Jesus God Man Or Myth

Did pagan mythologies represent Christs miracles in order to convince them to accept the Christian faith? Beyond these miracles is there enough evidence to prove there was a Jesus? Cutner says no. He also says that the Apostle Paul never portrayed Jesus as a man, but as a spiritual being. To Paul, Christ is found in a spiritual sense within oneself, as opposed to being an actual historical personage. When the Church accepted Paul, this inner reflection was outwardly projected by the Church into an actual mana saviour, according to Cutner. This might be why Paul was almost rejected by the Churchhis views posed a danger to those who might rely on their own spiritual knowledge, rather than the authority of the Church. Whether Jesus lived or not, we still have a lot to learn about ourselves and our true place in the universe. This book, although critical, may be useful in that respect.

Did Jesus Really Exist? The search for the historical Jesus continues to be headline news. Any speculative theory seems to get instant attention as the debate rages about His real identity and the claims made in His name. Did Jesus really exist? Is there real historical evidence that demonstrates that He lived and actually said and did the things the Gospels record? Is there any validity to the speculative claims that the Jesus story was a myth, borrowed from a variety of pagan cultures of the ancient world? In this follow-up to the book God’s Not Dead (that inspired the movie), Man, Myth, Messiah looks at the evidence for the historical Jesus and exposes the notions of skeptics that Jesus was a contrived figure of ancient mythology. It also looks at the reliability of the Gospel records as well as the evidence for the resurrection that validates His identity as the promised Messiah. Man, Myth, Messiah will be released concurrent to the God’s Not Dead movie sequel, which will cover the same theme.

J. Harvey Hames was born in Atlanta, Georgia on September 30th. He accepted Jesus Christ as his savior at seven years old in Stockton, California. However, after going to twelve different schools up to the eighth grade, he stopped going to church until he was seventeen. Then he went to Riverside Church of God in Atlanta, Georgia until he joined the Air Force Reserves for eight months. Received an honorable discharge and started working for Calvary Cathedral in Louisville, Kentucky to become an ordain minister. At twenty-one he was married and had a wonderful son, Todd Lynn Hames. After ten years of being married Harvey and his wife got a divorce and she moved to Nashville, Tennessee to work. She took their son Todd with her to Nashville. Harvey stayed in Louisville and started working for a large real estate office. Shortly thereafter they made him a manager of their main office. Harvey would see his son on many weekends until Todd got older and married. Then he would only see his son maybe twice a year. After feeling lost for several years. Harvey started dating a beautiful lady called Melaine. Harvey is now retired in Delray Beach, Florida. Four months after moving to Florida his loved one got breast cancer. Seven years later she passed on to Heaven. They were together for over 30 years. Harvey is getting older now and he told me before he leaves this world for Heaven that he wanted to write a number of books, songs and poems that would glorify God and last long past his time on earth. He said this book is the second one in a series of six. He hopes you will enjoy reading this book, and maybe it will cause you to want to study the Bible more in the future. In fact, he will guarantee you will want to read the Bible more. The first book was called, "Bible Understanding" (plus Circle of Love). Then this one is called "Jesus" (God, Man, Myth). The next one should be called "Heaven".

The author has utilized the tools of modern biblical criticism to strip away much of the mythology and misunderstanding about the nature of the historical Jesus. His goal has been to discover Jesus in his setting of first century Palestine, and to illuminate his life, ministry, death and resurrection from this context. Jesus in the Gospels elucidates a more authentic Jesus allied to the liturgical and theological development of the early Christian church.

Jesus was the leader of a radical faction of Essene priests.He was not of virgin birth. He did not die on the Cross. He married Mary Magdalene, fathered a family, and later divorced. He died sometime after AD 64. This controversial version of Christ's life is not the product of a mind which wants to debunk Christianity. Barbara Thiering is a theologian and a biblical scholar. But after over twenty years of close study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gospels she has developed a revolutionary new theory which, while upholding the fundamental faith of Christianity, challenges many of its most ingrained supernaturalist beliefs. Jesus the Man will undoubtedly upset and even outrage those for whom Christianity is immutable and unchallengeable. But for many who have found the rituals of the contemporary church too steeped in medieval thinking, it will provide new insights into Christianity in the context of the modern world.