The Real Christ

Contents

The Real Christ

 

 

 

 

 

Foreword

Introduction

Part 1 | Some Bible Basics
 See "Bible Basics"

Part 2 | The Real Christ
 2-1 Images of Jesus
2-2 Abba, Father
2-3 The Self-Proclamation of Jesus
2-4 Jesus a Palestinian Jew
2-5 Jesus and people
2-6 The Words of Jesus
2-7 The Poverty of Jesus
2-8 Finding Meaning in Everyday Experience
2-9 Jesus the Intellectual
2-10 The Naturalness of Jesus
2-11 Perceiving Others' Needs
2-12 Jesus the Radical
2-13 Radical Demands of Jesus
2-14 The Radical Language of Jesus
2-15 The Radical Authority of Jesus
2-16 The Radical Acceptance of Jesus
2-17 Jesus: A Man Misunderstood
2-18 The Real Cross: Today is Friday
2-19 The Same Yesterday and Today
2-20 The Twenty-first Century Jesus
2-21 The Importance of the Humanity of Christ
2-22 The Divine Side of Jesus
2-23 Christ-Centredness
2-24 The Spirit of Jesus

Part 3 | The Real and The Unreal
A self-revelation of Jesus in the Parables
 3-1 Elements of Unreality
3-2 End Stress
3-3 The Sower Parable
3-4 The 11th Hour Worker
3-5 The Two Carpenters
3-6 The Fanatic Shepherd
3-7 Parables of Israel
3-8 Parables of The Call of The Gospel
3-9 The Parables of Judgment
3-10 Divine Delegation
3-11 Unanswered Questions in The Parables
3-12 The Parable of The Prodigal (1)
3-13 The Parable of The Prodigal (2)
3-14 The Parable of The Prodigal (3)
3-15 The Good Samaritan
3-16 The Jesus Who Understands Weakness
3-17 The Sensitivity of Jesus
3-18 The Grace of Jesus
3-19 The Demanding Lord
3-20 Parables About The Cross
3-21 Parables of The Kingdom

Part 4 | How The Real Christ Was Lost
 4-1 Why The Trinity Was Accepted
4-2 Genuine Intellectual Failure?
4-3 The Psychological Attraction of a Non-Human Jesus
4-4 Jewish Influence on The Trinity
4-5 Dirty Politics and The Doctrine of The Trinity
4-6 The Trinity: A Desire For Acceptance
4-7 How The Real Christ Was Lost

Appendix 1 | Some Wrested Scriptures
 Introduction
2-1 "In the beginning was the word"
2-2 "The word was with God"
2-3 "The word was made flesh"
2-4 "The word was God"
2-5 "All things were made by him"
2-6 How Was The Logos/Word Made Flesh?
3 Jesus' Raising Up Of Himself (John 2:19-21)
4 "God is a spirit" (John 4:24) "Grieve not the spirit" (Ephesians 4:30)
5 "I came down from Heaven" (John 6:33,38)
6 "Before Abraham was, I am" (John 8:58)
7 "The glory I had with you before the world was" (John 17:5)
8 The rock that followed them (1 Corinthians 10)
9 "Being in the form of God" (Philippians 2)
10 By Jesus Were All Things Created (Colossians 1:15-18)
10a "Christ ... in whom dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily" (Colossians 2:9)
11 "The Son ... by whom (God) made the worlds" (Hebrew 1:2)
12 Who was Melchizedek?
13 Lord and Saviour ... God and Saviour (Titus 2:13; 2 Peter 1:1,11)