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In Max Heindel's teaching, there is a distinction between the cosmic Christ, or Christ without, and the Christ within. [78] According to this tradition, the Christ within is regarded as the true Saviour who needs to be born within each individual [ 79 ] in order to evolve toward the future Sixth Epoch in the Earth's etheric plane , that is ...
Predicted date Claimant Notes After 2025 Alice A. Bailey: In January 1946, the New Age Theosophical guru prophesied that Christ would return "sometime after AD 2025" [51]: 530 (Theosophists identify "Christ" as being identical to a being they call Maitreya) to inaugurate the Age of Aquarius; thus, this event will be, according to Bailey, the New Age equivalent of the Christian concept of the ...
In the Book of Acts, Christianity is referred to as "The Way". The NIV renders Paul's words in Acts 24:14 as "I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of the Way, which they call a sect." Rayburn suggests that this was a Christian self-designation, although it did not survive as a title. [3]
The coming of Christ will be instantaneous and worldwide. [107] "For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be." ~ Matthew 24:27; The coming of Christ will be visible to all. [108] "Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will ...
The Church teaches that God loves all people, [3] [4] both those who are present on the earth, as well as those who have been on the earth previously. The theology of the Church holds that all people will be resurrected because of the atonement of Christ; [5] however, in order to gain exaltation, there are certain ordinances which must be performed while on the earth, including baptism ...
Others say that it was actually Judas Iscariot who was mistakenly crucified by the Romans. Regardless, Muslims believe that Jesus is alive in heaven and will return to the world in the flesh to defeat the Antichrist, once the world has become filled with sin, deception and injustice, and then live out the rest of his natural life. [24]
The end of the world or end times [2] is predicted by several world religions (both Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic), which teach that negative world events will reach a climax. Belief that the end of the world is imminent is known as apocalypticism , and over time has been held both by members of mainstream religions and by doomsday cults .
Camping suggested that it would occur at 6 p.m. local time, with the rapture sweeping the globe time zone by time zone, [4] [5] while some of his supporters claimed that around 200 million people (approximately 3% of the world's population) would be 'raptured'. [6] Camping had previously claimed that the rapture would occur in September 1994.