Discover the Truth About Jesus and the Secrets of Bible

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M. M. Mangasarian. Discover the Truth About Jesus and the Secrets of Bible

Discover the Truth About Jesus and the Secrets of Bible

Table of Contents

The Truth About Jesus

Preface

PART I

A Parable

In Confidence

Is Jesus a Myth?

The Problem Stated

The Christian Documents

Virgin Births

The Origin of the Cross

The Silence of Profane Writers

The Jesus Story a Religious Drama

The Jesus of Paul

Is Christianity Real?

PART II

Is the World Indebted to Christianity?

Christianity and Paganism

PART III

Some Modern Opinions About Jesus

Another Rhetorical Jesus

"We Owe Everything to Jesus"

A Liberal Jew on Jesus

Felix Adler, Praises Jesus

Appendix

From the Sunday Programs

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VII

VIII

IX

The Bible Unveiled

An Extraordinary Book

A Word with the Reader—Protestant and Catholic

A Word with the Jews

PART I

I. The Neglected Book

What Makes a Book Inspired?

The Sects and Their Bibles

Catholic and Protestant Bibles

Catholics Make Their Own Bible

PART II. I. The Tercentenary of the English Bible

Some Lay Defenders of the Bible—Bryan's Challenge

Bryan's Defense of the Bible

II. Roosevelt on the Bible

III. "Let Them Produce It"

What Is the Best Thing That Can Be Said in Favor of the Bible?

IV. How to Test a Book

Speak According to Knowledge

PART III. I. The First Chapter of the Bible

The First Verse of the Bible

Theologians Discover That Six Days Means Six Periods

The Great Tragedy

II. Taboo and Totem

The Totem

III. The Bible and Magic

The Unbelievable in the Bible

IV. The Strangest Story in the Bible

PART IV. I. God and His Book

The Deity Demands Human Flesh

II. The Portrait of God in the Bible

A Bible Saint

III. The Bible and Judaism

IV. Bible and Talmud

V. The Masterpiece of the Bible—Solomon's Temple

PART V. Contradictions in the Bible

Serious Discrepancies in the Story of Jesus

One Writer Makes Jesus Affirm What Another Made Him Deny

PART VI. I. What Was The Bible Meant to Teach?

II. The Bible and Religion

III. Does the Bible Teach Morality?

IV. Righteousness in the Bible

V. The Ten Commandments

VI. The Commandments Broken

VII. Thou Shalt Despise Women

VIII. The Sermon on the Mount

IX. The Parables of Jesus

PART VII. I. A Better Bible

Conclusion. The Book of God and the Book of Man

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In the next place we hear Pilate pronouncing Jesus guiltless; but, forthwith, he hands him over to the Jews to be killed. Does this read like history? Did ever a Roman court witness such a trial? To pronounce a man innocent and then to say to his prosecutors: "If you wish to kill him, you may do so," is extraordinary conduct. Then, proceeding, Pilate takes water and ostentatiously washes his hands, a proceeding introduced by a Greek or Latin scribe, who wished, in all probability, to throw the blame of the crucifixion entirely upon the Jews. Pilate, representing the Gentile world, washes his hands of the responsibility for the death of Jesus, while the Jews are made to say, "His blood be upon us and our children."

Imagine the clamoring, howling Jews, trampling on one another, gesticulating furiously, gnashing their teeth, foaming at the mouth, and spitting in one another's face as they shout, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" A very powerful stage setting, to be sure—but it is impossible to imagine that such disorder, such anarchy could be permitted in any court of justice. But think once more of those terrible words placed in the mouths of the Jews, "His blood be upon us and our children." Think of a people openly cursing themselves and asking the whole Christian world to persecute them forever—"His blood be upon us and our children."

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