The Verbal Truth of Christianity, Arthur Telling
The Verbal Truth of Christianity, Arthur Telling
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The Verbal Truth of Christianity
How the Church Co-opted the Jesus Message

Author: Arthur Telling

Narrator: Chirag Patel

Unabridged: 1 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lamplight

Published: 01/30/2020


Synopsis

“Jesus said, ‘Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All.'” This spoken by the Master was banned by the budding Christian Church two-thousand years ago, still deemed a heretical teaching to this day.The Verbal Truth of Christianity effects to bring you to the crux of the central message of the Jesus mission, a universal one of reality's truer nature, the defining of God and cosmos in believable and constructive terms; an understanding of the eternal realm and our relation to it.A simple message overlooked by scholars, yet of such complexity it takes lifetimes to realize; to see and understand how by ignorance and fear we frame our living narratives in birth and death -- necessitating a false mortality.In Chapter 1 this book offers a greater explanation of what “life” is and sets a foundation for a more developed, elevated, meaningful, concept of “God”.Chapter 2 opens with a short exploration of the time and place setting of the story of Jesus, making effort for determining who he was, what he said, why he said it, and further to sift out what he said that the Christian Church embraced, and what he said that the Church rejected. And more importantly, we will begin to see what the Church teaches that Jesus never said or taught.In Chapter 3 we will briefly look at credible gospels of Jesus that the Church rejected then and still rejects now, primarily the “Gnostic” Gospel of Thomas lost to the ages until uncovered by chance in 1945.Chapter 4 reconciles the canonical (New Testament) gospels of the Christian Church with legitimate rejected gospels that the Church deemed heretical (wrong teachings). From this, and with our more elevated understanding of life and who God is, a clear Jesus message emerges of which logic and understanding replaces the childlike message of “faith”.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John on September 07, 2020

More like a pamphlet than a book "The Verbal Truth of Christianity" is divided into six chapters, but the entire book could easily fit into a chapter. The underlying theme is that orthodox Christianity was invented by Saul of Tarsus, and it has little in common with the verbal teachings of Jesus. Art......more

Goodreads review by David Torgerson on April 14, 2020

A well written concise, easy to read expose' of how the message of Jesus got supplanted by St Paul's theological explanation of what "salvation" means. This became the orthodox teaching of the church after removing many historical writings from circulating in the churches that contradicted what the......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on March 26, 2019

Worth reading if you are a student of Christianity. How Jesus’ message turned into Paul’s message seems like a common thread of historical books about Jesus. I liked his his points about the messages of all the major religions being similar.......more

Goodreads review by Patricia Crook on September 12, 2019

The Verbal Truth of Christianity: Enjoyed this book. A very thought provoking book. I liked all of it. I would recommend it to anyone. Thanks for the book.......more

Goodreads review by David on November 25, 2019

Good read Interesting. Very interesting. Good base for learning how to live moment by moment, day to day. I highly recommend it.......more