{"id":4568,"date":"2024-03-30T23:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T04:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2024-03-30T23:03:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T04:03:34","slug":"he-is-risen-so-not-reincarnated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/he-is-risen-so-not-reincarnated\/","title":{"rendered":"He is risen&#8230; so not reincarnated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T3hMWqazP5Y\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jesus is alive, and he still has a real, flesh and blood body<\/strong>. He has had that body continuously &#8211; but for a break of less than three days &#8211; \u00a0for over 2000 years. Because of that, he has not switched bodies, <strong>not reincarnated<\/strong>, not been reborn as some present day dude. Jesus is still driving the original model, with some upgrades, of course, such as immortality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is important to know, because of the <strong>proliferation of fake Jesuses<\/strong> in recent times, like <a title=\"A.J. Miller fake Jesus\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/d0-ustkfE9w?si=wyfmfW5cocmCvvBz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A.J. Miller<\/a> in Australia,\u00a0<a title=\"fake Jesus in Russia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W2Cv5hZfOmk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop\u00a0<\/a>in Russia, <a title=\"Jose Miranda fake Jesus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tfgnNHJ2zQc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jose Miranda<\/a> in America, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VVQjhLrhKfQ\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\u00c1lvaro Theiss (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">\u00c1lvaro Theiss<\/a> in Brazil,\u00a0and other <a title=\"other fake jesuses\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_people_who_have_claimed_to_be_Jesus#21st_century\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assorted crazies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Acid test: Does this claimant have a scar<\/strong> in his side, where they stuck the spear? Or scars in his feet and hands (or wrists) where the Romans put spikes through him? Some small ones around the head, where they jammed a crown of thorns into him? Whip scars on his back? Does he look like he could be a Palestinian Jew?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No to <em>any<\/em> of these? Walk away. It ain&#8217;t Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is that guy claiming he&#8217;s Jesus? He may <strong>really believe<\/strong> it; he could be mentally ill or possessed. But the obvious reason is that it gets him attention, so that he can get what he wants out of his fellow human beings. He&#8217;s a bloodsucker. All cult leaders live and die for three things: <strong>power, sex, and money<\/strong>. Falsely claiming to be the most famous, influential, and important man who has ever lived is a way of grabbing at all of those. Of course, he&#8217;ll give you some things you want too: community, purpose, a basket full of answers. He&#8217;s got to have people; no people, no blood. But <em>his<\/em> needs come first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>real Jesus<\/strong> sought neither power, nor sex, nor money. He set an example of true, loving, humble, service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xx9KuZU1EjY\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus is way, way <strong>more interesting, <\/strong>to put it mildly, than any of the imposters. And when he <em>really <\/em>does come back (which will <em>not <\/em>be via reincarnation), the imposters will have a <em>lot<\/em> of &#8216;splaining to do. When he comes back, he will no longer be washing feet; that&#8217;s our job. You see, he&#8217;s been <a title=\"Every knee... even yours\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Philippians%202:8-11&amp;version=GNT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promoted<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a title=\"Easter Song by Keith Green\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3StQfGXwKQ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Easter!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(That&#8217;s the&nbsp;<a title=\"Gospel of John\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Gospel-John-Henry-Cusick\/dp\/B0006Q93ZG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all-time best Jesus movie<\/a>, by the way.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to tell the real Jesus from the fake ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,15,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-christology","category-heresy-orthodoxy","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4568"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44656,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions\/44656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}