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Why, then, did the disciples (Apostles) continue to believe that Jesus would return in their lifetime?

Which is why you will bend all the rules of grammar and commonsense to defend your position. You read a Greek Manuscript. Do you think that provided you with insight into the mind of God? All that the Koine Greek tells you is what Matthew wanted to convey. I studied Koine Greek and I have no...

In his kingdom. Please show us where they saw the angels and where every man received his reward.

Matthew 16:27-28

That is not always true. If I do not make an attempt to discover the lesson I could miss it altogether. At the moment the Christian community has taken the position that there is nothing wrong with them so they won't learn a thing.

You have not taken the time to read what Jesus actually said. He did not say they would see the glory of His kingdom. He said more than that. How can our teachings be so important that we are willing to make Jesus up to be some deluded fellow in order to defend them?

We should not be too quick to think that we have properly interpreted and applied this text. It is true that Jesus saved world and that anyone who rejects Him has rejected salvation. But only He knows who has rejected Him.

Why is it so important that Satan impersonate Jesus? Why do we have to stretch the text to make it fit? Do we think that this impersonation is necessary for Jesus to be real? I don't get it.

Then why did they not say it was a fulfillment of the earlier statement? They were writing years after Jesus had returned to heaven.

How do those three menus get on the same plate?

"Gives us" is a strong statement. How would you handle Christ's advice to the rich young ruler to sell all he had and give to the poor? Why would that not in similar fashion become a command to us?

There are several things wrong with your analysis, and it was not too long. 1. Matt. 16 was a conversation between Christ and His disciples. It was not a theological journal article. 2. There can be no question as to what the disciples thought Christ meant at the time when He spoke to them...

I guess somebody gave Jonah a free pass. I am not going dignify your continued attempts to put a negative spin on what I have said plainly. I leave it to the readers to decide. There are more than 6 billion people in the world. You are only one.

You are trying very hard to find a contradiction that only exists in your mind. If you think that the fall of man was part of the divine plan I won't even argue that with you. I said He was the ultimate chess grandmaster, yet you imply that I called him a human chess grandmaster. I will no...

And put big crosses on most of them and put all their addresses on the internet.

The flaw is in your analysis. God does not make educated guesses. God is the ultimate chess grandmaster. He knows every possible move so he is never taken by surprise. But, He gave us minds because He did not want us to lead "directed" lives like robots. When He makes a promise that is...

This is no different from Tim LaHaye's "Left Behind" stories. We have already accepted Satan's impersonation. He has sold us a false view of the salvation Jesus accomplished and we have chosen to buy his version.

The biggest ongoing deception is the church's insistence that the devil could not have possibly deceived them. They have full confidence in their intelligence.

Maybe biblically, but not in God's mind. If it were a foregone conclusion we would not be still waiting for it. God does not need thousands of years to make up His mind about a foregone conclusion. Even as kids we know that if some says he is going to punch you lights out if he hesitates he is...