The Teachings Of Jesus Christ

A study of the Gospel of Thomas, exploring what Jesus was really like and what he stood for. It demonstrates that Jesus's teaching is akin to Zen, in that it has an emphasis on direct seeing rather than endless cognition.

While scripture study and understanding the Bible may be challenging for some, The Teachings of Jesus Christ in His Own Words is a welcomed Bible study resource. As a career educator, the author has portrayed Jesus Christ's teachings from the New Testament in a way that is easy to learn and understand. The book brings to light how God's word and promise of everlasting life comes to his children through the Son of God. The author expounds on the words of Jesus and brings to life the core doctrines of Christianity in a way that makes the Gospel of Jesus Christ meaningful in your personal life. The book is organized into fifty chapters, each on a specific topic drawn from the words of Jesus as recorded in the Bible. It covers the entire ministry of Jesus, clarifies the doctrines of salvation established in Jesus Christ's own words and expounds on His role as Savior of the World. Each chapter summarizes key Bible lesson principles that can be applied in your daily life. By reading and studying just one chapter per week the entire book can be covered in a year's time, making it an excellent ongoing resource for enlightenment and spiritual guidance. Get this amazing book today to bring the Light of Christ into your life and create oneness with God and Jesus in a way that only the words from the Prince of Peace Himself can do.

In December 1945, two Egyptian fellahin, digging for natural fertilizer in the Nile River valley unearthed a sealed storage jar. The jar proved to hold treasure of an unexpected sort: a collection of some fifty-two ancient manuscripts, most of which reflect the teachings of a mystical religious movement we call Gnosticism (from the Greek word gnosis, "knowledge"). The texts are also, with few exceptions, Christian documents, and thus they provide us with valuable new information about the character of the early church, and about the Gnostic Christians within the church. In this volume, Marvin W. Meyer has produced a new English translation for general readers of four of the most important and revealing of these early Christian texts -- the Secret Book of James, the Gospel of Thomas, the Book of Thomas, and the Secret Book of John.

In this book, originally published in 1959, Charles and Eleanor Raven provide the Jewish historical and religious background to the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, as well as evidence for Christ's historical existence. The book also includes overviews of the ministry and teaching of Jesus, as well as a breakdown of the stories and events specific to each gospel. This book will be of use to anyone seeking a simple overview of Gospel history and of the background to the events described in the first books of the New Testament.

In How Jesus Became Christian, Barrie Wilson asks "How did a young rabbi become the god of a religion he wouldn’t recognize, one which was established through the use of calculated anti-Semitism?" Colourfully recreating the world of Jesus Christ, Wilson brings the answer to life by looking at the rivalry between the "Jesus movement," informed by the teachings of Matthew and adhering to Torah worship, and the "Christ movement," headed by Paul, which shunned Torah. Wilson suggests that Paul’s movement was not rooted in the teachings and sayings of the historical Jesus, but solely in Paul’s mystical vision of Christ, a man Paul actually never met. He then shows how Paul established the new religion through anti-Semitic propaganda, which ultimately crushed the Jesus Movement. Sure to be controversial, this is an exciting, well-written popular religious history that cuts to the heart of the differences between Christianity and Judaism, to the origins of one of the world’s great religions and, ultimately, to the question of who Jesus Christ really was – a Jew or a Christian.