Do you think that
only Jesus was the Son of Man? Read the Bible and see just how many references there are to the Son of man.
No, it is not the return of the same man Jesus because the same man Jesus died on the cross and He knew He was not coming back to Earth after that. That is precisely why Jesus said:
John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
John 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
John 17:4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Then decades later the gospel writers
wrote stories about Jesus rising from the dead and tried to bring him back to life. Most Christians believed that until recent times.
What many liberal theologians believe about Jesus' death
The only way the same body of Jesus could return to Earth is if He rose from the dead and ascended to Heaven and is still alive in Heaven, but physical bodies do not reside in Heaven, which is a purely spiritual world. That is one way we know that the 'physical body' of Jesus is not in Heaven and thus can never return from Heaven.
Christianity fabricated doctrines that say that Jesus ascended to Heaven in the same body He had on Earth so that they could keep waiting for the same Jesus to return to Earth, forever. To anyone who knows anything about psychology, this is all about an emotional attachment to the same man Jesus, because if Christians really wanted to know the truth it is all in the Bible. But Christians cannot face the fact that Jesus will never return to Earth, they want to keep waiting, and that is why never even try to refute my posts that prove -- using their Bible -- that the same Jesus is never coming back to Earth.
Christians cannot make this work, because Jesus never said that He was going to return to Earth,
not even once in the entire New Testament, and that is precisely what all the prophecies for the return of Christ have been fulfilled and still Jesus has not returned.
John 14:2-3 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Jesus did not say ‘how’ He would come so there is no reason to think this one verse is Jesus saying He will
come to Earth again in the same physical body He had when He walked the earth 2,000 years ago, especially in light of all the other verses that contradict that (John 14:19, John 17:4, John 17:11, John 19:30).
"and receive you unto myself" is obviously about the Spirit of Jesus, not His physical body, and please note that Jesus never said He would come again and ‘do’ anything on earth that would require a body, like building a Kingdom of God on Earth, as most Christians believe Jesus will do. These are all man-made Christian doctrines that resulted from misinterpreting one verse after another, believing that all the verses about the return of Christ and the Kingdom of God on Earth referred to Jesus. Clearly, the Son of Man who would come in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory was not Jesus, as can easily be seen by what the verses say when
Jesus differentiates Himself from the Son of Man who would come in the glory of His Father.
Who is the Son of man who will come in the clouds of heaven?
Look carefully at Mark 8:38. Look at how the verse is separated by a semicolon and Jesus says “of him also” indicating that the Son of man is
someone other than Himself who would come
in the glory of his Father with the holy angels
Mark 8:38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Again, in Matthew 16:27, Jesus said that the Son of man shall come
in the glory of his Father. Jesus did not say “I will come in the glory of my Father.”
Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Look carefully at Luke 9:26. Look at how
Jesus separated Himself from the Son of man (ashamed of me, of him shall), and then Jesus said that the Son of man shall come in
his own glory and in His Father’s glory. Jesus did not say that the Son of man will come
in my glory.
Luke 9:26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.
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Jesus did not say "my body will come again." The spirit of Jesus did come again, in the Person of Baha'u'llah, and that was what Jesus promised to send. Jesus was a Comforter who brought the Holy Spirit and Baha’u’llah was
another Comforter who brought the Holy Spirit.
John 14:16-17 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
"and receive you unto myself" is obviously about the Spirit of Jesus, not about His physical body, because there would be no way that the disciples Jesus was speaking to could receive the body of Jesus on Earth since they were no longer living on earth. Where Jesus was in Heaven and that is where the disciples also are, so that is where Jesus received them. That is why Jesus said that He went to prepare a place for them, a place in Heaven, not on Earth.
John 14:3 is one of the most misunderstood verses in the New Testament so it is no wonder the Bible commentaries do not agree on what it means.