List of people claimed to be Jesus: Difference between revisions

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Muslims believe that 'Isa (Jesus) will return at a time close to the end of the world.^{[1][Quran 43:61]}

Ancient claimants

• Jesus of Nazareth (c. 5BC – c. 30 AD),^[2]
• Christ, calling himself the Standing One. In place of the Christ of the Christians he proclaimed himself; and the Law he allegorized in accordance with his own preconceptions.^[3]
• Judas the Galilean.^[5]
• Gospel of John 14:16^[6] and would set up the New Jerusalem in the small town of Pepuza in Phrygia.^[7]

• Adalbert, a bishop who claimed miraculous powers circa 744, he also claimed to have a letter from Christ and gained many followers, he was excommunicated by Pope Zachary.^[8]
• Tanchelm of Antwerp (ca. 1115), who violently opposed the sacrament and the Eucharist in 1112. His followers are reported to have allowed himself to be venerated almost to the point of worship, he was murdered by priests in 1115.^[9]

Eighteenth century

• Ann Lee (1736–1784), a central figure to the Shakers,^[10] who thought she "embodied all the perfections of God" in female form and considered herself to be Christ’s female counterpart in 1772.^[11]

Nineteenth century

• Bernhard Müller (1799–1834), claimed to be the Lion of Judah and a prophet in possession of the Philosopher's stone in 1829.
• 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.
• William W. Davies (1833–1906), leader of a Latter Day Saint schismatic group called the Kingdom of Heaven located in Walla Walla, Washington from 1867 to 1881. He taught his followers that he was the archangel Michael, who had previously lived lives as the biblical Adam, Abraham, and David. When his son Arthur was born on 11 February 1868, Davies declared that the infant was the reincarnated Jesus Christ. When Davies's second son, David, was born in 1869, he was declared to be God the Father.
• Arnold Potter (1804–1872), Schismatic Latter Day Saint leader; he claimed the spirit of Jesus Christ entered into his body and he became "Potter Christ" Son of the living God, he died in the attempt to ascent into heaven.^[12]
• Bahá'u'lláh. They commonly compare the fulfillment of Christian prophecies to Jesus' fulfillment of Jewish prophecies, where in both cases people were expecting the literal fulfillment of apocalyptic statements.^[15]

• African American spiritual leader who founded the International Peace Mission movement from about 1907 until his death and claimed to be God.^[16]
• Rastafari movement which emerged in Jamaica during the 1930s believes he is the Second Coming (although he himself did not encourage this belief). He embodied this when he became Emperor of Ethiopia n 1930, perceived as confirmation of the return of the Messiah in the prophetic Book of Revelation in the New Testament but is also expected to return a second time to initiate the apocalyptic day of judgment. He is also called Jah Ras Tafari, is often considered to be alive by Rastafari movement members.^[17]
• Holy Ghost on earth.^[18]
• race war. He also claimed to be Satan
  .
• Universal Christian Church in France 1952, now named Universal Alliance, clamed to be Jesus, then God, called the "Christ of Montfavet" or "Georges-Christ".^[19] He presented himself as a persecuted prophet to carry out the law of love unfulfilled by God's representatives including Jesus.^[20]

• Tsar Peter I the Great.^[22]
• Second Coming of Jesus. The church believes that his wife Zahng Gil-Jah is "God the Mother," who they believe is referred to in the Bible as the New Jerusalem Mother Galatians 4:26, and that Ahn Sahng-Hong is God the Father^[23]
• Inri Cristo (1948-), a Brazilian astrologer who claims to be the second Jesus reincarnated in 1969,^[24] Brasília is considered by Inri Cristo and his disciples as the “New Jerusalem” of the Apocalypse.
• Jmmanuel
  in 1974.

• murder suicide at Jonestown, Guyana on 18 November 1978.^[25]
• Laszlo Toth (1940-), Hungarian-born Australian who claimed he was Jesus Christ as he vandalised Michelangelo's Pietà with a geologist hammer in 1972.^[26][27]
• Buddha, and Muhammad.^[28]
• Yahweh ben Yahweh (1935–2007), born as Hulon Mitchell, Jr., a black nationalist and separatist who created the Nation of Yahweh in 1979 in Liberty City, Florida. His self-proclaimed name means "God, Son of God." He could have only been deeming himself to be "son of God", not God, but many of his followers clearly deem him to be God Incarnate.^[29][30] He allegedly orchestrated the murder of dozens of persons.^[31]
• Nirmala Srivastava (1923-), an Indian guru and goddess of Sahaja Yoga movement she founded, in 1979 Nirmala Srivastava declared herself to be the complete incarnation of the Adi (Primordial) Shakti^[32][33] or the Comforter promised by Jesus ie the incarnation of the Holy Spirit to her devotees.^[34] She has also claimed to be Maitreya and the Mahdi.^[35]

• FBI ended with Branch Davidian ranch burning, Koresh, 54 adults and 21 children were found dead after the fire.^[36]
• Marina Tsvigun (1960-), or Maria Devi Christos, is the leader of the Great White Brotherhood.^[37] In 1990 she met Yuri Krivonogov, the "Great White Brotherhood" founder, who recognized Marina as a new messiah and later married her, assuming in the sect the role of "John the Baptist", subordinate to Tsvigun.
• Ecopolis Tiberkul in Southern Siberia in 1990.^[38][4]
• BBC Sports presenter and Green Party spokesman. He described himself as "the son of God", and a "channel for the Christ spirit", and predicted Britain would be devastated by tidal waves and earthquakes in 29 April 1991.^[39]
• Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. He has been sentenced to death
  , and is awaiting execution.
• Hale-Bopp in 1997.^[41]
• World Economic Community Party based on his conviction that he is the God and Christ. According to his program he will do the Last Judgment as Christ but within the current political system.^[6][42]

• Wayne Bent (1941-), leader of the End of the World Cult, also known as Michael Travesser of the Lord Our Righteousness Church, also known as the Strong City Cult a religious community near Travesser Park, Union County, New Mexico originated in 2000. He claims; "I am the embodiment of God. I am divinity and humanity combined."^[43] He was convicted on 15 December 2008 of one count of criminal sexual contact of a minor and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor in 2008.^[44]
• Thomas Harrison Provenzano^[7] (1949–2000), an American convicted murderer who was possibly mentally ill. He compared his execution with Jesus Christ's crucifixion.^[45]
• José Luis de Jesús Miranda (1941-), Puerto Rican founder, leader and organizer of Growing in Grace based in Miami, Florida, who claims that the resurrected Christ "integrated himself within me" in 2007.^[46]

• Manchu Qing dynasty rulers. After this alleged vision he felt a duty to spread Christianity (in the form he had developed) and overthrow Qing's foreign rule.^[48] He formed an army that fought in the Taiping Rebellion, which ultimately caused the deaths of over 25 million people in 1851, conquering a large part of China and establishing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
  , before by defeat Imperial forces in 1864.

• promised Messiah at the end of time, 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 in 1889 envisioning it to be the rejuvenation of Islam, and claimed to be commissioned by God for the reformation of mankind.^[49] He declared that Jesus survived crucifixion and died a natural death having migrated towards the east.^[50]
• Amicale
  , proponents of which subsequently adopted him as Messiah in the late 1920s.

• Second Coming of Christ and is anointed to fulfill Jesus' unfinished mission.^[51]
• Universal Christian Gnostic Movement
  ', according to him, 'the most powerful movement ever founded'. By 1972, he referenced that his death and resurrection would be occurring before 1978.
• Claude Vorilhon now known as Raël "messenger of the Elohim" (1946-), a French professional test driver and former automobile journalist became founder and leader of UFO religion the Raël Movement in 1972, which teaches that life on Earth was scientifically created by a species of extraterrestrials, which they call Elohim. He claimed he met an extraterrestrial humanoid in 1973 and became the Messiah.^[52] Then devoted himself to the task he said was given by his "biological father", an extraterrestrial named Yahweh.^[53]
• Second Coming of Christ, but not Jesus himself in 1980.^[57] He believes he has come to finish the incomplete message and mission of Jesus Christ, asserting that he is the Messiah and has the responsibility to save all mankind.^[58] He claims that the Christian doctrine of resurrection is false but that people can be saved through him.^[59]
• Kingdom of Jesus Christ religious group, 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.^[60]
• David Shayler (1965-), is a British journalist, former MI5 officer and whistleblower who gained notoriety after being prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act for his passing secret documents to the press. Who declared himself the Messiah On 7 July 2007, claming to be a reincarnation of Jesus Christ,^[61] in line with ancient prophecies.^[61]
• World Teacher (unknown), claims to be the Maitreya and promised one of all religions and is currently living in London since 19 July 1977;^[62][63][64] promoted by New Age activist Benjamin Creme and his organization, Share International
  .

• GG Allin (1956–1993), an American 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.^[65]

See also

• Cult of personality
• Doomsday cult
• Jewish Messiah claimants
• People claiming to be the Mahdi
• List of messiah claimants
• List of avatar claimants
• List of Buddha claimants
• List of founders of religious traditions
• List of people who have been considered deities
• Messiah
• Messiah complex
• True-believer syndrome
• Unfulfilled religious prophecies

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.