Originally Posted by Hitch
The point is to locate those passages that best support the teaching. I have no idea what is so hard for you understand about that or why it is a problem. Perhaps it is your less than precise way of communicating what it is exactly you are asking and/or stating?
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The purpose here is to gather the best evidence from Scripture in support of the bodily return of Christ. If nothing else comes of it so far we have demonstrated, with a clear display of disagreement with in the camp, that many of the 'proofs' taken from the gospels do not fit best evidence.
One could and have wondered if you are saying that there is no actual 'proof', at least in the Gospels, that Christ will return bodily, despite the fact that some of us have expressed the opposite, i.e., there is ample proof not only to be found in the Gospels but throughout the NT for a bodily return of Christ.

Your less than congenial approach which several have also noticed and communicated to me in private doesn't help matters either. It tends to cloud things even further making it difficult for some of us to understand where you are coming from. And it has deterred several from even entering into dialog with you in this thread. Perhaps this might be something you could ponder a bit and make it a matter or prayer?

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