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introduction for the inquisitive reader
biographical overview who he was and wasn't
afterlife not Jesus' concern
animal sacrifice bloodless religion
apocalypse did Jesus preach hellfire?
baptism sin wash for Jesus and others
****beatitudes** Jesus' words and others' words
beloved disciple witness for the un-gospel
bible scripture old and new
bishop the unjesus
body focus on the physical
Buddha Jesus' close kin
charity key Christian virtue and legacy of Jesus
The Da Vinci Code secret (and false) messages
divorce women's status
dreams convenient literary device
Elijah Jewish prophet with his own second coming
equality ancient source of modern egalitarianism
exorcist Jesus and demons
failure reinterpreting Jesus as a failure
faith from trust to blind belief
father Jesus on titles of honor
Francis of Assisi the most Christlike Christian
Gandhi the 20th century's most Christly holy man
Galilee Jesus' inauspicious homeland
gentiles Jesus' inadvertent audience
god how Jesus became god
golden rule key to Jesus' success
gospels competing accounts
heaven from sky to spiritual home
hell revenge fantasy
humanism Jesus' legacy
inerrant Christian treatment of scripture
Thomas Jefferson ethics of Jesus
Jewish guilt Christian libel
John's gospel the un-gospel
John the baptist, see John the washer
John the washer Jesus' apocalyptic mentor
Judaism libeled religion of Jesus
kingdom of god what Jesus promised
Lao Tzu poet of the cosmic way
logos jesus as the word of god
C. S. Lewis famous, flawed trilemma
little drummer boy Luke beats Matthew
logos Jesus as the divine word
LORD Yahweh transitioning to the one god of all
Luke's gospel the all-around best gospel
Mark's gospel the gospel that lost its point
Mary of Magdala women, visions, and sex
massacre of the innocents bloodshed starts early
Matthew's gospel best gospel for church reading
Mormon, see Joseph Smith
Moses Jewish lawgiver
Muhammad a prophet who got it right
mystery Orpheus and transubstantiation
oppression origin of Jesus' compassion
The Passion of the Christ Luke as buzzkill
Paul revealer of the revealer
private and public public Jesus and secret Christ
relativism the secret power of the golden rule
sacrifice Jesus' death and Christian sacrament
Albert Schweitzer Jesus as a failure
sheol dark pit of death
show Jesus' deeds as put-ons
slavery abolished by Jesus' efforts
Joseph Smith flesh-and-blood Jesus
Socrates secular Jesus
son of god on close terms with the man upstairs
soul, see body
synoptics three gospels that agree
temple center of Jewish religion
trinity unifying and divisive doctrinre
vision, see dreams
Yahweh, see LORD
Zoroaster Persian dualistic holy man