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you are here: > Self > 12. The Messiah Syndrome
| 12.10 |
Signs of messiahs- great knowledge and wisdom
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| A universal sign of all legitimate Messiahs is that they are supposed to come with great and true wisdom. By default, messiahs are supposed to be great teachers and knowledge bringers. | ||
12.10.1 |
The quality of the message as a distinction between true and false messiahs |
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| For obvious reasons, it is extremely hard for many candidates who wish to claim themselves to be "the messiah" of a particular culture to time their life and their ministry around celestial events and climactic events. That being said, there has always been a history of opportunists who appear suddenly out of left field when such events do occur (such as the Hale-Bopp comet and the infamous Heaven's Gate cult who all committed suicide). | ||
| What is more common is for claimed Messiahs and their followers to use the quality and/or quantity of new and unique knowledge as a justification and "proof" of the authenticity of the credentials of the Messiah. | ||
| In recent years, this has been the method employed by the latest batch of people claiming to be the true Messiah of Judaism and Islam. | ||
| 12.10.2 | The difficulty in falsifying knowledge | |
| While the bringing of knowledge is considered a fundamental sign of the authenticity of a messiah, it is also extremely difficult to falsify in that external critics and educated scholars are more able today than ever before spot plagiarism, poor research and just plain rubbish. | ||
| While a faithful devotee of a person claiming to be a messiah is unlikely to have the objectivity of a forensic historian or scholar, no person claiming the position of messiah certainly over the past one thousand years has been able to hold onto the claim of knowledge without serious cracks in credibility. | ||
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