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)

 

 Free stuff:

      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