Here I'll refute it for you.
I see you cited some of my faves and some new ones so my answer will be long and require two posts.
1. And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come again, and receive you unto myself: that where I am ye may be also.
John 14:2-3
John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Jesus did say He would come again, but Jesus did not say ‘how’ He would come so there is no reason to think this one verse is Jesus saying He will come to earth again in the same physical body He had when He walked the earth 2,000 years ago, especially in light of all the other verses that contradict that (John 14:19, John 17:4, John 17:11, John 19:30).
"and receive you unto myself" is obviously about the Spirit of Jesus, not His physical body, and please note that Jesus did not ever say He would come again and ‘do’ anything on earth that would require a body, like building a Kingdom of God on earth, as most Christians believe Jesus will do.
Jesus did not say "my body will come again." The spirit of Jesus did come again, in the Person of Baha'u'llah, and that was what Jesus promised to send. Jesus was a Comforter who brought the Holy Spirit and Baha’u’llah was
another Comforter who brought the Holy Spirit.
John 14:16-17 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 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.
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
"and receive you unto myself" is obviously about the Spirit of Jesus, not about His physical body, because there would be no way that the disciples Jesus was speaking to could receive the body of Jesus on earth since they were no longer living on earth. Where Jesus was in heaven and that is where the disciples also are, so that is where Jesus received them. That is why Jesus said that He went to prepare a place for them, a place in heaven, not on earth.
John 14:3 is one of the most misunderstood verses in the New Testament so it is no wonder the Bible commentaries do not agree on what it means.
2. ....which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. Acts 1:11
That is not Jesus saying He is coming back
in the same body but let's look at it anyway.
Acts 1:9-11 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
The verse does not say that the disciples saw the body of Jesus go up.
It was the Christ Spirit that ascended, not a body, which is why the angels wondered why the disciples were staring into the sky, since there was nothing to look at. That makes perfect sense since angels can see spirits.
The disciples were staring up into the sky as the spirit of Jesus was taken up to heaven out of their sight. The two men dressed in white (angels) came along and asked why they were staring up into the sky because they wondered why the disciples were staring up into the sky. Then the angels told the disciples that
the same spirit of Jesus that was taken up to heaven will return just as it went to heaven, in like manner.
This same Jesus means the same spirit of Jesus, not the same body of Jesus because that body died on the cross and Jesus was resurrected in a spiritual body that will live forever in heaven.
Descending from heaven upon the clouds means that
the same spirit of Jesus, the Christ Spirit, will be made manifest from the heaven of the will of God and will appear in the form of the human temple. Though delivered from the womb of Mary, Jesus in reality descended from the heaven of the will of God. Baha’u’llah descended
in like manner, from the heaven of the will of God.
1 Timothy 6:14 That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
That is not proof of anything. Maybe Paul believed that Jesus would appear again, but the verse says nothing about (1) how or where Jesus would appear, and it says nothing about (2) Jesus returning to this world in the same physical body…. I go with Jesus, not Paul.
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.
4.
When the Son of man shall come in all his glory, and all the holy angels with him ....
Matthew 25:31-46
The Son of man verses that say that
the Son of man shall come in all his glory are not about Jesus. I proved that in the following thread.
Who is the Son of man who will come in the clouds of heaven?
People who really want to know the truth about the return of Christ will look at all the details; others will just go on believing what they have always believed because that is easier and what they want to believe.
Matthew 24:37-44 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Yet more verses about the return of Jesus, the Son of man (Baha’u’llah) who came in the clouds (which means veiled by men’s ignorance). Jesus told us to
watch lest we not miss Him when His Spirit returned but since Christians were waiting for the same body of Jesus to come down from heaven in the physical clouds they missed Him.
Matthew 25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
That’s right, Jesus told us to watch, but not many people were watching and those who were watching missed seeing Him because were waiting for the same body of Jesus to come down from heaven in the physical clouds. This is all recorded in history and it is called the
Great Disappointment.
(Continued on next post)