INVESTIGATING

When I look at the sky I am reminded of how very small I am.  Yet, as a Christian believer I am also aware that smallness does not mean insignificance.

I am continuing to investigate "The Historical Jesus." with the help of a book called "The First Christian" by Paul M. Zahl

The age of reason has left out the miracles and glossed over the ressurrection, so that the picture of Jesus differs from what we have traditionallty thought of.  Later there would be attention turned to the eschatological theme in the ministery and teachings of Jesus.
Albert Schweitzer became a Christian egnostic deciding that Jesus was in fact unknowable.

Traditionallly there would be seen in the words of Jesus an emphasis in divine grace.  All where welcome in his presence.  There then came a movement in the 1990's was a movement of skepticism and critical reasoning.  This was heightened by the terrible experiences of the war, experiences of suffering and death,
Also there was the struggle between the law and grace, the powers of this world and the power of the kingdom.

There had been a switch at Universities from stories of Jesus to ban the bomb!

Then comes the group called the "Jesus Seminar";