[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]Matthew 16:28: "...there shall be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."
[/FONT][FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica] Matthew 24:34, "...this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled."
[/FONT][FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, [/FONT][FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."
[/FONT][FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]1 Thessalonians 5:2-11, [/FONT][FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]"For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober."
When the above passages are interpreted literally, it seems both Jesus and Paul thought Jesus would return within approximately 30 years after Jesus' death. If Jesus and Paul couldn't get it right then what chance us mere mortals?
Of course, literal interpretations of those verses are universally rejected by all Christians, and rightly so.
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