John Falkenberg
Banned
What if after Christ arose from the dead He set up the Millenial Kingdom rather than waiting for a future date?
Discussing the intervention of supernatural entities into human history belongs in ASB.What if after Christ arose from the dead He set up the Millenial Kingdom rather than waiting for a future date?
Discussing the intervention of supernatural entities into human history belongs in ASB.
But from a Christian perspective, it's an interesting question as far as it goes. Jesus explicitly promised he would return to set up the Millennial Kingdom within the lifetime of the people listening to him (see Luke 25:33, Matthew 24:34 and Mark 13:30). Since it has been nearly 2,000 years since he made that promise and he still hasn't returned, either Jesus lied or the Gospels are wrong.
Discussing the intervention of supernatural entities into human history belongs in ASB.
But from a Christian perspective, it's an interesting question as far as it goes. Jesus explicitly promised he would return to set up the Millennial Kingdom within the lifetime of the people listening to him (see Luke 25:33, Matthew 24:34 and Mark 13:30). Since it has been nearly 2,000 years since he made that promise and he still hasn't returned, either Jesus lied or the Gospels are wrong.
...or Methuesaleh is still kickin' it down in Miami waiting on JC......or one of those people was King Arthur.
Lest some Christians be tempted to use that line of defense, unlikely though it is, let me say that if this was the case (Jesus told his audience that some of them would see the Second Coming during their lifetimes because he knew that a quasi-immortal was listening to him), it would have been grossly dishonest of him. If no fewer than three of the Gospels mention Jesus saying that his return is less than a human lifetime away, one can only conclude that unless he was deliberately misleading, he meant a normal human lifetime....or Methuesaleh is still kickin' it down in Miami waiting on JC...