# Christians/Jews: Will everybody recognize Christ/The Messiah when He returns?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 4, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-jews-will-everybody-recognize-christ-the-messiah-when-he-returns/334042 "2005-12-04T16:52:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-jews-will-everybody-recognize-christ-the-messiah-when-he-returns/334042/21 "2005-12-05T03:06:51Z")

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> [@Scott Plaid](#):
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> Though come to think of it, Sure sounds like a female apostle to me.

The accusative in the Greek basically means it’s impossible to determine whether this is a blike (Junias) or a bird (Junia).

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**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-jews-will-everybody-recognize-christ-the-messiah-when-he-returns/334042/22 "2005-12-05T10:17:41Z")

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There is literally no way that anything could convince me of the existence of the supernatural: I would sooner consider any Messianic weirdness as being _Matrix_-esque advanced sensory input technology on behalf of someone who, for some reason, really wanted to yank my chain.

_Yeah yeah, nice flashy lights and relived episodes from my past life. Now piss of back to your spaceship._

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-jews-will-everybody-recognize-christ-the-messiah-when-he-returns/334042/23 "2005-12-05T15:23:53Z")

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I’ll be expecting a news update from **mswas** by five pm GMT on Dec 22 2012. :dubious:

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**Author:** ![Tevildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Tevildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tevildo)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-jews-will-everybody-recognize-christ-the-messiah-when-he-returns/334042/24 "2005-12-05T16:01:15Z")

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> [@Malacandra](#):
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> I’ll be expecting a news update from **mswas** by five pm GMT on Dec 22 2012. :dubious:

There _is_ some uncertainty in tying the Mayan calendar down to ours precisely; it might be a day or two out. Let’s give him until the 24th, although I hope that we won’t both have to endure both Christmas _and_ the End of the World - that would be far too great a punishment even for the worst of sinners. 🙂

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