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You throw accusations about, SZ, but seem completely unable to show any evidence whatsoever. Why should we believe you? You say "It's still there". I say "Where"?
You made a false assumption that “most Christians……….” (fill in the blank with any words of your choice). This is a false assumption because nobody (even you, SZ) knows the thoughts of most Christians.
LOL! You are fooling no one, SZ. You have no idea what the verse means, do you? And if you really believe that you can prove that ‘MOST Christians’ do not understand the meaning of a verse… well, I suggest you do some work on the concept of proof.
Calm down SZ. No one is demanding anything of you, and certainly not that you must follow rules. Stop being silly.
How so? You do not appear to understand the problem with apologists.
Of course you do. You have to since it is one of the worst failed prophecies in the Bible.
Oh my! There goes another irony meter!
You have as of yet to justify any of your claims of assumption. When one repeatedly state false claims about others, whether one believes those claims or not,that person has broken the Ninth.
Yes, they do that quite often
We know that the events of Genesis are mythical and yet many interpret the Bible literally. Let's get back to the OP and the mistaken claim that the prophecies referred to the transfiguration. To make that claim one has to ignore the latter half of this prophecy:Yes, they do that quite often
"27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
People have not been rewarded according to their works. Read the OP and the multiple verses involved. One can see that that was a prediction of the Second Coming and that has not happened yet, and it is doubtful that it will even happen. To come up with the explanation of the apologists one must pretend large parts of those prophecies do not exist.
Jesus never promised to return to earth and in fact Jesus said that His work was finished here and He was "no more" in the world.
The Bible can be and is interpreted in all sorts of ways by people ignoring the parts of it that they do not like or is uncomfortable to them. The Jesus of the Bible does predict an early return when read in context. Did you read the OP? I would suggest going over that. The verses being quoted are interpreted by apologists as the transubstantiation. The problem with that is one must ignore significant parts of the prophecy. Many claim that the legend of the Wandering Jew arose from this prophecy:
Yes, I have read the OP and the Jesus of the Bible does predict that the Son of Man would come during the lifetime of the disciples when read in context. However, Jesus never identified himself as the Son of Man who would come in the clouds, so that was simply an assumption made on the part of Christians.
That is not about Jesus, that is about Baha'u'llah.
It is true that the Messiah would have two comings, since God’s revelation to mankind was progressive.
In some instances Jesus was referring to himself as the Son of Man and we know that because of the context of those verses where the title is connected with the earthly life of Jesus we know about from cross verification (reading other verses). For example, we know from other verses that Jesus did the following when he came to earth:
Or that the Bible was written by several authors, none of whom were eyewitnesses and were relying on oral tradition. Oral tradition will cause quite a few different versions of the same story to arise. The endless contradictions in the Bible seem to confirm this.