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To: stevem

http://www.amazon.com/Brother-Jesus-Lost-Teachings-Christianity/dp/1594770433/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355102992&sr=1-3&keywords=James+brother+of+jesus


51 posted on 12/09/2012 5:35:43 PM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does.)
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To: maine-iac7
One troubling sentence found in the third review of the book;

Uh, I don't quite know how the books author could come away with that, if taking the texts at face value. It would take a lot of explaining away to end with saying the NT doesn't portray Jesus as "only begotten son of God". Mary, the virgin birth, etc? Perhaps a close relative like James (actual brother, Mary & Joseph parents of himself?) might have trouble with seeing Jesus as truly son of God, but, uh, couldn't Mary explain the situation? So what gives? I wonder if this writer is trying to plant the seed that Jesus wasn't who He said he was, then have the reader decide on their own to reject the Resurrection (even as the writer is alleged to posit it to have occurred?)

75 posted on 12/10/2012 12:01:00 AM PST by BlueDragon (and this is one of those places where they get caught with their hand in the cookie jar)
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