The Joys of Catholicism

[Right Divider]

What I'm going to go ahead and say here is that what He did in Matthew 16 was predict His Ascension.

Go ahead and MAKE AN ARGUMENT.

Claims are a dime a dozen around here.

He knew He wasn't sticking around after His Resurrection, He was preparing for His departure.

More unsupported claims...

What was supposed to happen? Were His disciples and believers in Him just supposed to live their lives according to what the Bible said about Him? How was that supposed to work, when there was no New Testament when He ascended?

They were supposed to endure to the end as their great tribulation was about to begin.

 

[7djengo7]

Were His disciples and believers in Him just supposed to live their lives according to what the Bible said about Him?

Yeah. For example, some of the things the Bible said about Him were the truths that He is God, and that He was crucified, died, was buried, rose from the dead, and ascended to heaven. To live according to those truths is to live according to what the Bible said about Him.

How was that supposed to work, when there was no New Testament when He ascended?

What do you mean by "there was no New Testament when He ascended"? Do you mean that those Bible Truths (that He is God, and that He was crucified, died, was buried, rose from the dead, and ascended to heaven, etc.) weren't believed by "His disciples and believers in Him" until the New Testament was penned? Do you mean that those Bible Truths (that He is God, and that He was crucified, died, was buried, rose from the dead, and ascended to heaven, etc.) weren't true until the New Testament was penned? Was the Bible Truth that Jesus is God somehow not true until it was written in the New Testament that Jesus is God? Was the Bible Truth that Jesus raised Himself from the dead somehow not true until the New Testament was penned? The penning of the New Testament didn't cause any of those Bible Truths to be true.

 

[Nick M]

, what you're saying is that we eat symbolically—the symbol.

No, remember what he did.