Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: The second coming Message-ID: Date: 9 Mar 91 05:33:19 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho Lines: 56 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu rab7166@venus.tamu.edu (BAKER, RICHARD ALAN) writes: >Here is something to think about. How would you react to someone who claimed >to be the second coming of Christ. I would suspect that he(or she) would be >ridiculed a blasphemer(sic), and if we had a religious State which held >blasphemy as a crime, he(or she) would most likely be exicuted for his offense >against the State(sound familiar). Just think about it when you are condeming >the exacutioners of Jesus. Just because the bahavior of the religious leaders in Jesus' day is understandable doesn't mean it's justifiable. > What would you do in the same situation. Next time >you pick up the National Inquirer and see a story about >_Man_Claims_to_be_Christ_ >maybe you shouldn't just laugh it off. There is nothing in the Bible that >claims that miracles can not happen in 1991. True, but there *is* something in the Bible which claims that a man claiming to be Christ is lying to you: At that time if anyone says to you, ``Look, here is the Christ!'' or, ``There he is!'' do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect -- if that were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time. -- Jesus, Matthew 24:23-25 [After Jesus' ascension] ``Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.'' -- Angels, Acts 1:11 Jesus says not to believe any claims about Christs, and two angels said that the second coming would be like the first leaving, and would feature the same Jesus. That seems enough to cast doubt on anyone's claims to Christhood. > So don't be so narrow minded to >believe all of the miracles in the Bible, but ingore all the miracles in the >National Inquirer and Sun. > > Be open-minded An open mind is like an open mouth, useful only if you have something good to chomp down on. -- G. K. Chesterton, paraphrased -- Geoff Allen \ Since we live by the Spirit, uunet!pmafire!geoff \ let us keep in step with the Spirit. geoff@pmafire.inel.gov \ -- Gal. 5:25 (NIV)