the letters of Jesus's brothers was so
dangerous that the hundreds of years the
church fathers refused to include them
in the Bible they were only finally
accepted because the oral tradition is
concerning Jesus's family was so strong
there were some Christian leaders who
said well James I don't know if we
should include him now he's the brother
of Jesus why would you want his letter
because if you read the letter it
doesn't have the gospel that people came
to associate with Christianity in
complete contrast to today's
Christianity the letters of Jesus's
brothers described him as their master
but not divine they see Jesus as a human
character blessed by God the thing about
the book of James it's the teachings of
Jesus but not the teachings about Jesus
James passes on what he got from his
brother you could say it has no theology
and yet it does have a theology but it's
the theology of Jesus but it's no
theology about Jesus in that book
doesn't mention the cross of Christ
doesn't mention the blood of Jesus
doesn't mention forgiving sins through
believing in the Lord our Savior who's
in heaven nothing like that it's an
amazing book to read
this alternative version of Jesus's
message can be found in other texts to
in the Greek quarter of the old city of
jerusalem there is another ancient book
that was not included in the Bible it's
one of the most contested of early
Christian documents possibly even older
than the Gospels themselves I believe it
is the key to understanding Jesus's
original message I'm very sorry that the
library is not in its proper way the
library of the Greek patriarch has the
only complete copy of an ancient
handbook specially written for convert
to Christianity that was compiled when
Jesus's family was still alive the
decayed gives a direct insight into what
the very earliest Christians thought and
did boiler Sepulchre it has never before
been filmed can I hold it yes wow this
is like being close to the early church
of course Wow and and you i'm not using
gloves is that ok it's ok oh yeah using
this one Wow the book begins here
although the or is near to Zoe stream
here to come out there are two ways one
of the life and one of the death the
decay or teaching contains a code of
Christian ethics based on the original
teachings of Jesus and some instructions
as to the proper forms of worship the
afuera Polly methoxy bernalillo alone
there is a great difference between the
two ways the book makes it so dangerous
but today's Christianity is what it
leaves out there is no mention of the
virgin birth no mention of the
resurrection and above all no mention of
Jesus as God
and talk of Jesus in here as Lord and
not Lord God suggesting that they saw
him as being more human than divine I'll
just like you in my opinion in the
evangelists in the Gospels and in the
works of Abu stalls there is a balance
between a presentation of Christ as the
Son of God and ask the son of man the
Lord to whom we believe is divine but he
is human and that's the problem but
2,000 years the church is grappled with
the balance between Jesus is divine and
human natures but it is the divine that
has dominated in the process it is
Jesus's essential humanity and the
humanity of his teachings that has been
lost is the dedicate also contains a
detailed description of a very early
communion service unlike today there is
no suggestion that the bread and wine
are the body and blood of Christ in fact
Jesus is referred to not as God's Son
but his servant and concerning the
broken bread we thank you our Father for
the life and knowledge which you made
known to us through Jesus your servant
to you belongs the glory forever
do you think that one of the reasons why
they don't mention Jesus as Lord God and
they don't mention the resurrection was
because they didn't believe that those
events have taken place that Jesus
wasn't the Son of God and that Jesus
wasn't raised from the dead but instead
he was a human a prophet and not devised
a dangerous question in my opinion the
fact or free resurrection of Christ
couldn't and shouldn't be ignored a Paul
speaks and says if Christ it was not
resurrected then we shall be accused
that we will speak falsely against God
what is absolutely fundamental to all
Christians including myself is the idea
that Jesus is God without that there is
no Christianity what is now clear is
that the very earliest Jewish Christians
including Jesus's own family did not see
him as God and ultimately that is why
the church has gone so far to delete
them from the Christian story
this is Judas the brother of the Lord
according to the place Jude Jude Yahoo
was written in the Bible and the lateral
Jesus's younger brother choose there is
an extraordinary passage denouncing a
group of people who are secretly
corrupting the true faith for admission
has been secretly gained by some who
long ago were designated for this
condemnation ungodly persons who convert
the grace of our God if you decode it it
becomes a clear warning that the new
movement was losing sight of Jesus's
original message by the time Jude writes
he could see the writing on the wall he
could see we're losing out and it's a
battle cry it's a call to arms
spiritually speaking he's not talking
about outsiders he's talking about
people who claimed of a part of us that
are not teaching what we were originally
handed down
these are grumblers malcontents
following their own sinful desires their
loudmouth posters flattering people to
gain advantage he's getting very worried
and he's telling the little group that
was still listen to him I think in
effect he's saying don't listen to all
these new things that are coming along
you fight hard for that original fate
that was delivered to us family
tradition follow the tradition of the
family almost a mute testimony to what
used to be the way when Constantine the
Great made christianity the official
religion of the Roman Empire 1,600 years
ago it was Paul's interpretation of
Jesus's message that was adopted and
Paul based his authority on a series of
mystical visions although he had never
met Jesus and only joined the movement
after his death by contrast James and
the rest of the family who had grown up
with Jesus followed his mission and
being at his death their version of
Christianity a vision of Jesus as a more
human character was declared heresy
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