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Thoughts On a “Second Coming”

By Henry Schulte

Oct 08, 2025
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Had a young and simple man going by the name of Jesus not been publicly crucified but had died of natural causes, would the world have remembered him? Would history have paid as much attention? Would the church have gone on to call him Son of God?

How would the story be different?

Had John F. Kennedy not been slain, would the memory of his presidency have…

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