problem that inconsistencies in the bible have led to all kind of interpretations by christians. Many traditional doctrines such as the suffering messiah, the divinity of christ, and the notion of heaven and hell are not based on the teachings of the historical Jesus. In Matthew, Mark and Luke, there's no trace of Jesus being divine, in John there is. Fact is that a vast crowd of christians belief from scripture that rapture will happen. Paul clearly believed that Jesus would return during his lifetime. To say that he changed his mind does not make an argument about when this return should happen, it discredits Paul's authority on the return that he as no other endorsed to begin with.