Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 154
154 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction visualize a situation where Christ as would actually have come. Is his revisit just a fantasy or can he really revisit the world in person or through proxy? This is a question, which has to be resolved before we can attempt to answer the various doubts mentioned above. Is the world, be it Christian or Muslim, really in a psychological state of mind to accept the second advent of Jesus as ? If so, in what form and in which way? If we see it from the vantage point of both Muslims and the Christians, Jesus as , if he were to ever return, would come with such glory and clear signs, descending from the heavens in broad daylight with angels supporting him, that it would be impossible for even the most sceptical to refuse to accept him. Sadly, only a Jesus as of fantasy is acceptable to the world of to- day, a Jesus as the like of whom never came before in all of human history. If religious history is to be taken seriously, one finds scores of instances in which founders of religions or other divines are reported to have ascended to heaven bodily. These claims are so numerous and so widespread that it seems to be a universal trend of man to concoct such stories in order to elevate and super-humanise his religious leaders. The question is how can we deny all these reporting which are accepted and believed by perhaps billions of people in the world today? The Christians and Muslims alone who believe in this and other similar bizarre events number beyond two billion. So a reader may enquire as to what right we, or anyone else in the world, have to reject all such beliefs as unreal and imaginary. We agree that examining it from this angle will require a ponderous exercise to refute such claims