Quote Originally Posted by ermitonto
How can I possibly put my trust in Jesus Christ with this glaring lie of his in Matthew 16:28?

He clearly prophesied that the Second Coming would occur within the lifetimes of the people he was speaking to way back in the first century. The fact that the Second Coming didn't happen within Jesus' allotted time frame is all the evidence we need to show that the prophecy of the Second Coming was false.
Actually, I have read in some books that it was not Jesus himself who said that the Second Coming would take place in the first or second centruy AD, but rather the new Christians. Remeber, Jesus didn't write the Gospels, and no one was following him taking notes in order to write books. The Gospels were written between 50 and 100 years after Jesus died, so there's obviously going to be mistakes and intentional changes by the authors. The evangelists simply wrote down the Gospels as they thought it should be, and that's what we're left with.

To call Jesus a liar is a bit of an exaggeration, but it's true that early Christians believed the Second Coming was imminent. Actually, around the year A.D. 1,000 was some mass hysteria for 4 reasons: the Vikings were raiding northern European coastal towns, the Magyars were steamrolling through eastern Europe to eventually settle in Hungary, killing everything in their path, the Muslims in North Africa were at their peak and were threatening Europe by taking over more than half of Spain, and would have continued were it not for Charles Martel, a French king (!) who defeated them. The final reason we know all to well: I'll just call it YK. It was simply hysteria surrounding the fact that the year 1,000 would be an important number.

Well, 1,000 came and went, The Vikings and Magyars were converted, the Moors were pushed back.... That was really the end of belief in the imminence of End of Times.

BTW, Torog, stop deluding yourself and others, it's useless.