Yeshua | Y’shua | Yehoshua | Iesous | Jesus
Who was Jesus of Nazareth?
Is this the Byzantine
Jesus?

Is this the
American Jesus?

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he
asked his disciples,
"Who do people say the Son of Man is?"
They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others
say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets."
"But what about you?" he asked. "Who do
you say I am?"
Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the
Son of the living God." (Matthew
16)
As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the
disciples came to him privately. "Tell us," they said, "when
will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of
the age?" Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. For
many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many. (Matthew 24)
For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other
than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one
you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with
it easily enough. (2 Cor. 11)
Rethinks about Jesus and the Jesii:
Artists Conceptions of
Jesus - a collection of artist conceptions and some observations. [incomplete and rough draft]
What Manner of Man is This? [incomplete and rough draft]
Was Jesus Just Another Dying-Rising Archetype God
Myth? [idea]
The Different Jesii [idea]
What I Really Dig about Jesus [idea]
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really
foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a
great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one
thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus
said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the
level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil
of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of
God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you
can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call
him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his
being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend
to. ... Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend:
and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have
to accept the view that He was and is God.” (C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity)
http://jesusfactorfiction.com/
Books:
The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus - Strobel
The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ - Strobel
The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict - McDowell
Jesus was a Jew - Fructenbaum
Messianic Christology - Fructenbaum
