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To: xjcsa
We are not the primary audience of most of the Bible.

Which is precisely why a valid hermeneutic must focus on authorial intent, not what it means to a reader ... in any century.

Can you honestly say that the apostles, after seeing the transfiguration, the resurrection, the ascension ... and the angel saying he would return in the same way ... in plain view ... that the second coming was in 70 AD?

Josephus records the events extensively

Since "A" includes all the events ... and you claim Josephus records them extensively ... please reference just the one. Please reference the passage where Josephus documents the "coming in the clouds of the Son of Man" ... "with great power and glory" ...

197 posted on 04/20/2010 12:35:15 PM PDT by dartuser ("Palin 2012 ... nothing else will do.")
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To: dartuser
Since "A" includes all the events ... and you claim Josephus records them extensively ... please reference just the one. Please reference the passage where Josephus documents the "coming in the clouds of the Son of Man" ... "with great power and glory" ...

Much of the book "The Jewish War" is about exactly that - but not in the sense you think. There was not a giant Jesus standing on clouds - but there was a marauding army, which was the form taken by His coming. Again, this is not unique in Jewish prophecy; the Babylonian captivity was prophesied using similar language, and was also fulfilled by an enemy army.

198 posted on 04/20/2010 12:45:16 PM PDT by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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