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We cannot know Jesus without knowing his story. Today the debate over who Jesus is rages on. Has the Bible bound Christians to a narrow and mistaken notion of Jesus? Should we listen to other gospels, other sayings of Jesus, that enlarge and correct a mistaken story? Is the real Jesus entangled in a web of the church’s Scripture, awaiting liberation from our childhood faith so he might speak to...

And the first point we need to make is that Israel also called God Father and God called Israel his son. In order to understand Jesus we have to look at more than just the titles by which he was addressed or that he used for himself. In fact, Jesus tended to avoid titles, with the single exception of the “Son of Man.” And even if we take those titles that we find in the New Testament and go back to the Hebrew Scriptures, we have to do more than just look up a concordance
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