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Holy War The Blood of Abraham
Who was Jesus? What was so unique about message? Why was it rejected by first century Judaism? Why is it rejected by Judaism today? Why does Islam reject it? Why do so many Christians? I wrote this book to find out. I began with the discovery of the lost Gospel of Thomas found in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. `
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Holy War
The Blood of Abraham
(Paperback)
by David Anderson
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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 fourth century were declared 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."
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