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Premise 1: If the gospels, epistles and Revelation all make the claim that Jesus was to return during his generation’s lifetime,
Premise 2: and if the second and third century Christians believed Jesus had not yet come back,
Conclusion: then, the first century Christians wrote the scriptures and the second and third century Christians did not change them.
Mat 24:34 KJV Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
This is an inductive argument. If the 2nd and 3rd century Christians were “in the habit of changing the text” to meet their theology, then they would have changed the time statements that say Jesus was coming back in his generation. These time statements prove that the first century Christians wrote the new testament writings and that the second and third century Christians did not change the new testament writings.