/lit/ - Literature

This is what I came up with. I got a D, with the note "narrowminded and deliberately provocative". You be the judge.


"27For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done. 28Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." (Matt. 16:27–28)

"33So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. 34Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place." (Matt. 24:33–34)

In these verses, Christ explicitly predicts his second coming will occur within the lifetimes of his apostles. This is consistent with the scholarly consensus that Revelations is metaphor for the fall of Rome, with Nero as the antichrist (The scriptural “666” being an encoded version of “Neron”.). Realizing this and unwilling to conclude that Jesus was wrong, various sects have rationalized it in different ways.

Preterists claim Jesus did return in the timeframe he predicted, but "invisibly", ushering in an unseen "spiritual revolution" sometime during the first century AD.

Catholicism includes an obscure doctrine popularly termed "the wandering Jew" which alleges that Christ made one of his contemporaries immortal, so that what he said about some alive at the time surviving to witness his second coming could remain technically correct.

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