Table of Contents
Introduction 9
1 Not Just a Figment of Someone's Imagination: Historical Proof for Jesus 13
2 A Messiah by Any Other Name: The Name of Jesus 25
3 The New Testament Proves the Old: Messianic Prophecies 31
4 Lunatic, Liar or Lord?: Jesus Proved Who He Is 47
5 He Said What?: Jesus Claimed to Be God 55
6 Clueless on the Heights: The Mount of Transfiguration 67
7 The First Christian Was a Jew?: The Jewishness of Christianity 73
8 A Rebel with a Cause: Jesus, the Leader to a New Kingdom 81
9 The Lost Years of Jesus, the Not-Always-Nice Guy: Jesus' Youth and Sarcasm 85
10 What Love Has to Do with It: Love Your Enemies 89
11 Swiped, Swooning or Sprung?: The Crucifixion and the Resurrection 97
12 The Whole Truth and Nothing But: Scriptures and How Jesus Communicated 123
13 Clearing the Air: God's Ways Are Not Our Ways 135
14 A Sin by Any Other Name Is Still a...: Jesus and the Problem of Sin 141
15 Making the Cut: Forgiveness 151
16 What Came Down Must Go Up and Out: The Ascension and the Great Commission 175
17 The Devil Made You Do It?: Satan, the Adversary of Jesus 183
l8 What Do I Have co Fear But...: The Second Coming 191
19 Is Neptune a Christian Planet?: What Being a Christian Means 203
Endnotes 217
About the Author 219