QUOTE(Asterix @ Nov 7 2004, 06:56 PM)
I remember having read a story recently, telling about a supposed appearance of Christ in a village in Africa (it happened some years ago). The report says that Christ walked among the villagers, healed some sick men, and then just vanished...
In our times, anybody with long hair, beard, and a white robe could pass like Christ.
OR, the other side of the coin, if Christ would come, chances are nobody would recognize him. I can imagine the tabloids..."Too much dope for subway looney--thinks he is Christ"
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In our times, anybody with long hair, beard, and a white robe could pass like Christ.
OR, the other side of the coin, if Christ would come, chances are nobody would recognize him. I can imagine the tabloids..."Too much dope for subway looney--thinks he is Christ"
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The second coming is deffinatly not going to be some peaceful preacher with a robe... The second coming will be more like a conqueror with the face, posture, and attitude of one. The second coming will kill many people as opposed to some earlier messiahs. The second coming will be more like Genghis Khan or Alexander the Great except will have more luck and philanthropical and benevolent beliefs of humanity. The second coming will wage an epic war against human corruption and the supposed anti-christ. How the second coming will achieve all of this is a major puzzle. In the time of Jesus or Buddha the spiritual mind was more in charge as opposed to the material mind which is more in charge in these current modern times. In the time of Jesus or Buddha there were not as many mental defectives, drug addicts, and false prophets/messiahs running around, therefore there were not as many materialist psychologists. If the second coming suddenly appeared, mounting a white horse and waving a sword or giving a charismatic speech, the second coming would probably end up in a mental institution right away with complete disregard of the unique appearance of the second coming... They would probably drug up the mind of or in some way destroy the second coming due to their ignorance. Unless the second coming was to perform a miracle to try and give proof, if the second coming is allowed to that is, and even if the second coming did give proof, there would deffinatly be corrupt humans trying to keep the second coming locked up due to worrying about their egos, money, and material possesions which they worship. Now... this probably reminds you of the story of the demise of Jesus but in a more modern perspective. How would the second coming get out of this fate? If caught, would the second coming be rescued by divine intervention? Probably not. So far in history nobody has been rescued in such a way, Not even Jesus. A more likely belief is if the second coming inspired a few followers befrore getting caught and they would end up rescuing the second coming, Or the second coming would not get caught in the first place, and would wander around the earth blending in, laying low, and playing stupid, being helpless and standing by as the world crumbles at the hands of the anti-christ. The anti-christ would not have this trouble because if you have not figured out by now the anti-christ would be the head egoistical materialist and fuel the fire of human corruption, and would probably look like any asshole politician we have today, and according to most scripture will be believed to be the second coming and will perform miracles and wonders to incite that belief. Meanwhile... the real second coming is probably mourning and collecting dust somewhere.
Now your probably wondering how the hell this second coming would wage war...
The second coming would probably want to wage an epic, dramatic, poetic, and "fun" war just like they are in movies of today or in ancient texts. The second coming would exercise the glory of war instead of the more gloomy parts of it. Now we all know the popular belief is that wars are bad and aweful etc... Especially with all the senseless modern wars of today, But this changes when your talking about a once and for all, war to end all wars, good vs evil, uniting the earth and humanity, type of war, where afterwards there is supposed to be a big party and then peace for 1,000 years untill the cycle begins all over... Anyway, back to our man of the hour. How will the second coming wage this war...? Would the second coming try to develop more advanced but less destructive technology then we currently have? Would the second coming rely on luck and destiny and just go back to using melee tactics like in the old days? How would the second coming survive charging against machine gun fire or even survive an atomic or biological attack?! Would the second coming's forces be vast or outnumbered? Would the forces of the anti-christ fight and destroy each other and the second coming would jump in occasionaly with his force to deal a few blows? Would the forces of nature aid? Would dudes from outer space decide to join in and help out the poor guy? All important questions on the subject for you to decide. The second coming will probably be granted or gain immortality or eternal youth, but still be susceptible to injury, so that the second coming may stick around in the aftermath of the war to instruct and teach a completely new universal religion and set up the new government and laws, or simply the second coming will pass away and a descendant will handle all the cleaning up and rebuilding in the aftermath. All this, that is, only if the second coming achieves victory in the first place and the super computer program of the universe, the eyes of truth, the universal justice and overlord, the great spirit, aka "god" does not change its plans, or decides to abort project humanity for good.
Thank you for reading my babble and commentary on the apocalypse and the rest of the different prophecies of the fate of humanity.