Would you believe a person, if he claimed himself to be the second coming of JESUS?

Question

Will you think that person is crazy?

Answer 1

I would think he was crazy. If a person came up to me and told me he was God, I would also think it's time to call the men in the white suits to pick up someone who is one brick short of a full load.
That's one reason why I believe Jesus was who He said He was. Jesus claimed to be God. He's the only religious leader of a major religion that did claim that and He made it stick. If you want to start a religion, you say you are a speaker for God or a prophet of God or you received Gods revelation from an angel or something else. One thing you don't do is tell people you are God. People are not stupid. If you tell them you are God, the first thing they are going to ask you is to do some miracle or something to prove you are God. Of course, they did ask Jesus that and he do miracles. The bible is clear about the miracles that He did and not only the bible but extrabiblical sources like Josephus said He did miracles. The Babylonian Talmud which was an anti-christian jewish source said that Jesus was a sorcerer who deceived Isreal. What is a sorcerer? It is someone who does magic and who does things that are miraculous. Neither Buddha nor Confucious nor Muhammad nor any of the other great religious leaders claimed to be God. Had they claimed that, their religion would have never gotten off the ground because that would have created expectations that they couldn't have fulfilled. Buddha's body and Confucious's body and Muhammads body are still in the grave. Jesus's body is missing because He rose from the dead.
Also, the Bible has the signature of God attached to it in many ways. One of those ways is Bible prophecy. The old testament has 333 prophecies about the first coming of Jesus Christ and 456 specific details about his life(all written between 400 and 2200 years before he was born). The 4 gospels in the new testament(Mathew, Mark, Luke & John) tell the story of Jesus. Had those 4 gospel writers chosen to not write their gospels, we could still have re-created the whole life of Christ just from the old testament(all written before he was born). In fact, that is how the christians preached the gospel in the first 20-30 years after the death of Christ. They preached it from the old testament because the new testament was in the process of being written. The story of Christ is all there in the Old Testament including some details about His life that are not even mentioned in the New Testament. Man sees history like a person sees the Rose Parade sitting in the stands. The floats that have already gone by him are like the past. The floats in front of him are like the present. The floats still coming are like the future. These prophets in the old testament who wrote about Jesus Christ seemed to be able to see history the way you would see the Rose Parade from a helicopter. They seemed to be able to see the end from the beginning. That tells me that though they were writing these things down the info was not ultimately coming from them but from a higher source because man simply doesn't see history that way. Also, the bible has amazing knowledge about many scientific principals long before these principals were discovered. Seventeen times in the old testament the bible says that God is "stretching the heavens". For thousands of years bible scholar struggled with what that could possibly mean. Then in 1929 Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe was expanding. The bible told us that long ago.
No other religion or Holy Book has this kind of knowledge. All this tells me that these prophets in both the old and new testament were not nutcases but true prophets of God.

Answer 2

Dear Friend,

No I would not, Jesus himself warned us against these:

Matthew 24:5
For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ, ' and will deceive many.

Mark 13:6
Many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am he,' and will deceive many

Luke 21:8
He replied: "Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not follow them.

The Bible does tell us what his return will be like:

Matthew 24:27
For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Matthew 24:30
"At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory.

Mark 13:26
"At that time men will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

The Bible even tells us exactly how he will come back!

Acts 1:10They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11"Men of Galilee," they said, "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.

Flee from anyone who claims to be the Messiah, for they are not from God! If you look at these scriptures, when Jesus returns, it is safe to say, we will know for sure that it is him!

God Bless

Answer 3

Hello and the exact mannor of Christ's appearing is in 1Thess.4:15-18 by the way satan "will' attempt to copy to some extent Christ appearing, in Matt.24:4 the "First" words out of Christ mouth is not to be decieved, also in Matt.24:23-24 God warns about false Christ and please read the whole chapter and 25 these are last day events and it WILL happen also you can find more info. free bible lessons www.amazingfacts.org God bless.

Answer 4

I would not believe that person.When Jesus comes He will be in the clouds and He will meet His loved ones and believers in the sky.

Answer 5

Nobody believed the 1st jesus's claims to be the messiah....

Answer 6

No
There was only one Jesus.

We are all Christ waiting to awaken.

For Christians that don't like that I encourage you to explain statements like Jhn 14:20 "At that day ye shall know that I [am] in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you."

and

Jhn 14:12 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."

Blessed Be

Answer 7

No I would not believe him. I think that person would be in his own state of mind and give him some money for Coffey so he would kindly back away from me.

Answer 8

People believe Jesus because of long told miracles...
People can believe any bullsh*t if they hear miracles and mysteries.
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Answer 9

I wouldn't believe him unless he descended on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Answer 10

Apparently Jesus 2.0 will not even have to say anything, but you'll somehow just KNOW that it's him.