Offer suggestions here

[Eddie]

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I'll try to post new books once a week.

[Live4Christ]

Originally Posted by Eddie

Welcome to the Book Nook. In this forum, each topic is dedicated to a specific book.

To keep the list short and useful, only moderators may create a new topic in the Book Nook. Registered users may reply to topics.

Offer your suggestions for books to be listed by posting a reply in this topic. Please include the title, author, an Amazon link, and a brief note about why it should be included in the list. Please keep suggestions limited to books about the "Christ myth" theory (pro or con), or having some relevance thereto.

I'll try to post new books once a week.

Hey how about you suggest people to read the Bible, after all it's a 'fictional' book, eh??? Gotta be fair, right?

[Pastor Benny Hymn]

Good idea Live4Christ!

I suggest new Bible readers don't read it from the very beginning though but start at the book of Levitcus and then move onto Hosea 13:16.

Then they can read it from Genesis on LOL!! D

[Live4Christ]

Originally Posted by Pastor Benny Hymn

Good idea Live4Christ!

I suggest new Bible readers don't read it from the very beginning though but start at the book of Levitcus and then move onto Hosea 13:16.

Then they can read it from Genesis on LOL!! D

LOL! You got that right! Amen!

[Eddie]

Hmm...the Christian Holy Bible would indeed seem to fit the requirements (i.e., be a book and address the existence of Jesus issue).

But which one(s)? NIV Study Bible? Any others?

[Live4Christ]

Originally Posted by Eddie

Hmm...the Christian Holy Bible would indeed seem to fit the requirements (i.e., be a book and address the existence of Jesus issue).

But which one(s)? NIV Study Bible? Any others?

NIV or KJV!

[Photo3D]

This book is not only about Jesus but ALL religions and modern paranormal beliefs.
It is the best serious skeptic rational book I have ever read.
It even question the existence of God since some people may say
Jesus is not real but God Is.
The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal

[Norm]

TALMUD OF JMMANUEL
The Talmud of Jmmanuel: The Clear Translation in English and German. Translated from Aramaic to German by Isa Rashid, completed and encoded by Eduard A. Meier (Billy), 2001 Third Edition, Softbound, (293 pages)

Who was Jmmanuel, the man known today as Jesus? Was there a connection to extraterrestrials and was he really resurrected? These questions and many more are ultimately answered in this clear German/English translation from the original 2,000 year-old Aramaic scrolls discovered in a burial cave. From the back cover, "The Talmud of Jmmanuel may well be the true testament of the man we know as Jesus. This ancient document was discovered in 1963 after having been encased in resin and buried for 20 centuries. It's discover was assassinated, and the original scrolls were burned. Fortunately one fourth of them had already been translated into Swiss-German. This book gives you the original German text, side-by-side with the final, authorized translation into English.


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books

[Christopher N]

Read some Lewis and Chesterton, or Yancey.

BUT MOST OF ALL READ THOMAS MERTON..PLEASE

Seeds of Contemplation

[Andrew Merritt]

How about that book the sacred mushroom and the cross or that book the sacred mushroom and the origins of santa clause? Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D. and Paula Jo Hruby, Ed.D.
Author Index | Title Index


The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross:
A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity
within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East.

Allegro, John M. (1970).
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co.


ISBN: None


Description: Second printing, xxii + 349 pages.


Notes: "In a book called The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, the Biblical scholar John Allegro broadens these speculations even further by the use of etymological arguments to propose that Christianity originated as a hoax in which the rabbi Jesus was invested with the powers and names of the fly agaric, the true body of Christ. In effect, according the Allegro, Christianity was the exoteric disguise of a secret mushroom cult whose original content was eventually forgotten. His arguments are not considered plausible by either religious or secular Biblical scholars, but we mention them here for their interest and boldness." (Grinspoon & Bakalar, Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered, pages 40-41)


See John Jacques' entry for a critique of Allegro's work.


Contents: Author's note, acknowledgements, introduction, 29 chapters, general index, Biblical index, word index-Sumarian, Accadian, Ugaritic, Semitic, Sanskrit, Hebrew/Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic/Persian, Greek, Latin.


Excerpt(s): Our present concern is to show that Judaism and Christianity are such cultic expressions of this endless pursuit by man to discover instant power and knowledge. ...

For the way to God and the fleeting view of heaven was through plants more plentifully endued with the sperm of God than any other. These were the drug-herbs, the science of whose cultivation and use had been accumulated over centuries of observation and dangerous experiment. ...

Vary rarely, and then only for urgent practical purposes, were those secrets ever committed to writing. Normally they would be passed from the priest to the initiate by word of mouth ... But if, for some drastic reason like the disruption of their cultic centres by war or persecution, it became necessary to write down the precious names of the herbs and the manner of their use and accompanying incantations, it would be in some esoteric form comprehensible to those within their dispersed comm unities.

Such an occasion, we believe, was the Jewish Revolt of AD 66. ... Judaism was disrupted ... The secrets, if they were not to be lost forever, had to be committed to writing ...

The means of conveying the information were at hand, and had been for thousands of years. The folk-tales of the ancients had from the earliest times contained myths based upon the personification of plants and trees. They were invested with human faculties and qualities and their names and physical characteristics were applied to the heros and heroines of the stories. ... Here, then was the literary device to spread occult knowledge to the faithful. To tell the story of a rabbi called Jesus, and invest him with the power and names of the magic drug. To have him live before the terrible events that had disrupted their lives, to preach a love between men, extending even to the hated Romans. Thus, reading such a tale, should it fall into Roman hands, even their mortal enemies might be deceived and not probe further into the activities of the cells of the mystery cults with their territories. (pages xii-xiv)