While most Christians spend their lives awaiting the return of their Lord and Savior, there are those who believe he has already returned--because they are him. I'm fairly sure there are at least three people at any given time who believe themselves to be Jesus Christ himself. Prophets and even antichrists seem to pop up a good deal too. There appears to be a profound psychological need in some people to believe themselves to be more than just your average human being.

So what happens when you round up a bunch of alleged Jesuses and put them in a room together? One Dr. Milton Rokeach decided to study just that back in 1959. He received a research grant to carry out an experiment in which three men who all believed they were Jesus would live together for two years. The men were all clinically psychotic patients institutionalized at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan. They were aged 70, 58, and 39 at the time and they were all absolutely convinced that they were the reincarnation of the one and only Jesus Christ.