The Second Coming of Christ

Please notice that I do not refer to this event as the Second Coming of Jesus. There’s a reason for that.

Yogananda said, “In titling this work The Second Coming of Christ, I am not referring to a literal return of Jesus to earth. He came two thousand years ago and, after imparting a universal path to God’s kingdom, was crucified and resurrected; his reappearance to the masses now is not necessary for the fulfillment of his teachings.”

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I concur. Unfortunately, from a fundamentalist’s perspective, it could only be the literal return of Jesus. That’s where everything is topsy-turvy, back-to-front. When I went looking for illustrations for Christ’s return, I was shown examples from most Christian religious denominations of something like this:

We are so wrapped up in the perennial icon of imaginary representations of Jesus the man that we cannot even picture what Christ, the anointed one, looks like. John’s writing, as I have referenced previously on this site, is poetic, not literal. So when we read his words, we are meant to be inspired.

Hmm. And not to put to fine a point on it: the religion is Christianity, not Jesus-ism.