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Christopher Gorton
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Print Edition of "The Problem with Christ."
It has been a long time coming, but the print edition of the Problem with Christ is finally available. Here is the link:
https://www.createspace.com/4300689
The Kindle version is available at:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CW512ZS
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https://www.createspace.com/4300689
The Kindle version is available at:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CW512ZS
I am told the print edition will also be available on Amazon within a week. I am not sure why, but even though the price will be the same on Amazon, I earn a couple of dollars Read more of this blog post »
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“It is no great hermeneutic feat to recognize that Rome crucified Jesus because of His claim to be king. The charge was posted over His head, after all. What is often overlooked, however, is that it is precisely because of their allegiance to that king—Jesus—that Rome persecuted His followers.
That the God of the Jews should father a son with magical powers was no more offensive to the Romans than the idea that Zeus should father Hercules. But what was intolerable was the fact that Jesus’ followers did not stop with recognizing Him as divine; they had the audacity to claim He was their actual sovereign.
In short, while the Jews preserved their religion by shouting, “We have no king but Caesar,” the early Christians sealed their fate by unabashedly declaring, “We have no king but Jesus!”
― The Problem With Christ: Why we don't understand Jesus, His enemies, or the early Church
That the God of the Jews should father a son with magical powers was no more offensive to the Romans than the idea that Zeus should father Hercules. But what was intolerable was the fact that Jesus’ followers did not stop with recognizing Him as divine; they had the audacity to claim He was their actual sovereign.
In short, while the Jews preserved their religion by shouting, “We have no king but Caesar,” the early Christians sealed their fate by unabashedly declaring, “We have no king but Jesus!”
― The Problem With Christ: Why we don't understand Jesus, His enemies, or the early Church
“It is no great hermeneutic feat to recognize that Rome crucified Jesus because of His claim to be king. The charge was posted over His head, after all. What is often overlooked, however, is that it is precisely because of their allegiance to that king—Jesus—that Rome persecuted His followers.
That the God of the Jews should father a son with magical powers was no more offensive to the Romans than the idea that Zeus should father Hercules. But what was intolerable was the fact that Jesus’ followers did not stop with recognizing Him as divine; they had the audacity to claim He was their actual sovereign.
In short, while the Jews preserved their religion by shouting, “We have no king but Caesar,” the early Christians sealed their fate by unabashedly declaring, “We have no king but Jesus!”
― The Problem With Christ: Why we don't understand Jesus, His enemies, or the early Church
That the God of the Jews should father a son with magical powers was no more offensive to the Romans than the idea that Zeus should father Hercules. But what was intolerable was the fact that Jesus’ followers did not stop with recognizing Him as divine; they had the audacity to claim He was their actual sovereign.
In short, while the Jews preserved their religion by shouting, “We have no king but Caesar,” the early Christians sealed their fate by unabashedly declaring, “We have no king but Jesus!”
― The Problem With Christ: Why we don't understand Jesus, His enemies, or the early Church
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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