WHO ARE WE GOING TO BELIEVE?

Really, Who are we going to believe? The words and teaching of the Apostles...or the words of our favorite theologian.

The esteemed C.S. Lewis said that the return of Christ was an embarrassment to Christianity because it did not happen.

Problem is, C.S. Lewis should be embarrassed, for Christs return happened EXACTLY as He and his apostles taught...In the first century.

To declare and teach anything else is to make Christ and his divinely inspired apostles to be liars. I prefer to conclude that the theologians who do not see the truth of the first century parousia are wrong.

"Say what you like," we shall be told, "the apocalyptic beliefs of the first Christians have been proved to be false. It is clear from the New Testament that they all expected the Second Coming in their own lifetime. And, worse still, they had a reason, and one which you will find very embarrassing. Their Master had told them so. He shared, and indeed created, their delusion. He said in so many words, ‘this generation shall not pass till all these things be done.’ And He was wrong. He clearly knew no more about the end of the world than anyone else. It is certainly the most embarrassing verse in the Bible."

Essay "The World's Last Night" (1960), found in The Essential C.S. Lewis, p-385.