They would call him woke if he actually returned
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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And that would be a positive quality, right alongside social justice warrior.
They think it's a grave insult but those without empathy cannot fathom the concept of caring about others
I think both left and right would hate him if he returned
Way more than a billion, probably
There are more people alive today than have ever lived so it's probably closer than you think, especially when they have to also be Christians
This got me intrigued so I looked it up a bit. Population reference bureau estimates there have been 117 billion humans ever. a rough estimate would place 80-85 billion of them from 0-2025 (when Abrahamic religions came about) thanks to explosive population growth
Granted this is all reallllly rough estimates but I still say it’s many more than a billion at this point. However as you said selecting for Christians is a big factor.
Over the years Christianity evolved from a niche to the largest religion in the world (though Islam is poised to overtake it)
100: ~7 million (about 1% of world population) 500: ~30 million (10%) 1000: ~50 million (10-12%) 1500: ~100 million (15-20%) 1900: ~560 million (35%) 2000: ~2 billion (33%) 2025: ~2.4 billion (31%)
So historically we can estimate the total number Christians who have died is about 23 billion based on 80-85 billion total born and roughly 25-30% historically, giving us roughly 25 billion born (2 billion remain alive as seen above).
That said this is based on wild estimates and is obviously not accurate in any meaningful way. I’m just bored and I have to watch my sick dog so I’m giving myself math homework
'For I tell you, there are those living today that will see the second coming of the lord'.
Been going on for 2000+ years now.
Imagine if he had been reborn every generation, but kept getting killed because Christians called him a heretic.
It's a bummer that religion is so good at programming people that they just kind of ignore everything contrary to their worldview.
Once that's their habit, it becomes easy to also ignore things more urgent and real than religion.
Wow, didn’t know he came back and killed so many people
Well based on the Christian views, all those that believe well be resurrected. So yes it will be a lifetime.
Kind of confuses me cause like aren't they in heaven now and now got pushed back to material plane? Or were they in stasis?
Imagine being dragged away from literal heaven and being forced to come back to Earth as it is now (or how it will be in the future.)
I don't know about y'all, but that doesn't sound like something I'd look forward to.
Well I guess it's closer to norse mythology where they are in heaven to prepping except it's for earth colonization. I dk.
Kind of confuses me cause like aren't they in heaven now and now got pushed back to material plane? Or were they in stasis?
The new testament is a bit confused on this - unsurprisingly, given it's composed of several author's beliefs.
But the view that makes the most 'sense' (if one wants to imagine it's just lore for a minute), is that everyone who dies enters an unconscious 'rest' (or 'stasis' as you say). And one day ALL will be raised for the last judgement. After which some are condemned to hell, and some to everlasting life on earth which has been transformed back to be like Eden.
There are passages that all directly address this.
The counter view (of which there is less support) is that upon dying believers are transported - awake - to somewhere called 'paradise' or 'Abraham's bossom'. So yes, they would be 'yanked back' from there. But as far as I can see, these parts of the Bible do seem to be more deliberately figurative. But who knows.
Only a billion?