Loading…

Jesus of Nazareth: His Life, His Message, His Passion, Volumes 1 & 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Who was this Jesus, this man who died on the cross? That’s the “supreme question of all time,” says former Adventist Review editor William G. Johnsson in his two-volume series titled Jesus of Nazareth. The answer? A real “flesh and blood” person who transcended accepted norms and crossed cultural boundaries, sometimes shocking even to his devoted followers. He mingled with “sinners,” cared...

But only for those who believed in Him. For the pagan Romans and the great majority of the Jews, He was simply Jesus. To call Him Jesus Christ was a statement of faith: it meant that you believed that He was the Messiah. Today, many people say “Jesus Christ” or “Christ” thoughtlessly, or as a profanity. They do not make any claim to believe in who He was. It’s just a name, commonplace, to be tossed out and kicked around without thinking. Strangely, they don’t use the names of other religious figures
Volume 1, Page xiv