Is the Promised ‘Second Coming’ of Jesus Christ the Greatest Fib Ever?

Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD
8 min readAug 24, 2018

Much as the story goes, sometime way back about 27 AD, Jesus Christ promised His disciples He would come back a second time, take them to heaven for 1,000 years, then return with them to planet earth, destroy all evildoers, establish new heavens (a new atmosphere) and a new earth.

In that new earth there would not be any pain, no divorce (well no marriage either because guess what, no procreation, kind of a sex downer — how exactly are those who never learnt to live without sex for any period of time expected to cope?), no crying (this feature one has to say is good because it means no rent to pay, no need for food money, glorious bodies create their own overlay of raiment, no boss to please so as not to get fired, no CEOs making 50x the average salary within their firms, nobody boasting in a bar about how they cleaned out on Apple stock, nobody flipping their mansions, only difference perhaps would be sizes of mansions — some people it appears will deserve larger mansions than others).

Well, it’s 2018, we are almost 2,000 years past 27 AD, and Jesus Christ still has yet to show up. One wonders whether all of those ‘Left Behind’ movies are attempts by Christians at convincing of themselves they all already missed the Second Coming. In presence of such an assessment, all remaining Christians are in…

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Oghenovo Obrimah, PhD

Educator and Researcher, Believer in Spirituality, Life is serious business, but we all are pilgrims so I write about important stuff with empathy and ethos