Did Christ appear to other nations? (Jesus, Moses, Earth, Messiah)

[fromthe heart]

Originally Posted by mormonman

He didn't come to all of those people in a 3 day period. After he was resurrected He went to the Apostles, then He went to His "other sheep". He came once? Christ has been on the Earth many more times than one. For example he came to Saul on the way to Damascus and to John on the Island of Patmos.

In body or spirit? What is the time frame of these visits?

[mormonman]

Originally Posted by Solon

I believe we have already proved that beyond any reasonable doubt. Not that that has made us many friends !

Cheers

S

If you have "proved" our falsehood w/o a doubt, then why is the LDS Church the fastest growing religion in the WORLD?

[mormonman]

Originally Posted by fromthe heart

In body or spirit? What is the time frame of these visits?

It was after He was resurrected, so He was in physical body form. He came to Saul in the Book of Acts and Paul in for the Book of Revelation, so it was after cricifiction and resurrection. After He went to the Apostles for forty days then he went to the other Jewish nations to bring them His Gospel.

[mormonman]

Well I have Chemistry homework to do. I might be back later.

[painted wolf]

well if he did my ancestors don't remember it.

I once had someone try to convince me that "the white buffalo" was Jesus... there is just one problem with this. White Buffalo Calf Woman is not a man, Jewish or otherwise... unless Jesus pulled a real quick one on everyone.

wa:do

[jonny]

Originally Posted by mormonman

If you have "proved" our falsehood w/o a doubt, then why is the LDS Church the fastest growing religion in the WORLD?

That statment isn't true. It may have been for a time, but it is no longer the case.

[Popeyesays]

Originally Posted by mormonman

If you have "proved" our falsehood w/o a doubt, then why is the LDS Church the fastest growing religion in the WORLD?

Those are slippery statistics, and no two sets of statistics are likely to agree with each other.

http://www.adherents.com/rel_USA.html

Shows that the Baha`i Faith has grown more than 200% in the U.S. since 1990, and the growth of the LDS (in all its splinters) has increased only 8% since 1990. This is in the U.S. of course.
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http://www.adherents.com/adh_rb.html

Most Ubiquitous Religious Bodies: The religious bodies on this list which are most likely to have a church, mosque, or congregation near you (in most countries in the world) are:

• Catholic Church
• Sunni Islam
• Baha'i Faith
• Jehovah's Witnesses
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Seventh-day Adventists

Regarding ubiquity: There are many large religious groups which are not especially ubiquitous, although they may seem widespread. This is the case with groups whose membership comes primarily from one country or a limited region, yet is also organized in a large number of countries. The group may only have a small or token presence in most of the countries in which it is organized, or it is only organized in the major cities of the foreign countries, often primarily among expatriates. Groups which are "widespread but not ubiquitous" like this include Sikhs, Eastern Orthodox, Soka Gakkai, Ahmadiyya, International Church of Christ, Church of Scientology, Church of the Nazarene, and the Churches of Christ. Protestant Christianity taken as a whole is, of course, quite ubiquitous, but most individual Protestant religious bodies do not currently have a sense of doctrinal exclusivity on the denominational level sufficient to attempt establishing a presence worldwide.
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Top 10 Largest Highly International Religious Bodies

These are religious bodies in which at least 30% of their world membership live outside the "core country" (country with the largest number of members).

Religious BodyNumber of AdherentsCatholic Church1,100,000,000Sunni Islam875,000,000Eastern Orthodox Church225,000,000Anglican Communion*76,000,000Assemblies of God50,000,000Seventh-day Adventists16,811,519Jehovah's Witnesses15,597,746Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints12,275,822New Apostolic Church10,260,000Ahmadiyya10,000,000Bahai World Faith6,000,000
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Classical World Religions Ranked by Internal Religious Similarity:
Most Unified to Most Diverse

1. Baha'i
2. Zoroastrianism
3. Sikhism
4. Islam
5. Jainism
6. Judaism
7. Taoism
8. Shinto
9. Christianity
10. Buddhism
11. Hinduism

No "value judgement" is implied by this list. There are adjectives with both positive and negative connotations which describe both ends of this spectrum. From an academic, comparative religions viewpoint, there is no basis for "prescribing" whether it is better for a religion to be highly unified, cohesive, monolithic, and lacking in internal religious diversity, or whether it is better to be fragmented, schismatic, diverse, multifaceted and abounding in variations on the same theme.
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Anyway, Adherents.com is an interesting site and a worthwhile starting place for discussing the statistics of religion. One will quickly discover that there are (in the words of some wise man or other) there are "lies", "damned lies", and "statistics".

This isn't always true but every grain of salt used with believing something should be dipped in the old adage first.

Regards,
Scott

[benjosh]

Originally Posted by mormonman

Why is it so hard for other Christian denominations to accept that Chirst went to more than one nation of Jews to establish the Gospel?

Why is it so hard for some to believe Jesus/Messiah went to more than one nation?

Everybody happens to be in their own version of the one and only true church. So religious groups compete for who's got the real Jesus. And the real Jesus is the one who doesn't mess with their religious blind spots. So, they come and argue on the forum.

But, it doesn't have to be that way.

[jeffrey]

The Bible stops at John, I believe his entries where the last. It is quite possible that Christ has appeared to others since then... and maybe still does. But who would believe someone that said they saw and talked to Christ ?

[Bangbang]

Originally Posted by Orichalcum

Probably so, but they were on the toilet or asleep at the time.

More likely an outhouse.......I had a great post written but decided to not hit the key for fear of problems so I settled for this.........
Well if he came to America they got his message all messed up and the white man would have burned him at the stake.