Re: The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ

"Fred A Stover" <fredstover7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "rogue" <rogue719@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On May 16, 7:48 am, "Fred A Stover" <fredstov...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> > On May 10, 12:32 pm, "Carl" <sai...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> >> The title of P.G. Mathew's sermon makes the topic quite clear
>>> >> concerning
>>> >> Jesus' second coming sometime in the future and how glorious it
shall
>>> >> be.
>>>
>>> > JERRY
>>> > Unfortunately, Carl, the text of the bible, and particularly Jesus
>>> > himself, was quite clear that this event was supposed to happen
during
>>> > the lifetimes of the disciples.  I point you especially to Matthew
>>> > chapter 24.
>>>
>>> 2 John 1:7 (ASV)
>>>     For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, even they that
>>> confess
>>> not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and
the
>>> antichrist.
>>>
>> JERRY
>> Hey Fred, wanna talk about the problems between the synoptic gospels
>> and the book of John?
>
> There are no problems for folks who can read.  And you see nothing
foolish
> in your question? You read all your confusion into the text. You aren't 
> bright figure out that when A measures a board of 3 m and B measures a 
> board of 6 m they aren't measuring the same board? You didn't notice
that 
> Jesus didn't defend himself before Pilate in John either? "Make it as
sure 
> as ye can" isn't a Roman command, it is sarcasm. "Pilate said unto them,

> Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can"
>
> Learn to read.

Oh, this one is an inerrantist and attempts to conflate the gospels into 
one. Fred, the gospels weren't supposed to agree. The authors of all four 
would be shocked to their jocks to see them lying side by side in one
book. 
Even Luke tells you in the beginning that he is attempting to write an 
accurate gospel as opposed to those from which he was deriving his
material.