Hijacking Jesus: How Progressive Christians Are Remaking Him and Taking Over His Church

by Jason Jimenez

Progressives have fabricated a new Jesus so different from the real Savior that their faith can hardly be called Christianity.

Progressive Christian leaders have abandoned the resurrected Savior of historical Christianity, radically reinterpreting Him as a Jewish mystic or a man of God devoid of divine claims and miracles. In the postmodern era, "remaking Jesus" has become a deadly temptation.

The “modern Jesus” of progressives—supposedly friendlier and more accepting than the Savior we know from the Gospels—is gaining popularity and acceptance among self-identified Christians. But they don’t realize that progressive Christianity rejects the biblical revelation of Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh.

Hijacking Jesus addresses perennial questions about the nature of Christ and his teaching, testing the historical and theological accuracy of progressive Christians. Their “Jesus” is simply no match for the reliability of the four Gospels, which are the most credible historical sources for Jesus’s life, teachings, miracles, death, and resurrection. Christians can accept no substitute for the witness of the Gospels and the theological doctrines of the church that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior.

Genres: Nonfiction, Christianity, Faith

253 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 12, 2023

Reviews

[Cathryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a good introduction to Progressive Christianity. It presents several aspects of its beliefs and offers general answers to them from a historical viewpoint. I found the chapter on Penal Substitutionary Atonement most helpful. I will need to reread because it was only offered as an audiobook by my library. Some books…I just need to see the words.

[Nigel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’d only read this to hear how you could hijack Jesus….

My progress on the book activity says more of a book review!

As what I’ve understood you can only be save if Jesus allows it so reading that Jesus could be hijacked is….
It’s marketed to be unrational or not reality.


So I’m going to put it in my to reads to read the pessimism bias or optimism bias it holds for the progressive reader or the biblical reader or average reader or informed reader but only to see where there spotlight bias as a reader and bystander bias of the writer in me would be passively expressed.

As of anecdotally I think it’s impossible to hijack Jesus.

But for the self serving bias of looking into the rational or reality. I’m also looking to see the unrational and unreality in how it is marketed as hijacked.

Cause a title hijacking is reactionary and semantic in a narrative market.

I’m commenting to cause of a dozen fallacies that and this “cela ou ceca” in peddle words list many fallacies I find puissant asinine.

I think 🤔 it’s a good find on my friends list and it’s on my to read list this summer ends 🍂 I’m hoping I’ll check it out. Thanks for sharing. And check out my progress in the book activity beside the review details.

I’m only rating it so high cause of my review I got to write ✍️ thanks for letting me share eh.

Way to often did the author say “ what” is a progressive Jesus believer. Holding an insurmountable right over the readers head as a writer of what a biblically Jesus believer is.

That’s my only spoiler, which Winston Salem in my mind of biases. Is good 😊 for the unpleasantries of reading for the pure enjoyment of reading 📖 as a psychedelic experience of pleasure is rated the highest possible in ratings out sex psychedelic or drug psychedelics or entertainment psychedelics.

Reading for the purpose that propaganda is.

A true trait of propaganda is that propaganda does not usually tell a lie. A famous Godwin law.

And as fast as I read this book is.

As reading as slow as it takes for Faulkner law to get to his point.

Or in Gilbert law in no one will tell you what to do and how to do it perfectly but you must learn to do that

Or as anonymous law as if you put intelligence at forefront at all times, money 💰 and experience will always continue to roll in with other anonymous laws correlate the causations have utterly no bearing whatsoever Sort of like progressive or biblical responses

Or

Who was Fowler Why was he with Ausable How did Ausable make Fowler disillusioned and happy later?

Is a better google search than what was Fowler, why he was with Ausable, what did Ausable make Fowler disillusioned and happy later?

It matters what or how is
stated as asked

I’d like to see this fabricated out of Jordan Peterson mouth but it’s sadly a theology religious basis bias not a psychological religious basis bias.

That’s the big difference in books 📚 seeing Jordan Peterson balled on an even pedagogical Pendulum to even it in society is how in post secondary will measure itself or seeing Jimenez pedagogical idiocy pendulum to even it in society is how society will measure it self, a post modernism catastrophe.

[Lorinda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent, clear description and refutation of the heresy of progressive Christianity. Jimenez focuses on six aspects of Jesus. He systematically explains the various progressive views, quoting several sources, on the topic, then uses apologetics to show how these beliefs are unbiblical, citing Scripture, early church fathers, and various orthodox theologians.

Although the author uses excellent scholarship and explains words in the original languages, his writing style makes the information easy for a layperson to grasp.

[Larry White · Rating 4 out of 5]

Prowling Lions and False Teachers

Contemporary Christianity is locked in a struggle by two broad factions: “progressive” Christianity and traditional Christianity. Jason Jimenez, in his recent book “Hijacking Jesus” effectively paints a picture (while not using the labels as such) of a struggle between heretical non-Christianity and Biblical Christianity. The former in effect has elevated two sides of the so-called Wesleyan Quadrilateral, experience and “reason”, above the foundational element of Scripture and its historical affirmation in tradition, to the point where human intuitions and desires supplant the only proper basis for the Christian faith, the revealed word of God. In many cases, the departures are entirely unrecognizable as having any but the most strained Biblical conformity. Often, they use a kernel of truth without acknowledging the entire revelation or context. It’s the old warning that the devil prowls like a lion looking to devour people of faith (see 1 Peter 5:8) and the vast number of warnings in the New Testament against the certain emergence of false teachers.

While some of Jimenez’s approach can be a bit tedious (Chapter 1 is a catalogue of the history of heresy and false teaching with focus on modern progressive Christianity, but with little substance – oddly, he omits Richard Rohr, an archetype of the progressive phenomenon, but then uses him as an effective example repeatedly in the remainder of the book), the message is well expressed and well taken overall. Progressive Christian thinkers don’t seek only a feel-good version of Christianity, they seek a deconstructive form of an unrecognizable faith that dismisses or mythologizes the basic tenets of true, Biblical Christianity. Jimenez exposes their falsehoods and methods. The church of Christ will stand against the gates of Hell, and it is work like “Hijacking Jesus” that is part of that defense, a defense sure to prevail.

[Julie Mabus · Rating 4 out of 5]

This a good summary of the basic ideas of progressive Christianity and how it differs from biblical Christianity.

[Deborah · Rating 5 out of 5]

An overview of the current state of progressive Christianity and how clearly it’s not Biblical Christianity.