Jesper Wissing is intellectually dishonest. Jesper Wissing: Jesus didnt predict anything about the end of days. He just read scriptures (OT) If anything, he said only God knows when. My response: According to Bart Ehrman, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill When all the sources are carefully examined following strict historical criteria, it appears that Jesus is best understood as a first-century Jewish apocalyptic prophet Apocalypticism was a widespread movement in first-century Judaism. . We know about it from such sources as the Dead Sea Scrolls. It was a belief that the present age was ruled by forces of evil, which God would soon overthrow in a cataclysmic act of judgment to bring in a utopian kingdom ruled by his own Messiah. It makes sense that Jesus preached in an idiom familiar to his own day; the words and deeds that can be established as authentic all appear to be related to this kind of apocalyptic message. Jesus’s teachings were largely about the coming Kingdom of God and the need to prepare for it. The summary of his words by the earliest Gospel, Mark, is probably accurate (Mark 1:15): The Kingdom was soon to come and people needed to repent in preparation. This was a real Kingdom to be brought by God’s special messenger, whom Jesus referred to as the Son of Man (Mark 8:38). The coming judgment would involve a destruction of the present order of things and a complete reversal of fortunes for the powerful and the oppressed (Mark 13:26–27; 10:30). People (Jews) needed to prepare for its coming, by repenting of their wrongdoing, giving up their power and wealth, and living completely for others (Mark 1:15; Mark 10:13–15, 23–30, 42–44; Matt. 13:45–46). The message was urgent, because the coming destruction and the appearance of this Kingdom were imminent (Mark 9:1; 13:30; 14:62). It was this message that got Jesus into trouble with the ruling authorities and eventually led to his execution. Jespers response: https://blueletterbible.org/.../don_stewart_1349.cfm My response: ^Dodge...You said He made no mention on the end of the world, I proved that wrong. You should at least be honest enough to admit it. Jespers response: I dont. Thats not his prophecy. This is so typical of Theists, when proven wrong the MUST lie.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:36:42 +0000
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