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If Jesus Showed up Today...

firedragon

Veteran Member
Would he end up in a mental institution rather than have been executed?

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In a world that didnt do either one of those to George Bush, maybe people will worship him all over again.
 

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
A Messiah who managed to die of old age. Does not seem a common practice among messiahs.
Bahaollah died at the age of 75, but he was not the messiah. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was a messiah. He died at the age of 73. Sayyed ʻAlí Muḥammad Shírází aka 'Bab', died young at the age of 31. He is termed as Messiah by Bahais.
 

Psalm23

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I think if Jesus showed up today, I would be so happy. I would like to come in his arms. I may ask him lots of questions or may just be content to be with him. I would like to see any animals that may be in heaven. I’m curious what angels look like and how their wings would feel like.
 

Vee

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Premium Member
Would he end up in a mental institution rather than have been executed?

I don't think so, but he would have been a huge sensation on social media. If he had thousands of followers two thousand years ago, imagine what he could have done today with Fb, Tiktok, Instagram, snapchat and youtube, just to mention a few.
 

PoetPhilosopher

Veteran Member
I think if Jesus showed up today, I would be so happy. I would like to come in his arms. I may ask him lots of questions or may just be content to be with him. I would like to see any animals that may be in heaven. I’m curious what angels look like and how their wings would feel like.

Would you wonder while he didn't show up with a wrath and a mouth-sword as depicted in Revelation?
 

Harel13

Am Yisrael Chai
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I'd just ignore him all over again and hope others did likewise. I don't think he should be locked up, but if he were in Israel preaching his stuff I would hope he'd be deported...
Not with our wokey government...
 

Psalm23

Well-Known Member
Would you wonder while he didn't show up with a wrath and a mouth-sword as depicted in Revelation?

I understand Jesus coming again to judge the world and also to reign a thousand years on the earth. I believe when Jesus comes back, the whole world will see him.
 
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PoetPhilosopher

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What do Wiccans believe happens when they die?

It depends. Some believe in reincarnation, but reincarnating into animals and bugs isn't something they usually believe in. Just other humans.

I was just thinking about Gates because this thread seems rather focused on the Abrahamic.
 

paarsurrey

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If Jesus showed up again, how would somebody like me know that he was the same guy that the new testament talks about? I don't know what the earlier Jesus looked like or sounded like. So the first problem is how to identify him.

The mere fact that in my experience dead people don't return constitutes pretty good justification for my thinking that the new guy is not the Jesus of Christian religious myth.

So the new guy would probably come across as another street corner religious prophet. Many (but not all) of these probably do suffer from psychiatric problems.

The first Jesus lived in a very different time and cultural environment. His message made lots of sense in terms of the Judaism of his time, particularly its more apocalyptic variants. Today his message, if delivered the same way, wouldn't have anything like the same cultural resonance.

I'd just ignore him, I guess, unless he was performing miracles that made him impossible to ignore. I'm not sure what I would think then.
" I don't know what the earlier Jesus looked like or sounded like. So the first problem is how to identify him. "

Jesus was a prophet/messenger of God/Allah/YHVH. They are not basically recognized from their appearance but by the criteria of a truthful prophet.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad- the Promised Messiah/Imam Mahdi is/was needed by the time Just like Jesus s/o Mary.
Right?

Regards
 
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