Has Jesus Already Returned? No? Are You Really Sure?

[MineralMan]

National Geographic Invites you to Learn More

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/07/jesus-messiah-faith-social-media/

This Man Claims He Is Jesus Christ Reincarnated

A self-proclaimed Messiah in Brazil casts his net for disciples on social media.

Sometime in 1979, while Álvaro Theiss was fasting, he came to believe that he was Jesus Christ reborn. He received a divine message in the form of a voice in his head, and, in the days that followed, he decided to permanently shed his former name and refer to himself as “INRI Cristo,” a tribute to the inscription “Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum” that the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate inscribed on the cross on which Jesus was crucified.

INRI now lives with 12 of his disciples—three men and nine women—in a compound surrounded by barbed wire and an electric fence outside of Brasília, Brazil, in a town he has named New Jerusalem.



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He regularly preaches on YouTube and on Facebook Live, on which he has over 330,000 followers. His disciples edit the videos at the compound in New Jerusalem.

[AtheistCrusader]

1. Unable to validate or dismiss.

[MineralMan]

3. Indeed.

What can one say, really?

[samnsara]

2. i did my psych undergrad internship at a Mental institution.. I saw a LOT of Jesus'

[MineralMan]

5. I am not surprised. However,

what if one of them really were? That's the question. No doubt we'd be suspect of anyone making that claim. How would we know? That's always the question, I think, anytime a Messiah figure shows up.

[zipplewrath]

4. Yes, in North America

He arranged to leave behind a set of golden tablets that you needed special glasses to read. They wrote all about it.

[MineralMan]

7. That is absolutely correct, according to many.

True? Who can say? What if it were? Why do people disbelieve that story, or the one in the article in National Geographic?

Faith. It varies.

[Achilleaze]

8. Only us really cool members of the In Crowd have those glasses

So sorry, sort of, that the rest of you will roast in eternal Hell along with the republicans & russians.

[zipplewrath]

18. I'll wait for ebay

They'll turn up sooner or later.

[Act_of_Reparation]

6. Jesus returned?

Shit, I hadn't realized he'd left. I was gonna ask him to pick me up a six pack and a carton of camels. Oh well.

[MineralMan]

9. Looks like you missed him again.

Bummer!

[Alpeduez21]

10. He lives in an isolated compound

with 3 men and nine women. Know what I'm saying?

Know what I mean?

[MineralMan]

13. Apostles. Twelve of them.

I'm just saying...

[PdxSean]

19. ;-)

[packman]

11. I won't accept him until he has a TV show

and sells survival food for the upcoming apocalypse and has a mega-church deep in the heart of Texas.

BTW - love that photo, is that The Sermon on the Toolshed?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

12. He better cast his net for a fashion consultant.

[marylandblue]

14. That photo looks pretty convincing

and 12 disciples is the right number, so, I am subscribing to his YouTube channel now so I can see the Rapture i real time.

[Alpeduez21]

15. It's the sermon mounted on the tiny house

[MineralMan]

17. Indeed.

[MineralMan]

16. There's a whole slide show at the NatGeo site.

He sure looks the part.

[PdxSean]

20. So it was THIS guys voice Pence has been hearing.

Mystery solved.

[MineralMan]

21. Could be. Who can say what voices Pence hears in his head?

I don't think I want to know. It's usually "Mother," I imagine.