Miles wrote:
.No more so than the events in the lame promise Jesus made in Matthew 24:
Matthew 24:34
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Sorry, but the crucial qualifier here is, "This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." And, of course, the problem here is that the generation did, in fact, pass, and none of the things were fulfilled.
Checkpoint wrote:
Miles wrote:Quite so, it seems to nearly everyone.
Their problem is their assumption of who Jesus was referring to as comprising "this generation".
Checkpoint wrote:So, what do you think "this" and "generation" apply to?
I take "this" to mean
this
/T͟His/
pronoun: this; pronoun: these
1. used to identify a specific person or thing close at hand or being indicated or experienced.
source:Oxford Languages
and "generation" to mean
gen·er·a·tion
/ˌjenəˈrāSH(ə)n/
noun
noun: generation; plural noun: generations
1. all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively.
source:Oxford Languages
So, what do you think "this" and "generation" apply to?
Miles wrote:
They apply to the particular people group he often spoke to, or spoke about. Almost always in a negative manner.
But as can be seen from the definition I cited in Oxford Languages this isn't what "generation" means at all. It means:
"All of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively."
Almost always in a negative manner.
Okay.