List Of People Who Claimed To Be Jesus
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19th Century
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John Nichols Thom (1799-1838),
Cornish
tax rebel who claimed to be the "saviour of the world" and the
reincarnation of Jesus Christ and his body temple of the Holy Ghost in
1834. He was killed by British soldiers at the Battle of Bossenden Wood,
on May 31, 1838 in Kent, England.
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 an attempt to "ascend into
heaven" by jumping off a cliff. His body was later retrieved and buried
by his followers.
Baha'u'llah
(1817-1892), born Shiite, adopted Bábism later in 1844, he claimed to
be the prophesied fulfilment and Promised One of all the major
religions. He founded the Bahá'í Faith in 1866. Followers of the Bahá'í
Faith believe that the fulfilment of the prophecies of the second coming
of Jesus, as well as the prophecies of the 5th Buddha Maitreya and many
other religious prophecies, were begun by the Báb in 1844 and then by
Baha'u'llah. They commonly compare the fulfilment of Christian
prophecies to Jesus' fulfilment of Jewish prophecies, where in both
cases people were expecting the literal fulfilment of apocalyptic
statements.
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.
Mirza
Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, India (1835-1908), claimed to be the awaited
Mahdi as well as (Second Coming) and likeness of Jesus the 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.
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20th Century
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Haile Selassie (1892-1975)
the
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 in 1930, perceived as
confirmation of the return of the Messiah in the prophetic Book of
Revelation 5:5 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, and is often considered to be alive by Rastafari
movement members.
George Ernest Roux
(1903-1981)
Called
the "Christ of Montfavet" or "Georges-Christ", founder of the Universal
Christian Church (now named the Universal Alliance) in France, claimed
to be Jesus, then God.
He presented himself as a persecuted prophet to carry out the law of love unfulfilled by God's representatives, including Jesus.
Ernest Norman
(1904-1971)
An
American electrical engineer who co-founded the Unarius Academy of
Science in 1954, was allegedly Jesus in a past life and his earthly
incarnation was as an archangel named Raphiel.
He
claimed to be the reincarnation of other notable figures including
Confucius, Mona Lisa, Benjamin Franklin, Socrates, Queen Elizabeth I,
and Tsar Peter I the Great.
Krishna VentaKrishna Venta
(1911-1958)
Born
Francis Herman Pencovic in San Francisco, founded the WKFL (Wisdom,
Knowledge, Faith and Love) Fountain of the World cult in Simi Valley,
California in the late 1940s.
In
1948 he stated that he was Christ, the new messiah and claimed to have
led a convoy of rocket ships to Earth from the extinct planet
Neophrates.
He
died on 10 December 1958 after being suicide bombed by two disgruntled
former followers who accused Venta of mishandling cult funds and having
been intimate with their wives.
Ahn Sahng-Hong
(1918-1985)
A South Korean who founded the World Mission Society Church of God in 1964, who consider him the 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.
Sun Myung Moon
(1920-)
Believed
by members of the Unification Church to be the Messiah and the Second
Coming of Christ, fulfilling Jesus' unfinished mission.
Church
members ("Unificationists") consider Sun Myung Moon and his wife, Hak
Ja Han, to be the True Parents of humankind as the restored Adam and
Eve.
Jim Jones
(1931-1978)
Founder
of Peoples Temple, which started off as an offshoot of a mainstream
protestant sect before becoming a personality cult as time went on.
He claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus, Akhenaten, Buddha, Vladimir Lenin, and Father Divine in the 1970s.
Organized a mass murder suicide at Jonestown, Guyana on 18 November 1978.
Marshall Applewhite
(1931-1997)
An American who posted a famous Usenet message declaring,
"I, Jesus - Son of God - acknowledge on this date of September 25/26, 1995: ..."
Applewhite
and his Heaven's Gate cult committed mass suicide on March 26, 1997 to
rendezvous with what they thought was a spaceship hiding behind the
comet Hale-Bopp.
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. In 1992, he
was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to 18 years
in prison.
Laszlo Toth
(1940-)
Hungarian-born
Australian who claimed he was Jesus Christ as he vandalized
Michelangelo's Pietà with a geologist's hammer in 1972.
Wayne Bent
(1941-)
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Also known as Michael Travesser of the Lord Our Righteousness Church. He claims;
"I am the embodiment of God. I am divinity and humanity combined."
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.
Ariffin Mohammed
(1943-)
Also known as "Ayah Pin", the founder of the banned Sky Kingdom in Malaysia in 1975.
He
claims to have direct contact with the heavens and is believed by his
followers to be the incarnation of Jesus, as well as Shiva, and Buddha,
and Muhammad.
Mitsuo Matayoshi
(1944-)
A
conservative Japanese politician, who in 1997 established the World
Economic Community Party based on his conviction that he is God and
Christ, renaming himself Iesu Matayoshi. According to his program he
will do the Last Judgment as Christ but within the current political
system.
José Luis de Jesús Miranda
(1946-)
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.
Inri Cristo
(1948-)
A
Brazilian astrologer who claims to be the second Jesus reincarnated in
1969, Brasília is considered by Inri Cristo and his disciples as the
"New Jerusalem" of the Apocalypse.
Thomas Harrison Provenzano
(1949-2000)
An American convicted murderer who was possibly mentally ill. He compared his execution with Jesus Christ's crucifixion.
Shoko Asahara
(1955-)
Founded the controversial Japanese religious group Aum Shinrikyo in 1984.
He declared himself "Christ", Japan's only fully enlightened master and the "Lamb of God".
His
purported mission was to take upon himself the sins of the world. He
outlined a doomsday prophecy, which included a Third World War, and
described a final conflict culminating in a nuclear "Armageddon",
borrowing the term from the Book of Revelation 16:16. Humanity would
end, except for the elite few who joined Aum. The group gained
international notoriety in 20 March 1995, when it carried out the Sarin
gas attack on the Tokyo subway.
He has been sentenced to death, and is awaiting execution.
David Koresh
(1959-1993)
Born
Vernon Wayne Howell, was the leader of a Branch Davidian religious sect
in Waco, Texas, though never directly claiming to be Jesus himself,
proclaimed that he was the final prophet and "the Son of God, the Lamb"
in 1983. In 1993, a raid by the U.S. BATF, and the subsequent siege by
the FBI ended with Branch Davidian ranch burning to the ground.
Koresh, 54 adults and 21 children were found dead after the fire extinguished itself.
Hogen Fukunaga
Founded
Ho No Hana Sanpogyo often called the "foot reading cult," in 1987 after
an alleged spiritual event where he claimed to have realized he was the
reincarnation of Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha.
Marina Tsvigun
(1960-)
Maria
Devi Christos, is the leader of the Great White Brotherhood. 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.
Sergey Torop
(1961-)
A Russian who claims to be "reborn" as Vissarion, Jesus Christ returned, which makes him not "God" but the "word of God."He founded the Church of the Last Testament and the spiritual community Ecopolis Tiberkul in Southern Siberia in 1990.
Maurice Clemmons
(1972 - 2009)
An
American felon responsible for the 2009 murder of four police officers
in Washington state, repeatedly referred to himself as Jesus, and said
his wife was Eve.
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21st Century
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David Shayler
(1965-)
Former MI5 agent and whistleblower who, in the summer of 2007, proclaimed himself to be the Messiah.He
has released a series of videos on YouTube claiming to be Jesus,
although has not built up any noticeable following since his claims.
Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez
(1990-)
Who,
in November 2011, fired nine shots from a knock-off AK-47 at the White
House in Washington D.C., believing himself to be Jesus Christ sent to
kill U.S. President Barack Obama whom he believed to be the Anti-Christ.
Alan John Miller
(1962-)
More
commonly known as A.J. Miller, a former Jehovah's Witness elder member
and now leader of the Australia-based Divine Truth movement.
Miller
claims to be Jesus Christ after reincarnating in the 20th Century with
others to spread messages of what he calls the "Divine Truth".He
delivers these messages in seminars and various forms of media along
with his current partner Mary Suzanne Luck, who identifies herself as
the returned Mary Magdalene.
What to Say?
This is one of the funniest material i have ever read also one of the painful ones.
Funniest
in the sense how stupid a man can claim that He is Jesus Re-incarnated
and painful in the way how many are deceived and spoiled by their works
of evil.
People of God... Beware.. Read the Word of God... and be constantly watchful....
Jesus warned us that
"Many would come in His Name and claim them to be He..."