Shalom,
I am glad you are willing to continue a dialog, and apologize again
for jumping the gun. You see, we can learn from each other; it is
not a question of "converting".
Now, your first quote is from a passage immediately preceding the
parable of the fig tree, is it not? I did research this after we
last discussed it, and my memory was indeed refreshed. Jesus was not
talking about the distant future. He was talking about the current
generation, and he was speaking in the context of the prevailing
beliefs about the messiah. Of course, what "he" said is really
what someone else said he said. In any event, he was reflecting the
common hope for a savior of the Jews of that day. Did what he was
purported to have said come to pass? It did not.
Now you may try to explain away the words "this generation".
Skipper |
