Deeanne Gist - www.deeannegist.com - Inspirational Romance Author

Friday, March 31, 2006

Sunday Night

Sunday night, Dateline (NBC) will be talking with Michael Baigent, author of The Jesus Papers in which he claims Jesus survived the crucifixion (thus meaning, of course, that He wasn't raised from the dead because according to Baigent, He never died):

"What if everything you think you know about Jesus is wrong? In The Jesus Papers, Michael Baigent reveals the truth about Jesus's life and crucifixion. Despite -- or rather because of -- all the celebration and veneration that have surrounded the figure of Jesus for centuries, Baigent asserts that Jesus and the circumstances leading to his death have been heavily mythologized.
As a religious historian and a leading expert in the field of arcane knowledge, Baigent has unequaled access to hidden archives, secret societies, Masonic records, and the private collections of antiquities traders and their moneyed clients. Using that access to full advantage, Baigent explores the religious and political climate in which Jesus was born and raised, examining not only the conflicts between the Romans and the Jews, but the strife within the different factions of the Jewish Zealot movement. He chronicles the migrations of Jesus's family, his subsequent exposure to other cultures, and the events, teachings, and influences that were most likely to have shaped his early years. Baigent also uncovers the inconsistencies and biases in the accounts of the major historians of Jesus's time, including Josephus, Pliny, and Tacitus. The enduring influence of these accounts in forming our most common conceptions of Jesus reveals that spin is not a new phenomenon.

Taking us back to sites that over the last twenty years he has meticulously explored, studied, and in some instances excavated for the first time, Baigent provides a detailed account of his groundbreaking discoveries, including many never-before-seen photos. The evidence he has uncovered has lead him to make shocking new assertions that threaten the conventional account of Jesus's life and death and shake the very foundation of Western thought, based as it is upon the assumption of Jesus's divinity. Ultimately, his investigation raises the hope that we may gain a new understanding of Jesus."

Prayer is a powerful, powerful tool we have. With the faith of a mustard seed, we can say to a mountain, "Move!" and it will move. I implore you to grab onto that faith and to ask the Holy Spirit to open the eyes and ears and hearts of the viewers of Dateline and the readers of this book so that they may know the truth ... and with that truth, be set free.

Pray that the Lord reveal His Glory. That He shut the mouth of the lion. That He put the broadcast and the book through the fire and that only the purest of truths be left. We each have the power given to us by the Holy Spirit to do this. If we did it corporately, think of the mountains we could move. The lives we could change. The glory we could bring to our Savior and God.

posted by Deeanne at 11:11 AM

3 Comments:

Barb said...: It's always interesting to see how desperately some people want to prove that Jesus isn't who He is. It's so tempting to want to say: Methinx thou dost protest too much....
EJ said...: According to Methodism and Presbyterian (which I am and was), there are two 'musts': 1. Belief that Jesus is God, and that he DIED and ROSE AGAIN; and 2. That the Bible is the inerrant word of God.

According to the Bible, a centurion pierced Jesus' side, and water and blood came out. If the blood was mixed with water, there was no circulation. People with no circulation are dead.

That was easy!

Of course, non-believers don't take points 1 and 2 into consideration, and I'm preaching to the choir here. My mom made a good point yesterday, though. Wisdom comes from God. No God, no wisdom. 'Nuff said.
Jezreel said...: Amen EJ and Amen Barb! That's all I have to say about ThAT!