If Christ Came Back Would We Recognize Him?

Question

Seriously. What if he decided to come back as a black man from Chicago? Or maybe a Nicaraguan woman? Or what if he had sold used cars in California before he began his ministry (After all, Christ was a carpenter, a decidedly middle class profession)? What if his teachings didn't neatly fit into your traditional religious views?

I'm not being facetious. How would you know?

Let's assume, by the way, that Gabriel's Trumpet doesn't sound. He just comes to earth to start his ministry again.

Answer 1

If I came back to Earth, would you recognize me?

Answer 2

You would know Him if you was of like Spirit. You follow His teachings in the New Testament and there would be no mistake. You are to know the mind of Christ and the only way to do this is by reading His Word and through prayer. The wisdom to know and the knowledge to understand, these are the two I pray for continually.

Answer 3

Jesus said when he comes back it will be like lightning from one end of the sky to the other.

There will be no mistaking it - when Jesus returns, every single person on earth will know for certain.

So if someone tells you that they are Jesus, and you doubt it, you are right. When Jesus returns, there will be no room for doubt.

"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.

"So if anyone tells you, 'There he is, out in the desert,' do not go out; or, 'Here he is, in the inner rooms,' do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man."
- Jesus in Matthew 24

Answer 4

What if Christ came back as an agnosticist instead of as a Christian? What if Christ came back to tell us that everything that humanity has believed for thousands of years is, while not wrong, not what we are to believe for the next two thousand? What if Christ was an Economist, who believed in systems, but not in people? What if Christ ate chicken fried rice?

What if Christ liked video games? Should humanity appease christ by making video games? I say yes.

Answer 5

It's a good guess that westerner Christians wouldn't have liked Jesus to look like one of Saddam's cousins:

(a) http://tinyurl.com/pcoqu

But according to forensics specialists, the above is a good guess about Jesus's general appearance.

On the other hand there's also this image that bears more than a passing resemblance to Osama bin Laden:

(b) http://tinyurl.com/nr3wx

However, it's a semblance of the Turin shroud, supposedly the burial cloth of Jesus.

Christians prefer the original Jesus to have been an attractive white man with European facial features, and somewhat delicate in overall appearance. Anything else, I think, would be a great disappointment to many of them.

Answer 6

2 things:
1) Christ is coming back. There is no if.
2) When Christ returns, he is coming fir a different reason.. He is not coming back as a teacher like he came before. He is not going to be born. He is coming back to establish his kingdom on earth. You will know before you see him that he has returned.

Answer 7

Yes, there would be a sounding of the trumpets and the people dead in Christ will rise first, then the living. We will meet Jesus in the clounds.

Answer 8

it saids sumthin in the bible that he is commin behold everyeye wil see him everytribe and culture will mourn over him cuz he is the one and only god the alpha and omega it it saids it like this

Revelation 13:17
so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
Revelation 13:16-18 (in Context) Revelation 13 (Whole Chapter)
Revelation 14:9
A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand,
Revelation 14:8-10 (in Context) Revelation 14 (Whole Chapter)
Revelation 14:11
And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name."
Revelation 14:10-12 (in Context) Revelation 14 (Whole Chapter)
Revelation 16:2
The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly and painful sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped his image.
Revelation 16:1-3 (in Context) Revelation 16 (Whole Chapter)
Revelation 19:20
But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
Revelation 19:19-21 (in Context) Revelation 19 (Whole Chapter)
Revelation 20:4
I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Revelation 20:3-5 (in Context) Revelation 20 (Whole Chapter)
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and i believe it is the truth

Answer 9

as the sun shines from the east to the west, so also will be the coming of the son of man Christ Jesus our Lord. Are you prepared to meet Him?

Answer 10

When Jesus comes back next time to the earth, there will be no mistake who He will be, Rev 19

Answer 11

they didnt recognize him when he was here the 1st time or else they wouldnt have killed him & the same goes for the prophets only a few really when you think about it DID recognize Jesus as the Messia & his teachings then didnt fall in to the society box especially the religious box & thats who killed Jesus was the religious people