Jesus said that He would come back and get His disciples, just as 1Thess 4:13-18 shows us. What is the problem except that you don't want to believe what it says.
But that is
not what it says, it is only what you believe it says, what you interpret it to mean.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
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13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
Baha'u'llah was the Lord of hosts who came down from heaven with a loud command.
“The fear of God is the shield that defendeth His Cause, the buckler that enableth His people to attain to victory. It is a standard that no man can abase, a force that no power can rival. By its aid, and by the leave of Him Who is the Lord of Hosts, they that have drawn nigh unto God have been able to subdue and conquer the citadels of the hearts of men.”
Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 272
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The dead in Christ will rise verse means that those who are spiritually dead because they do not believe in Jesus will be the first to rise to spiritual life, because Baha'u'llah will remind them of all that Jesus had said.
In
John 14:26, Jesus said, “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things and will bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
Jesus will come back and bring the souls of the dead Christians back and resurrect them into their resurrection bodies.
You have a different teaching that you want to impose on the Bible and deny the plain reading of the Bible.
Unless Jesus lied, or unless the Bible is in error, then Jesus is not coming back to this world.
The plain meaning of the Bible is that Jesus is never coming back to this world. You have yet to address these verses since you cannot face reality.
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 16:10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more.
John 17:4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
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.
If the Bible is in error then there is no reason to believe
any of the other verses that you cite. That's how logic works.
Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved.
You don't like the real resurrection because it is not a part of Baha'i teaching, so you have to deny what the Bible teaches about it.
The bodily resurrection is superfluous since it serves no purpose at all. Jesus died on the cross so we could be saved. Rising from the dead serves no purpose at all, and it is not necessary for Christianity to be true, which is why not all Christians believe that Jesus rose from the dead.
The bodily resurrection is unrelated to whether Jesus is coming back. Jesus said He was
no more in this world.
Baha'u'llah was pierced by chains?,,,,,,,,,,,, hmmm.
Baha'u'llah freed us from our sins by his blood?
Every eye saw Baha'u'llah?
Baha'u'llah came in the clouds?
The world mourned because of Baha'u'llah's coming?
Rev 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Baha'u'llah was pierced by heavy chains, and He bore the scars till the end of His life..
Jesus freed us from our sins by his blood.
Every eye will never see see Jesus return since Jesus said He was no more in this world.
Every eye will see Baha'u'llah does not mean that every physical eye will see Baha'u'llah. It means that one day everyone will know who He was.
“Warn and acquaint the people, O Servant, with the things We have sent down unto Thee, and let the fear of no one dismay Thee, and be Thou not of them that waver. The day is approaching when God will have exalted His Cause and magnified His testimony in the eyes of all who are in the heavens and all who are on the earth.”
Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 248
Coming in the clouds does not mean coming in the clouds in the sky. It is figurative, not literal.
Baha'ullah came in the clouds because the judgment of people was clouded when He appeared.
Son of man
coming with the clouds means that the return of Christ will appear in the form of another human being. The term “clouds” as used in the Bible means
those things that are contrary to the ways and desires of men. Just like the physical clouds prevent the eyes of men from beholding the sun, these things hindered men from recognizing the return of Christ.
In other words, the judgment of most people was clouded when Christ returned and it is still clouded for most people.
One thing that clouds the judgment of Christians is their desire for the same Jesus to return to earth.
Everyone on earth will wail (not mourn) because of Baha'u'llah.
wail: a
prolonged high-pitched cry of pain, grief, or anger.
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Interestingly you know that John 14:19 and John 16:10 have other simple explanations which do not make other passages into contradictions.
What are those simple explanations?
But the integrity of the Bible is not worth preserving for a follower of Baha'i even though I can see that you do try in your own way to preserve it,,,,,,,,,,,,, even though in reality that is not possible for a follower of Baha'i.
But the integrity of the Bible is not worth preserving for a Christian even though I can see that you do try in your own way to preserve it,
even though in reality that is not possible to believe the same Jesus is going to return to earth, since Jesus said He was no more in this world and Jesus never promised to return to earth, not even once in the entire New Testament.
So John wanted Jesus to come even though John know that Jesus would never come back to earth.
Rev 22:20 He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
John did not know that Jesus would never return to earth.. Otherwise John would not have beckoned Jesus to return.
We cannot assume that John was aware of everything Jesus said in the New Testament.
John believed with certainty that Jesus was going to return to earth. So what? A belief does not make anything true.
