Claim. The same person — Christ at the Second Advent — is the central figure awaited by all the world’s major religious traditions: the Maitreya Buddha of Buddhism, the True Man of Chinese tradition, the Chongdoryong of Korean tradition, and the messianic figure awaited in other religions. Christianity does not exist for its own sake; its final mission is the fulfillment of all religions’ purposes.
Elaboration. Per 3.2. The Unification of All Other Religions through Returning Resurrection: “All religions… are gradually coalescing into one cultural sphere based on Christian ideals. Christianity does not exist for its own sake, but has as its final mission the fulfillment of the purposes of all the religions.”
The identification: “Christ at the Second Advent… is the person of the Maitreya Buddha who is to return according to the teachings of Buddhism, the True Man who is awaited in the Chinese religious tradition, and the Chongdoryong for whom many Koreans yearn. He is the central figure whose advent is expected in other religions as well.”
Mechanism: spirits of non-Christian believers undergo returning resurrection (see dp-non-christian-spirits-return-via-same-religion-counterparts) and guide earthly believers of their own religion toward the Second Advent figure. First-Advent precedent: “the three wise men from the East, who were Zoroastrians, came in search of Jesus” — non-Christian spirit-world guidance toward the Christ-figure is normal.
DP’s inclusivist-supersessionist posture: all traditions are honored as paths that aim correctly; all converge on the single returning Christ. Framing is fulfillment, not replacement. But the convergence is non-negotiable — one Christ, named differently across traditions.
Contested by religious pluralism (Hick, Knitter — no convergence required), exclusivism (no non-Christian guidance possible), and each tradition’s own assertion that its awaited figure is not the Christian Christ.
See also. dp-christianity-unified-via-paradise-spirits-returning-at-second-advent, dp-cultural-spheres-converge-toward-one-christian-sphere