List of people claimed to be Jesus: Difference between revisions

This is a list of notable people who have made statements claiming to be

Claimants for being Jesus

• Simon Magus and Dositheos the Samaritan^[1], mid first century
• Montanus, who claimed to be the promised Paraclete, mid second century
• Adalbert
  , a bishop who claimed miraculous powers circa 744. The Pope excommunicated him.
• Tanchelm of Antwerp (ca. 1110), who violently opposed the sacrament and the Eucharist.

Eighteenth century

• Ann Lee (1736–1784), a central figure to the Shakers who thought she "embodied all the perfections of God" in female form in 1772.

Nineteenth century

• Bernhard Müller (c. 1799–1834) claimed to be the Lion of Judah and a prophet in possession of the Philosopher's stone 1829.
• John Nichols Thom - Cornishman tax rebel who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and his body temple of the Holy Ghost^{[citation needed]} in 1834. He was killed by British soldiers at the Battle of Bossenden Wood, on May 31, 1838 in Kent, England. (1799 - 1838).
• Arnold Potter - Schismatic Latter Day Saint leader; called himself "Potter Christ" in 1856. (1804 – 1872)

Twentieth century

• Father Divine (George Baker) (c. 1880 – September 10, 1965), an African American spiritual leader from about 1907 until his death who claimed to be God in 1907.
• Charles Manson (b. 1934), leader of the "Manson family" who ordered his followers to kill in preparation for the end of the world. He also claimed to be Satan.
• Laszlo Toth (b. 1940) claimed he was Jesus Christ as he battered Michelangelo's Pieta with a geologist hammer.
• Georges-Ernest Roux – Founder of the Universal Christian Church, now named Universal Alliance, clamed to be Jesus, then God, called the "Christ of Montfavet" or "Georges-Christ" in 1952.^[2] (1903 - 1981)
• Ernest Norman, founder of the Unarius Academy of Science, was allegedly Jesus in a past life in 1954.^[3] (1904 – 1971)
• Ahn Sahng-hong – South Korean man worshiped by World Mission Society Church of God in 1964. (1918 - 1985)
• Inri Cristo - A Brazilian man who claims to be the second Jesus in 1969.^[4]. (1948 - )
• murder suicide at Jonestown
  , Guyana. (1931 - 1978)
• Laszlo Toth – Hungarian-born Australian who vandalised Michelangelo's Pietà in 1972.
• Hale-Bopp
  . (1931 – 1997) 1975
• Ariffin Mohamed – Also known as "Ayah Pin", the founder of the banned Sky Kingdom in Malaysia in 1975. He claims to be the incarnation of Jesus, as well as Muhammad, Shiva, and Buddha.^[5]
  (1943 - )
• Branch Davidian
  religious sect, proclaimed that he was "the Son of God, the Lamb" in 1983.
• Apollo Quiboloy (1950 - ), who claims that Jesus Christ is the "Almighty Father," that Quiboloy is "His Appointed Son," and that salvation is now completed. Proclaims himself as the "Appointed Son of the God" not direct to the point as the "Begotten Son of the God" in 1985.
• Ecopolis Tiberkul in Southern Siberia in 1990.^[3]
  (1961 - )
• Maria Devi Christos (b. 1960), founder of the Great White Brotherhood
  in 1990.
• Ecopolis Tiberkul
  in Southern Siberia in 1991.
• David Icke (1952 - ), of Great Britain, has described himself as "the son of God", and a "channel for the Christ spirit" in 1991.
• Matayoshi Jesus – In 1997 he established the World Economic Community Party based on his conviction that he is the God and Christ.^[4]
  (1944 - )
• Wayne Bent
  - End of the World Cult in 2000 (1941 - )
• Thomas Harrison Provenzano^[5] – convicted murderer who possibly was mentally ill. Provenzano compared his execution with Jesus Christ's crucifixion. (1949 – 2000)
• José Luis de Jesús Miranda
  – Organizer of Growing in Grace who claims that the resurrected Christ "integrated himself within me" in 2007. (1946 - )

Claimants for being siblings of Jesus

• Hong Xiuquan – Self-proclaimed "little brother" of Jesus Christ. He formed an army that fought in the Taiping Rebellion, which ultimately caused the deaths of over 25 million people.

Claimants for being Christ/Messiah, but not Jesus

• Second Coming of Christ) being the only person in Islamic history who claimed to be both. He claimed to be Jesus in the metaphorical sense; in character. He founded the Ahmadiyya Movement within Islam in 1889 envisioning it to be the rejuvenation of Islam, and claimed to be commissioned by God for the reformation of mankind.^[6] He declared that Jesus of Nazareth survived crucifixion and died a natural death having migrated towards the east.^[7]
• second coming of Christ
  , but not Jesus himself in 1980. (1945 -)
• second coming of Christ
  , but not Jesus himself in 1984. (1920 - )
• Apollo Quiboloy, Founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ religious group in 1985. (1950 - )
• David Shayler
  – former MI5 (British Security Service) officer who gained notoriety after being prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act for his passing secret documents to the press. In July 2007 Shayler claimed to be a reincarnation of Jesus Christ in 2007. (1965 - ).

People named "Jesus Christ"

• GG Allin – punk rocker, whose real name was Jesus Christ Allin and possessed a large cult following. He was given this messianic name because his father, Merle Colby Allin Sr., then 33 years old, told his wife, Arleta Gunther, then 20 years old, that Jesus Christ himself had visited him and told him that his newborn son would be a great and all powerful man in the vein of the Messiah.

See also

• List of avatar claimants
• List of Buddha claimants
• List of messiah claimants
• List of people who have been considered deities
• Messiah
• Messiah complex
• People claiming to be the Mahdi

Notes

1. ISBN 0-19-512370-0.(meta-citation
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2. ^ I, Jesus—Son of God—acknowledge on this date of September 25/26, 1995: 1. I am about to return to my Father's Kingdom. 1A. This "return" requires that I prepare to lay down my borrowed human body in order to take up, or reenter, my body (biological) belonging to the Kingdom of God (as I did appx. 2000 years ago when I laid down the body that was about 33 years old in order to reenter my body belonging to the Kingdom of Heaven). Marshall Applewhite (1995). UNDERCOVER JESUS SURFACES. alt.consciousness.mysticism. Retrieved August 15, 2005.
3. ^ "After the Upper House Election, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi should hand the seat of the Prime Minister to Jesus Matayoshi, the one true God."Cgunson
4. ^ Link to a BBC article on his statements and claims.
5. ^ For the past three weeks the face of "the master", as her followers call her, has smiled out from laminated posters tied to traffic lights and road signs advertising the event and bearing the message: "See the living god". Mullins, Andrew (June 20, 1999). "Cult warning on travelling 'god'". The Independent (London).
6. ^ Followers of Suma Ching Hai claim she is the living reincarnation of Buddha and Jesus Christ, and go so far as to drink her bathwater and buy up her used personal items, marketed as "Celestial Clothing." One disciple bought her sweat socks for $ 1,100 because "when the Master leaves the physical world, at least I will have her socks." Phillips, Andrew (January 13, 1997). "Cash and the campaign". Maclean Hunter Limited.
7. ^ In an article from The Guardian he states: "It's all very complicated", he starts quietly. "But to keep things simple, yes, I am Jesus Christ. That which was promised must come to pass. And it was promised in Israel 2,000 years ago that I would return, that I would come back to finish what was started. I am not God (My emphasis). And it is a mistake to see Jesus as God. But I am the living word of God the Father. Everything that God wants to say, he says through me".
8. ^ "Killer Who Said He Was Jesus Is Executed". CBS News. June 21, 2000. Retrieved February 10, 2010.