Historical Christianity
The Writings of Jesus the Church Destroyed
How the Church Hid the True Historical Jesus
The other day I was in a conversation with my brother who holds a Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. Our conversations rarely turn religious, but on this particular day we spent the better part of the hour-long conversation discussing an emerging theory—something that has likely been brought up many times before in history—but is again making its way back into the mainstream of modern thought.
That “theory” is that you don’t become the prominent religious figure of your era by being an illiterate nobody. Modern scholars are only now, meaning within the last century, rediscovering the lost history of Jesus and his rather prominent family.
One of the things I have learned in my own journey of faith is that the last place to find the truth is to ask the Church, meaning the Church’s holy tradition—especially when it comes to Jesus and his family. This tradition of understanding is usually man-made, meaning massaged, bears little to no resemblance to the actual facts, and was most probably wrought or steeped in Rome’s anti-Semitic aversion to anything even remotely “Jewish”.
