Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: pmafire!geoff@uunet.uu.net (Geoff Allen) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Words of Jesus (was Re: MailJC) Message-ID: Date: 18 Sep 90 08:01:10 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho Lines: 29 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu sandrock@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Mark T. Sandrock) writes (with an introductory comment from clh): >[This discussion seems to have wandered from its original subject. >Mark made a reference to the Son of Man "who is to come" that >suggested he might think it is someone other than Jesus. >Geoff Allen quoted Act 1:11 to suggest that the one who would come >is the same as Jesus. --clh] And Mark replied with several verses in which Jesus referred to the coming Comforter whom He would send: >By the designations: `Spirit of Truth', `Comforter', and `Holy Ghost', >Jesus meant the Son of Man, Who will come to continue His Mission shortly >before the setting in of the Last Judgment. Whoa! Where do you get that? As far as I'm aware, it is universally understood (and has been throughought church history) that the Comforter Jesus spoke of is the Holy Spirit, who came to the believers at Pentecost. Especially the direct reference to ``Holy Ghost'' seems hard to explain away under your theory. The Son of Man is Jesus, and He used the term often in reference to Himself, and does not use the term to refer to the Comforter whom He would send. -- Geoff Allen \ Since we live by the Spirit, uunet!pmafire!geoff \ let us keep in step with the Spirit. bigtex!pmafire!geoff \ -- Gal. 5:25 (NIV)