Second Coming
The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is primarily a Christian concept regarding a future return of Jesus to Earth after his "first coming" and death about two thousand years ago. The belief is based on interpretaions of prophecies found in the gospels and is part of most Christian doctrines.   Views  about  the
nature of Jesus' Second Coming vary among Christian denominations and among individ-ual Christians

    Most English versions of the Nicene Creed include the following statements: "...he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. ... We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come."

     However: Parousia (Greek: παρουσία) is an ancient Greek word meaning  a presence or official visit. Our English word appear is derived from this word. A large portion of the Christian world (the Gnostics) did not believe that the material world was real, but was the creation of an evil force to blind us from awareness of the Spirit of God. Therefore the idea of a "physical" coming of Christ was alien to them.   When they used the term 'parousia" they were referring to the experience of enjoying the full  spiritual "presence" of the Christ.  They believed this experience,  which was

      
thought of as bring similar to experiencing the Gnosis, was a transforming event.
      The arguments for this view are :
         1: If Jesus ascended to a physical heaven, where is heaven located? We have never seen it with our many telescopes.
         2: Except for the Mormons, Christians teach that God is spiritual being and that Christ is one with him and is in his likeness, therefor Jesus would not have assumed a physical body.
         3: Why would a spiritual being have any interest in or use for a corrupt and limited physical world?
         4: If the physical world is more desireable than the world of Spirit, why does God not dwell in it?
       Though it is counter to traditional Christian doctrine, reason (and the Gnostics) informs us that, just as his resurrection was Spiritual, so his Parousia is also spiritual.  Some suggest that the Parousia (experiencing the true presence of Christ) may have been occuring to true believers ever since the resurrection.