You know, it’s funny, if it were reported that some Protestant had made such a statement it would not be news at all. And it is that very fact which reveals the importance of the Catholic Church in religious matters: bring down the Catholic Church and you bring down all of Christianity; bring down a Protestant denomination and you just cut off a twig.
Well, I guess we need to change the Creed to “He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead - or so we believed until it became pretty obvious that He just had a bit too much to drink and was delivering an unsuccessful attempt to pull His disciples’ legs.”No new Jerusalem. The marriage supper has been cancelled. God will dwell apart from men. Mourning and crying and pain and tears and death will continue…
Bummer.
-Tim-
With all charity, but I can’t help but notice from your posts that you have a tendency to be very scrupulous about things. In this case, it’s pretty clear - as has been pointed out - that the whole thing’s an obvious joke/hoax. Anyone should be able to see that. You don’t have to lose sleep over this.
I worry about a bunch of religious stuff. Is that scrupulously? I thought scrupulously was obsessing over sins or trying to behave perfectly.Well, I guess we need to change the Creed to “He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead - or so we believed until it became pretty obvious that He just had a bit too much to drink and was delivering an unsuccessful attempt to pull His disciples’ legs.”
With all charity, but I can’t help but notice from your posts that you have a tendency to be very scrupulous about things. In this case, it’s pretty clear - as has been pointed out - that the whole thing’s an obvious joke/hoax. Anyone should be able to see that. You don’t have to lose sleep over this.
And change it from “and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead” to “my life has no meaning and I look forward to nothing.”Well, I guess we need to change the Creed to “He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead - or so we believed until it became pretty obvious that He just had a bit too much to drink and was delivering an unsuccessful attempt to pull His disciples’ legs.”
I personally don’t think that the second coming of Jesus is a globally ubiquitous transpersonal event. Instead, I think it’s a personal event when a person resurrects the Christ within themselves. If Christ is the vine and we are the branches, then being one with the Father as Christ was one with the Father is something of a matter of realization, because the vine and it’s branches are one thing, not two. It is one thing that branches out into many, yet it is still one thing.
What is a globally ubiquitous event?
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.What is a globally ubiquitous event?
Something that happens on a given or set date and time, experienced by all people in all places at one time, sky opening up, angels singing, end of the world, ect.What is a globally ubiquitous event?
Is that compatible with the Catholic faith?
Good Evening Faith1960:
The Church would say that, indeed, Jesus did give particulars. The Catechism addresses that. And as our creed says, He will come again to judge the living and the dead. There were specific predictions in Scripture about what will happen before His return.
Here’s another place in Scripture that speaks of the second coming:
As far as what Jesus taught about when you do for others you do for Him, that is not metaphorical. But I don’t know how that would negate the second coming. The rest of your points I am not going to get into because I think I have answered the question about Church teachings on the second coming.
Oh Please. Did you even read the article? “Jesus was drunk at the time he said he would return.” Don’t you get satire?
People will believe and give credence to anything/anyone. Nothing you or I can do about it.
Good Morning Incomplete: I have been travelling and hence the delay on my reply. I am aware of the what the Catechism says, and of course we do hear that every week. You had mentioned that Jesus gave particulars about the second coming, so if you would forgive my intellectual laziness, would you mind sharing the passages where Jesus says what the second coming will be like?
I don’t think it negates the second coming. It simply gives insight into our nature, or at least I think so. Now, you had mentioned a quote from Paul on what the last day would look like, and I am familiar with that account. I have always wondered where Paul got that, as I don’t recall that he said where he got it from. Do you know where he got that information, for instance did he say that Jesus shared it with him after he was knocked off his horse, or was it in some later session the two of them had, and were there in fact later instructional sessions, or did these things comes from visions? If not, did he surmise these from the writings of the Apostles who actually met Jesus when He was alive? If this is the case, where did he get it from?
You are prudent in questioning this type of misleaqding information
