WHO WAS THE REAL JESUS? - Part 1 - Garner Ted Armstrong - August 1976

Garner Ted Armstrong

The traditional Jesus is suffering an identity crisis of growing proportions. Was Jesus of Nazareth the Christ of the Crusades? Was he the Jesus of the Jewish persecutions or the Spanish Inquisition? Was he the Jesus of some first century artist's imagination? Who was this most enigmatic figure in all of history? There are about as many varied opinions and conflicting ideas about Jesus Christ as there are people to express them. Every publishing season authors grind out a whole new mill of theological ideas about Jesus Christ, claiming he was anything from an occultic leader of some mystic sect steeped in hallucinogenic experiences to a frustrated Jewish revolutionary. Someone wrote a book supposedly "proving" he was married. Others have claimed that he was a hypnotist and a magician. One author even went so far as to assert that he was a mushroom. Movie makers are now turning out Jesus films at a record rate. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library