Through reading the Bible alone it would be hard to come up with the idea that Jesus is not coming back when He says He is coming back and that the Son of Man will come and that He is the Son of Man. That someone else may be the Son of Man comes from other sources, not the Bible.
Jesus does not say He is coming back anywhere in the New Testament.
Christians believe that everything in the Bible is about Jesus, but it’s not.
Son of man is not a title that belongs
exclusively to Jesus as is the title Son of God.
There is only one Son of God but there can be more than one Son of man, since the title is symbolic of the perfect humanity that Jesus represented.
"
Son of man", "
son of Adam", or "
like a man", are phrases used in the
Hebrew Bible, various
apocalyptic works of the
intertestamental period, and in the
Greek New Testament. In the indefinite form ("son of Adam", "son of man", "like a man") used in the Hebrew Bible it is a form of address, or it contrasts
human beings against
God and the
angels, or contrasts foreign nations (like Persia and Babylon), which are often represented as animals in apocalyptic writings (bear, goat, or ram), with Israel which is represented as human (a "son of man"), or it signifies an
eschatological human figure.
In its indefinite form it is used in the
Greek Old Testament,
Biblical apocrypha and
Pseudepigrapha. The Greek New Testament uses the earlier indefinite form while introducing a novel definite form, "the son of man."
Son of man - Wikipedia
You quote these verses:
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 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.
These verses however have to be seen in the light of other verses and not taken out of context.
In context,
John 14:19 makes it even more clear that it is not Jesus who is coming back to Earth. Jesus was a comforter, and Baha’u’llah was
another Comforter and
the Spirit of truth that the word did not know yet because they had not seen Him yet.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
In context, it is even clearer what
John 17:11means because Jesus first says He has finished the work that God gave Him to do and then He says He is no longer in the world:
4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
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.
That Jesus meant that He was going from the earth BUT that He would return is seen in other places, including this verse:
Matthew 23:39 reads: ‘For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord”‘ (
ESV).
There are many verses wherein Christians assume that Jesus is referring to Himself, when actually He is referring to Baha’u’llah.
That is an interesting verse, as it was Baha’u’llah who came in the name of the Lord. Jesus came in the station of the Son and Baha’u’llah came in the station of the Father. That is why we have the following verses wherein Jesus clearly differentiates Himself from the Son of man:
Mark 8:38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Luke 9:26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.
I used to think the Bible was not accurate but more and more I am finding that is not the case at all. How it came to be so accurate difficult to understand given how it was written and compiled so I can only conclude that it must have been inspired by God.
