Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, “wait2” is a “resurrection from 17 years ago.” Anybody who takes the Bible even halfway literally has some ‘splaining to do: why didn’t Jesus come back when he said he would?
Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ broken promises
June 7, 2023 • 9:00 am
Basis for the legend of “The Wandering Jew”. If even just *one* person remained alive, the terms of the promise still could be met.
So if we were to toss the Wandering Jew and he landed on neither head nor tail but balanced on his pinky finger, would that disprove the salvation/damnation binary?
“some” indicates at least three in my book.
That’s English. What does it say in the Greek? (Or, actually, what did Jesus say in Aramaic?) 😉
Just checked the Greek, where the word is τινες, which is a plural pronoun. So you’d need at least two Wandering Jews!
How did you get Greek to show up here in WordPress? Thanks in advance!
On the subject of Jesus returning, I recommend the novel “Jesus Christs” by A.J. Langguth (1968), which imagines Jesus Christ returning over and over again in different forms under different contemporary circumstances. A little dated perhaps, but still a stimulating and thought-provoking view of how he would react to more modern problems.
It’s no secret that Jesus was supposed to come back while his contemporaries were still alive; I think the notion was supposed to stoke hope. It’s been over 2,000 years now, which pretty much proves Jesus won’t be returning (assuming he was even here in the first place). This is just another Christian absurdity that Christians can’t seem to grasp as absurd…or Jesus forbid, he lied!!!
Maybe he winked when he said it? Or had his fingers crossed? Neither of which was recorded in the Gospel.