Basically, on this view, Jesus is not going to physically return in the future and save the good and destroy the wicked. Becoming one with Jesus means giving up one’s self and making way for a new self to come into being, the self of Jesus. This is how Jesus returns. Everyone of us is capabale of enacting a return of Jesus. Christ consciousness is what we aim to achieve.
Doesn’t Jesus teach us that greater things than him are to come? …
Kind of. Christ said that with faith, that man could perform all the miracles that he did and even more.
Kind of. But not quite in the way you describe.
Kind of. But not quite in the way you describe. Jesus said only one thing about his “self”.
“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the father except through me.”
So, accept the Way of Truth and Live. It’s pretty simple. But that doesn’t speak to how he actually returns.
There is nothing in the bible to support such a statement. Christ certainly never said such a thing.
Somebody is mixing up their religions. In Hinduism, the goal is to achieve Krishna consciousness. But nothing in the Bible alludes to or speaks of anything remotely called Christ consciousness.
So let’s see what Christ and the Bible actually say about his second coming. Sure, we can speculate all we want, but it may help if we heard it directly from the source.
“BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and every eye will see Him , even those who pierced Him ; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him” – Revelation 1:7
”…they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. And then He will send forth the angels, and will gather together His elect from the four winds.” Mark 13:26
“Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16–18
“But I say to all of you: In the future you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.” Matthew 26:64
If you’d really like to know how that relates to the modern era, well, hold on to your hat friend.
Welcome to the Cloud Computing and the Age of the Petabyte.
We are learning to image Absolute Truth. A methodology bereft of judgment. A methodology based purely upon acceptance. We no longer must observe and make up our own truth. Truth is beginning to speak for itself. And it has much to say. And it’s all made possible by the Information Cloud.
wired.com/science/discoverie … 7/pb_intro
When related to Christ…
Very soon, it will be impossible to lie to one another. Any statement will be verifiable immediately. Deception will be conquered, marking the reign of Truth.
Did Jesus, ever claim to be GOD?
I’m not so certain about the “very soon” part, but the rest is true.
No. Not “God the Father” anyway. God has perspectives. It isn’t a simple issue.