Core tenet of Christianity

Christ will come again.

The creed's unfinished clause: history has a direction and a judge, and the same figure who came in weakness returns in glory. Every liturgy leans toward it — come, Lord.

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Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held

The second coming sits in the creed and in the calendar (Advent is about both arrivals), and Christians differ enormously on the details while agreeing on the direction. The main divide is whether the promised reign is future and cataclysmic, present and gradual, or already inaugurated and awaiting completion — and the New Testament supplies material for each. What the doctrine functionally does is deny that history is a circle or an accident: it has an end, and the end is a person rather than a state of affairs.

From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited

Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
Revelation 22:20
The Bible's second-to-last verse — the whole doctrine as a two-word prayer.

The same ground, other faiths

claims that share this one's ideas

Christ's return is near and literal. Seventh-day Adventism Go deeper →

God's Kingdom is a real government. Jehovah's Witnesses Go deeper →

The boy who waited three days at Death's door. Hinduism · story Read it in full →

M Maitreya — the one to come. Buddhism · figure Meet them →

The messianic age is still ahead. Judaism Go deeper →

Every soul stands before God on the Last Day. Islam Go deeper →

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