Christianity in Crisis (ePub)

Representing a revolutionary approach to the study of Jesus, the history that produced him & his significance to America & Americans today, this work argues that the Jesus of Christianity IS NOT THE REAL Jesus AT ALL. When understood contextually, Jesus is revealed as offering a timeless message, representing an issue & its resolution that has plagued humanity as a whole, from the individual to all humanity. What is discovered is that Jesus' message actually was NOT A RELIGIOUS MESSAGE, BUT OFFERED IN A RELIGIOUSLY ORIENTED ENVIRONMENT. Remove the religion, Jesus becomes universally & globally significant. Addressing the one area of human prolonged failure, relationships, Jesus offers the ONLY solution that both history dictates we need, arguing for a degree of maturity & commitment to integration not yet a true human standard, but one desperately needed, as the news gives witness to daily. Today, Jewish history, interpreted as a religious narrative or one revealing a sociologically significant evolution, BOTH offer a social value in Jesus & the particular message he had to offer... in regards to the one area separating humanity from God & EACH OTHER. The values chosen to be employed in interpersonal relationships. Hence, an ATHEIST DEFENDS THAT HISTORY, WHETHER RELIGIOUSLY INTERPRETED OR AS A SOCIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA, AS IMPORTANT TO ALL HUMANITY, FROM ATHEIST TO HINDU, TO MUSLIM, TO JEW, TO CHRISTIAN, TO AGNOSTIC, OR ANY OTHER HUMAN DEFINING SOCIAL SYSTEM. Further, the analysis is then applied to America & 4 words that demanded the integration of the REAL Jesus into human history... 'ALL... ARE CREATED EQUAL'. Contextually we discover that America is placed in the very same quality of social position as Israel was at the time of Jesus... & that when understood for the TRUE message Jesus had to bear, America DEMANDED the values to guide the human heart & therefore behavior that Jesus offered the Jews. But America is failing... as we discover.