tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post6836491678708057728..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Before the Son of Man comesRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-31908311940225194342017-06-27T12:29:59.534-04:002017-06-27T12:29:59.534-04:00It seems to me this could refer to a simple coming...It seems to me this could refer to a simple coming, or to Matthew 17. The disciples see the son of man in power. Anyway, the skeptics interpretation makes little sense unless you split the Son of Man and Jesus into two different personages, which I think the majority of exegetes would reject. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-44430195110487479992017-06-27T00:18:37.639-04:002017-06-27T00:18:37.639-04:00Other possible solutions are that Christ is referr...Other possible solutions are that Christ is referring tot he Transfiguration, or His vindication from God the Father at His resurrection, or the pouring out of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, or the destruction of Jerusalem (cf. partial or full preterism). <br /><br />The natural interpretation of the phrase "all the towns of Israel" would be that Christ is referring only to the towns WITHIN the borders of Israel. However, I don't see why Christ could not have also included Jews in the Diaspora. Ethnic groups often group together in pockets (e.g. self-imposed/created "ghettos") in foreign lands for mutual support and to maintain their unique identity. That could help explain how a 40 years interval between the time Christ spoke those words and the destruction of Jerusalem could not be enough time. In fact, I wonder if it's the case that every Jewish community in the world today has had the Gospel faithfully proclaimed to them yet. Because of Christian atrocities in the past (e.g. the Inquisition, some of the Crusades etc.) many Christians are hesitant to share the Gospel with Jews. And so many Jews still haven't had the Gospel explained to them. Their understanding is very cursory. I'm reminded of how Dr. Michael Brown often jokes that Jews sometimes think Jesus is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Christ, and that's how Jesus got His last name/surname.ANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-28114191462583793942017-06-26T20:24:58.406-04:002017-06-26T20:24:58.406-04:00I have responded to to this text here:
http://www...I have responded to to this text here:<br /><br />http://www.alankurschner.com/2017/03/19/why-jesus-prophecy-in-matthew-1023-refers-to-his-second-coming-not-to-his-first-coming-ep-82/<br /><br />Alan E. Kurschnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08963783504805163298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-79058070114924806262017-06-26T19:53:00.300-04:002017-06-26T19:53:00.300-04:00I think that the "coming" means coming i...I think that the "coming" means coming in his kingdom, which he did when he returned to the father in Acts 1. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-1419064756022610882017-06-26T19:14:44.297-04:002017-06-26T19:14:44.297-04:00This skeptic's interpretation of Matthew 10:23...This skeptic's interpretation of Matthew 10:23 is <a href="http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/10/misdating-second-coming.html" rel="nofollow">highly inconsistent with the rest of Matthew, the remainder of the New Testament, and the other earliest Christian and non-Christian sources</a>. The earliest opponents of Christianity show no knowledge of a false prediction that Jesus would return within a generation. They criticize the <i>slowness</i> of the fulfillment of the prediction of the second coming, not a <i>failure</i> of fulfillment. Modern critics who claim that there was a failed prediction aren't just suggesting that the early Christians were wrong. They're also suggesting that the early opponents of Christianity were wrong.Jason Engwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031011335190895123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-75324505917706084142017-06-26T15:30:18.016-04:002017-06-26T15:30:18.016-04:00That's indeed one of the proposed interpretati...That's indeed one of the proposed interpretations. stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547070544928321788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-78276146699814941342017-06-26T15:18:48.996-04:002017-06-26T15:18:48.996-04:00Couldn't this just be referring to Christ rejo...Couldn't this just be referring to Christ rejoining the disciples after this period of time? It seems we want to jump to a theologically-loaded "Coming" rather than just understanding it as "coming" with a lower-case c.David Gadboishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18375984671877016361noreply@blogger.com