A Book of Jeremiah: A Study in Hypocrisy - Softcover

Tatham, J.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954528107 ISBN 13: 9780954528102

Publisher: Kit Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

This is the story of a muddled life.
The story carries an argument.
The argumant makes a case.

The case is that the final argument against all religious and other beoiefs and practices lies not in the possibility that there is no God; but the certainty that there is. The witness whose testimony establishes this case is Jesus of Nazareth.

The story serves as a parable. It reveals the confusion between what Jesus said, and what those in authority would prefer- and need- him to have said.

Nobody could urge others to fly airliners into buildings in the name of god, on the bais of the words of Jesus. Leaders of nations could not talk themselves into sending men and women to fight wars with unforseeable consequences on the bais of his words.

Apparently sane rulers of people cannot pray, "Thy kingdom Come", unless they believe that the infinite creator of the universe is unable to be sovereign without their help. The kingdom of God is unlikely to be a democracy.

The most provocative argument is silence - a sign of absolute power. Jesus, havoing spoken lef silence. Rulers of people and religious leaders have been obliged to argue against that silence ever since.

About this title

From the Author

I would not claim that this book is of any great literary merit. It was written because I feel sure that its argument is the truth, even though, in many ways, that truth is unwelcome.
It seems that my life has been perfectly designed, not by me, to drive me to the conclusion that if indeed there is God, eternity and eternal life, the words attributed to Jesus by the four evangelists, heard as finished, final and complete, alone, speak truly of that possibility.
One posibility alone gives truth to all that he is reported to have said, however those words came to be reported: that there is indeed God and, so, the posibility of eternal life, which cannot be 'life after death', unless it is equally 'life before birth'. This is no more than he,himself, said. That is only clear when his words are heard as 'finished'.
That this should be is fraught with truly fearful consuquences. It is idle and misleading to claim that the words of this man will bring peace and harmony either between individuals, 'ethnic groups'or nations. He unequivocally promised that the opposite was the purpose of his coming, or would be its effect. "Think not that I have come to bring peace on earth, not peace, but the sword....", and, "I will set husband against wife, children against parents ......".
It is simply to mislead all for those who uphold and expound the Gospels, or assert belief in Jesus Christ that it is, or ever could be, otherwise, given what he is reported to have said.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kit Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0954528107
• ISBN 13: 9780954528102
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 342