An Atheist for Jesus A Personal Journey of Discovery |
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| Author:
| Schei, Kenneth A. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-926491-01-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1996 |
| Publisher: | Synthesis
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| Book Format: | Loose-leaf |
| List Price: | USD $17.95 |
Book Description:
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(?Potentially very important.' Dr. Carl Sagan)This book traces my journey from being an atheist (who did not believe that there was anything of real value to be found in Christianity), to my becoming the founder of ?Atheists for Jesus.' It examines the following:Why there are such great differences between people who call themselves ?Christians.'Why the New Testament presents two divergent views of Jesus. (Praising peacemakers at one point, but saying that He himself came not to bring...
More Description(?Potentially very important.' Dr. Carl Sagan)This book traces my journey from being an atheist (who did not believe that there was anything of real value to be found in Christianity), to my becoming the founder of ?Atheists for Jesus.' It examines the following:Why there are such great differences between people who call themselves ?Christians.'Why the New Testament presents two divergent views of Jesus. (Praising peacemakers at one point, but saying that He himself came not to bring peace, but a sword.)How these differences began in the earliest days of the Jesus Movement, where we find two completely different Gospels, and two completely different Jesus? being taught by two completely different groups (before the writing of the Canonical Gospels).How these two versions were inappropriately melded together in the New Testament. (Carl Sagan called the New Testament ?an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts'the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul.' [Letter from Dr. Sagan to this author.])Why the story of the ?Good Samaritan? is one of the most important'yet most misunderstood'messages from Jesus.How the emphasis of Christian thought changed from the Mount to the Cross, from the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth to the death and supposed resurrection of Jesus the Christ.How the ?Jefferson Bible?(or my version, ?The New Ebionite Bible?) more accurately portrays the life and teachings of Jesus, and should replace the current Bible (Old and New Testaments).And why Liberal Christians'rather than Conservative Christians'are the True Fundamentalists.