Maybe that is why faith is so fascinating to me. I've never been able on willpower alone to shut off that switch. I've always been a slave of science, logic, reason, and things I can touch and feel.
So I've had an urge to try to grapple with this a bit. I grew up in a rather godless home, so faith has always been a bit of a mystery to me - and yet one can open any newspaper on any given day and see religion's influence and standing in society. I guess the project has been growing in me over the last decade, a wish to explore faith and religion itself. What are the implications for humanity if this particular Messiah is in fact the Chosen One? I've tried to take each Messiah's claims as seriously as possible and tried to see what the world looks like from that perspective. So according to the people and communities I've photographed, this 2000-year-long wait is finally over, and Jesus is again walking among us. Actually, when you read Paul's writings, it's clear that he expected Jesus to return in his own lifetime. Paul wrote his letters in the first century. Here, Bendiksen shares photos from the project, as well as his thoughts on religion, the second coming of Christ, and his personal expectations in meeting the "Messiah."Ĭhristians have been waiting for Jesus's return to earth to bring the end times and God's Kingdom ever since St.
His new book, The Last Testament, chronicles his journey. Since 2014, Bendiksen has been following seven self-proclaimed Messiahs from around the world, each truly believing that they are the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Jonas Bendiksen is a Norwegian photographer based in Oslo whose work examines the fringes of culture to capture a wider perspective of the world we live in.
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