Echoes from Nag Hammadi saying to all three Religions
I am not the God you think you know

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Holy War
The Blood of Abraham
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- by David Anderson

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 Additionally, this book will answer the following questions:

- What was so different about the Jesus discovered at Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945?

- Why has Christianity had such difficulty reconciling that message with its doctrinal own? 

- Was Jesus in his youth influenced by Hellenistic thought?

- Is this the reason he was rejected by 1st century Judaism?

- Why is he being rejected by Judaism today?

- What is the one great flaw in Islam?    

- On a rapidly changing planet, is there a future for the three religions of Abraham in their present form?

Contents

An Open Letter: To those of the Christian faith

Foreword

I The God of Jesus Christ

II The One True God

III The Origin of Enmity The Story of Jacob and Esau

IV Discovering Another Jesus

1. A World Ceaselessly Seeking GOD

2. My Soul

3.A Peace That Passes All Understanding

4.Entering Heaven/Entering into the Presence of GOD

V Was Jesus of Nazareth the Messiah? Will He Come Again?

VI The Common Denominator On which Christians Must Judge Themselves: What is happening in the Upper Room?

5. The Enlightenment of the Upper Room

6. The Temptations that Keep us Away From the Upper Room

VII The Free Will to Make Christian Choices

7. Opening the Barriers of our Self-imposed Limitations

8. Be Careful What You Wish For

VIII From Each According to His or Her Ability

9. Reaping Where He Has Not Sowed and Gathering Where He Has Not Strawed               

IX Breaking Through to the Other Side

10. Entering Into His Presence

11. Submission to the Power of GOD

12. From the Least to the Greatest

13. Seeing Beyond the Prophets

X The Christian Evangelicals Pride and Judgment in the Bog

14. Jerry Falwell and His “Bog” of Believers

15 Croaking in Judgment of Those Outside the “Bog”

16. “Frogs” Bogged Down in the Muck of the “Bog”|

17. The Gift of Redemption Outside the “Bog”

XI Human Intelligence versus Creationism

XII The Presence of the Light

18. The Meaning of the Light

19. The Light Within Us

20. The Healing Power of the Light

21. Guided by the Light

22. My Face You Can Not See

23. Returning from the Light

XIII The Apostle Paul Shaping Early Christianity in His Own Image

24. Misguided Minds

25. Judge Not

26. The Weight of the Law On All Religions

27. Through Jesus Christ?

28. Presenting Yourself to GOD

29. A GOD of Anger and Love

or

 a GOD Only of Love

30. The Meaning of the Resurrection

31. Christ Within

32. Evil

33. Your Own Salvation

34. Pressing Forward

35. Have No Anxiety

36. The Higher Realm vs  the Earthly Realm

37. Fragmented Through the Prophets

XIV A Christian Challenges Rabbinical Judaism

XV Why Muhammad Could Not Accept Roman Catholicism’s God of Jesus Christ

XVI Three Different Approaches to Salvation

38. Three Monotheistic Beliefs

XVII Jesus Goes Back to Genesis to Face the Deceiver 

39. The Eleventh Commandment

XVIII The Challenge for Christianity in the 21st century and Beyond To Continue the Painting

Concluding Statement - The Legacy of Hebraic Belief Meets a 21st century World

Sexuality and Christianity

Comments on Bibliography

Bibliography 

This book challenges the validity of many of the beliefs that in the 4th century were declared to be inviolate by the Roman Bishops and are accepted today in Christianity, as well as in Islam. It supports the work done by religious scholars from the Westar Institute and "The Jesus Seminar." One of them is Elaine Pagels who is quoted below:

Elaine Pagels Quotation

Elaine Pagels  PhD, Department of Religion, Princeton University, scholar on early Christianity.  Most recent book, published in May 2003, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas. New York Times best-seller list for 19 weeks. Nominated for Pulitzer Prize. Also author: The Gnostic Gospels, The Origin of Satan.

The author Elaine Pagels in her book Beyond Belief The Secret Gospel of Thomas remarks:

"I was amazed when I went back to the Gospel of John after reading Thomas, for Thomas and John clearly draw upon similar language and images, and both, apparently, begin with similar secret teaching. But John takes this teaching to mean something so different that I wondered whether John could have written his Gospel to refute what Thomas teaches.... I was finally convinced that this is what happened."