Can Preterists Even BEGIN To Make Their Case?

And the Scriptures state that one of the evidences of last times is folks casting doubt about the literal physical return of Christ.

Such is being heard more and more.

Doesn’t mean the Lord will return right away, just another “sign” the Scriptures indicate will happen.

 

T, will they not reject because it is impossible for them to accept?

 

There is an actual long ago study on this.

Without bothering with citing but just to give a brief statement from my memory, the study concluded that starting about third grade there is a growing resistance that occurs in the brain to reorder (to gather new information requiring a reordering of facts).

We who have been teachers try to come up with ways to “get through to a person” and are often successful. But then there are the “Flintstone” family group that no amount of effort keeps them from the occupation of stone throwing at anything that might oblige them to actually mature in wisdom and knowledge.

 

The sign of Jonah (three days and three nights) was symbolic of Christ's three days and three nights in the tomb. Fulfilled symbolically.

 

What....???

So, the Jewish rulers were right?

The disciples stole the body and propagated the myth of the resurrection?

 

Not a sign, a promise.

 

I can't see what that has to do with anything. Your post doesn't make sense to me.

 

I did not mention Wikipedia - and we are quite capable of reading & understanding the sources we quote - to the extent we quote them. However the main thrust of our posts is Scripture aided by resources such as the www.blueletterbible.org NOT to impose an external, online source on Scripture, but to ensure that our posts are accurate.

Try to read what we write, rather than inflict your Humpty Dumpty language on us.

 

No , David - fulfilled literally - precisely as Jesus stated:

39 But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.​

 

You posted that the resurrection was “symbolic” that means it never really happened.

So were the Jewish rulers correct in the rumor they spread that the disciples stole the body of Jesus?

The disciples decided to proclaim the resurrection as truth, but they were really pretending?

 

So the resurrection isn’t symbolic but the return is?

 

That really makes no sense. He gave that current generation the sign of Johan, Johan representing the Death and Resurrection, and then destruction on that Generation. I didn't know my explanation was that hard to grasp.

At what level should I explain this at?

Mark 8:12 He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, “Why does this people seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this people.”

Mark left out, "expect a sign of Jonah"
That current generation was seeking a sign, a sign they asked for, and Jesus said no sign is given but the sign of Jonah, explained above.

So which of of them died before the transfiguration?

Please show me what I ignored.

 

• Luke 11:30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

 

Again you perceive “generation” as a period of time in which a certain age group is born and dies.

Yet, the word “generation” can also just as authoritatively be race, or family including decendents, dependents, and the deposited (those already deposited in the earth).

 

Really, 2000 years the later the Jews are still being punished?

Or more fittingly, it was that current generation, you know the one that house was left desolate, the generation Jesus predicted the judgment on, the generation that actually rejected Jesus and put him to death?

Please show me how current generation does not work?

The only reason you need "race" to work is because you do not believe Matthew 24 to be something other than future.

 

Yep, because as Paul said, that is the overall Jewish condition until God is ready to move to the next step in His prophetic scheme.

Again, Time is no hindrance or benefit to God.

Already did, but you reject any other definition but the one you decide fits the scheme.

Doing so you manipulate Scriptures to the scheme rather than the scheme to s ruptures.