The Real Evidence For Jesus And Christianity Is In How Jesus And The Christianity Based On Him Manifest Themselves In The Lives Of Practicing Christians.
For A Christian, Jesus Is The Unique And Only Way That God Has Fully Revealed Himself. For A Jew This Cannot Be.
In Speaking Of Jesus, I Must Speak About Christianity Because I Do Not Think It Possible Or Profitable To Divide The Two.
We Can Be Reluctant To Recognize How Much Of Our Culture Was Literary, Particularly Now That So Many Of The Institutional Purveyors Of Literature Happily Have Joined In Proclaiming Its Death. A Substantial Number Of Americans Who Believe They Worship God Actually Worship Three Major Literary Characters: The Yahweh Of The J Writer (earliest Author Of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers), The Jesus Of The Gospel Of Mark, And Allah Of The Koran.
Hamlet, Kierkegaard, Kafka Are Ironists In The Wake Of Jesus. All Western Irony Is A Repetition Of Jesus' Enigmas/riddles, In Amalgam With The Ironies Of Socrates.
As A Servant Leader The Way You Serve The Vision Is By Developing People So That They Can Work On That Vision Even When You're Not Around. The Ultimate Sin Of An Effective Servant Leader Is What Happens When You Are Not There. That Was The Power Of Jesus' Leadership-the Leaders He Trained Went On To Change The World When He Was No Longer With Them In Bodily Form.
Thinking As I Do That The Creator Of This World Is A Very Cruel Being, And Being A Worshipper Of Christ, I Cannot Help Saying: ''the Son, O How Unlike The Father!'' First God Almighty Comes With A Thump On The Head. Then Jesus Christ Comes With A Balm To Heal It.
God Keep Me From The Divinity Of Yes And Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, From Supposing Up And Down To Be The Same Thing As Allexperimentalists Must Suppose.