Does Mikhail Gorbachev believe he is the Second Coming of Jesus Christ?

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Does Mikhail Gorbachev believe he is the Second Coming of Jesus Christ?

Foreign Affairs
Source: SOT
Published: October 13th, 1997 Author: J. Adams
Posted on 11/29/01 8:53 PM Pacific by Spirit Of Truth

SOME INTRIGUING GORBY QUOTES:

(Note that Gorbachev supposedly "resigned" on Christmas Day of 1991.)

On Friday, October 25, 1996 ABC television commentator Charles Gibson asked Mikhail Gorbachev the following question during an interview:

"It is an interesting paradox to so many Americans- you are so honored throughout the world for fundamental changes, but, I don't have to recite the election results to you, in the last election you got a very small, tiny percent of the vote. Why is Gorbachev seen so differently outside Russia and inside Russia?"

This was Gorbachev's response:

"Well, let's recall another example. Jesus Christ was pelted with stones. He was blamed and condemned, and then he was put with a bandit and they were taken for execution. And when it was said that one of them could be spared, the people said the bandit should be spared and Christ was crucified."

Here are some more recent quotes from Mr. Gorbachev...

"Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between peoples."

(from Gorbachev's new book- 'Memoirs')

"The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx."

(USA Today, October 28th, 1996)

"Jesus Christ, he was also a reformer. He was pelted with stones and insulted."

(New York Times, October 25th, 1996)

The excerpt below is from Reuters World Service, December 8, 1996, Sunday, BC cycle - HEADLINE: FEATURE - "Vital Gorbachev refuses to let go of politics"

(Gorbachev) is frank, though hardly contrite, about the failures of judgement that led him to promote to senior positions the very men who would plot to overthrow him in 1991.

"How do you explain Judas -- right there next to Jesus Christ?" he asks. "How do you explain that? And Christ did not recognise him for what he was. You could say that's a metaphor."

"The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan
will be with all power and with pretended signs and
wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who
are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and
so be saved. Therefore God sends upon them a strong
delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all
may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had
pleasure in unrighteousness."

(From The Second Letter of Paul
To The Thessalonians, Ch.2; vs.9-12)

"But when the Helper comes,
whom I shall send to you from the Father,
the Spirit of Truth who proceeds from the Father,
He will testify of Me.
And when He has come,
He will convict the world of sin,
And of righteousness,
And of judgment:

Of sin, because they do not believe in Me;

Of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more;

Of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged."

(from John, Chps. 15-16)

1 posted on 11/29/01 8:53 PM Pacific by Spirit Of Truth
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To: Spirit Of Truth

And this is relevant to the world in 2001 exactly how?

2 posted on 11/29/01 8:56 PM Pacific by sinkspur
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To: Spirit Of Truth

The Russians are glad they washed their hands of this guy.

3 posted on 11/29/01 8:57 PM Pacific by mrsmith
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To: Spirit Of Truth

An Article from 1997 ????? Is this a slow news week?

4 posted on 11/29/01 9:00 PM Pacific by arly
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To: sinkspur

Stay tuned....I'm working up to that part...

5 posted on 11/29/01 9:00 PM Pacific by Spirit Of Truth
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To: mrsmith

Their hands are still dirty...

6 posted on 11/29/01 9:01 PM Pacific by Spirit Of Truth
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To: Spirit Of Truth

I think it's probably just a misguided attempt for him to "relate" to Westerners like us. Remember, though we Christians in this country know what change has been wrought, the rest of the world still views us as a predominantly Christian nation.

7 posted on 11/29/01 9:01 PM Pacific by MississippiMan
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To: Spirit Of Truth

But you got the joke, right?

"...washed their hands of this guy"

8 posted on 11/29/01 9:07 PM Pacific by mrsmith
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To: Spirit Of Truth

No more so than the Beatles. Don't you have anything better to do?

9 posted on 11/29/01 9:19 PM Pacific by gcruse
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To: Spirit Of Truth

He did at one point.

Now he realizes he's just another avatar of Boris Badenov.

10 posted on 11/29/01 9:37 PM Pacific by x
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To: sinkspur

I think Gorby may be pushing to be a literal world leader

11 posted on 11/29/01 9:55 PM Pacific by spycatcher
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To: Spirit Of Truth

gorbachov has stated he is a communist and will always be a communist. I find it obscene that he would make a connection to Christ. BTW, you do know gorby is a "leader" in the international environmental movement? Does that bother anyone else?

12 posted on 11/29/01 11:08 PM Pacific by poet
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