It's the easiest answer here is that it didn't happen?

Obscurantist twaddle. 0/10.

Sells, go and have a look at this interview with Stephen Fry and then come back and tell me that you still believe all that eschatological BS.
http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/compass/RN1411H024S00

David

Gee what next? Naturaphy? All the same nonsense.
I will take this opportunity though to whinge about the ABC and it's fawning and facile "respect" for islam. We are getting more experienced and free so despite the ABC we can deride religion and other frauds.

David,
Thank you for the link to the interview with the admirable Steven Fry. I am always interested in the intelligent criticism of Christianity but confused that the opinions so expressed are so lacking in readily available depth. It would be interesting to see an extended conversation with say, Rowan Williams, or John Milbank or Graham Ward, all brilliant English theologians, alive and well and ready to be interviewed.

Fry did not comment on eschatology. Perhaps this is an indication of how shallow his theological position is.

Peter

The only thing supported by factual evidence in this treatise is Newtonian time!
The fact that someone may have said something way back when just a few scribes could read or write; or record or plagiarize something?

Proves nothing, except the Jews were master storytellers and embellishes of written text, so it would fit this or that alleged Prophecy!?

Faith based belief is problematic Peter!

If e.g. you believe a man called Jesus Christ died nailed to a cross as a matter of personal belief, or as a matter of semantics?

Then in order for you to keep that faith based belief, you have to keep open in your mind the possibility of the opposite being true!

Without which, you and all your kind are no better than any other faith based fanatics, who give themselves permission to judge, deny, persecute, pillage and destroy; all in the name of a one true God, who seems powerless toprevent the most terrible things to happen to complete innocents!?

I like iconic history revealing pictures; one of which resides in good company, on the wall as a mural, in the catacombs below the Vatican. (yes I've seen it) And purports to show/reveal a female Pope or the daughter of Peter?

Which may well be one and the same?

So you're expecting the second coming?

Sorry mate, I was just breathing heavily.
Rhrosty.