Publisher's Synopsis
"Yeshua" getting to know the real Jesus is a search for identity; the identity of Messiah, and his body of believers. In this book, you will discover the real Jesus of history and scripture, and in so doing, learn who we really are in Messiah.We are a long way down the road from where the Church started, so far that it is difficult for us to have a clear picture of what it was like in the beginning. There is also another obstacle that blinds us to the genesis of the "Church", that obstacle is religion.Religion - and I am speaking about Christianity - has taken on a life of its own. Reality is filtered first through emotional sacred cows that believers hold dear. Besides our sacred cows, there is revisionist history that clouds our 20/20 vision. The Churches - whether you want to admit it or not - are all daughters of the Mother Church in Rome. The Catholic Church has cared little about the truth of history and more about their place in history. As daughters of this behemoth organization, we have come to see the history of the Church, as a whole, through their eyes. Whether one is talking about Peter being the first Pope, or Sunday being the new Sabbath, the maternal Catholic myths have become the foundational bedrock of the overall Church.The Protestant reformation did little to distance itself from the Catholic breast. The ironic thing is, Martin Luther never ceased being a Catholic, and the reformation that championed him, did little to correct some 1300 years of error. I am not saying that the Reformation movement wasn't from YaHWeH, or at the very least had His approval. The Reformation movement did move us away from the tyrannical Roman dictators - although history would record that we only fled one to embrace another.Yet, it was one step back to the lost paradise that we had forgotten. The Jesus of the Church is all we have known. We like him a lot, because he has been portrayed to be so much like us. Think about most Christian images of the Savior. He is usually portrayed as having brown or blond hair. Often he is shown to have blue eyes and western like facial features. Even his beard is usually shown trimmed and neat, rather than long and untrimmed as the Jews. Our Messiah has been well marketed to a Gentile world. It is even taught by many theologians that Jesus did not speak Hebrew. These so called experts try to infer that the Master spoke Greek and or Latin. There are some who admit that he could have spoken Aramaic - but definitely not Hebrew. Jesus couldn't have spoken Hebrew because that would make him too Jewish. The Church decided long ago to give the world a Gentile Savior. Perhaps they thought the Gentile world would be more accepting of Christ if he was made in their image. If this was where the façade ended it would be bad enough, but the Church would not be content with a fraudulent outer re-creation. It was not merely his looks and language that needed to be reformed, it was his very message; a message that is still perpetuate in the pulpit today....
