If Christ were alive today, who do you think would be his apostles?

Question

And on what continent would he live?

Answer 1

Peter, Paul, Mary, John, George, Ringo, and Sting

Answer 2

IF. If he were mostly like the mythical figure that supposedly lived in Roman Judea...

If he were alive he'd live in a 3rd world country under military occupation by people not of his religion. Most likely Iraq or Palestine. He'd be both a radical Muslim fundamentalist AND a Communist. He would inisist on having women covered up and hidden away, support the death penalty for most moral offenses, and oppose democracy in favor of theocratic dictatorship. He would want to outlaw personal property, money and luxury. He would be a mystic who would encourage people to feel directly connected to god through various ecstatic rituals. He would encourage people not to work because the end of the world was imminent. He would be a fraudulent faith healer. He would allow and encourage false reports of various miracles by his followers. He would insist on his followers severing ties with their family members if those persons did not agree with his teachings. He would do so with his own family. He would claim that he was the Messiah. He would condemn moderate Muslims and established Imams, along with the various Arab royal families. He would not actively oppose the American or Israeli occupation, feeling that God would come and destroy them in short order anyway.

His followers would be a mixed lot. There would be the poor and desperate who would want some hope and need to believe that a miraculous figure was protecting them. There would be the nationalists and the religious chauvinists who would want him to lead a revolution and expel the invaders. And there would be the mystics who saw his teachings as a way of achieving inner peace or some other such nonsense. Some of his followers would be guerrilla fighters independantly, and many of them would attack civilians and therefore be terrorists.

At first his movement would be completely non-violent, but he would gradually become more and more confrontational with orthodox muslim religious authorities. This would culminate in an attack on some major site of devotion during a religious festival, aimed at destroying commercial activity.

The powers that be would be fed up with him by this point. If they were the Israelis, they would dispense with formalities and just drop a bomb on him. If it were the Americans, they'd have the puppet government arrest him on charges of treason or some such and have them execute him.

Civilized people would be frustrated with their shortsightedness in just creating MORE violence. They would also say "good riddance."

Answer 3

The Apostles would almost surely be unknowns. As for the continent--who knows?

Answer 4

I think he'd have relatively unknown people to be his apostles, just like back in His time. He chooses apostles based on faith, rather than popularity, or what not.

He could live in any continent that he wants, but primarily, I think he would live somewhere in a third-world country.

Answer 5

i think of that the questioner meant if Jesus have been alive interior the FLESH right this moment (a minimum of that's my interpretation of the question). My answer....greater beneficial than in all danger, a individual claiming to be Jesus may be picked up via the police, finally to be seen via a psychiatrist. If He talked of issues that we did no longer understand or understand (like some unknown kingdom the place his Father lives, or asserting that He replaced into God), He might maximum in all danger settle for a extensive dose of Thorazine (or some thing comparable) and further to a psychiatric ward, the place, lacking an influential relative or 2, he might maximum in all danger stay for an enormously long term, regrettably.

Answer 6

A Jesus in 2006 would likely choose those best suited to help spread His Gospel in the technology age. His twelve choices might be as follows: The CEO's of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, FOX, PBS, AP, Simon & Schuster, USA Today.

Answer 7

Christ is alive today, dear Child. And we are called to be HIs apostles.

Answer 8

Billy Graham, James Dobson, Chuck Swindall, Tony Evans, Bob Mumford, T.W. Hunt, to name a few.

Answer 9

Me, and 11 beautiful young women. And we'd all live in a big house on a hill overlooking a beach in Hawaii

Answer 10

I'd be the opposition. Or maybe we'd hang out and get wasted... I don't know. Really, I don't even believe in the guy, but who knows, right? He could have lived... but he didn't get crucified. He didn't rise again. He would have probably been just like you and me.