Chayanov
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| Quote (Quack @ Dec. 23 2009,10:46) | That's easy. Just read the text. I consider it just another piece of BS but at face value, it is addressed to people alive at the time it was spoken or written. Some of them even will still be alive when the unbelievable events promised shall happen.
But with 2k years hindsight we know that not only are they all dead and gone a long time now, the events did not take place, and won't ever happen.
Since we now [B]know[B] that what was promised did not come true, the promise was a lie back then, and will forever remain a lie.
Jonas Gardell, author of "Om Gud" (About God) and "Om Jesus" (about Jesus) is honorary doctor at the Theological Faculty at Lunds University, Sweden.
He doesn't call it a lie but is otherwise of the same opinion: The events promised in 1 Thess 4:13-17 did not happen. |
Well, it turns out your "expert" was wrong. Because he wasn't there, and FL was, and Paul told FL afterwards how hard it was to continue with Jesus' ministry and about all the rhetorical tricks necessary to keep the flock moving along. So there.
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