Earl J. Doherty ( born 1941 ) is a Canadian author of The Jesus Puzzle ( 1999 ), Challenging the Verdict ( 2001 ), and Jesus: Neither God Nor Man ( 2009 ).

In 1999, his book The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ?

He self-published a 2005 re-release of The Jesus Puzzle under his own imprint, Age of Reason Publications, along with two other books.

Jesus: Neither God Nor Man ( 2009 ) is a revised and expanded version of The Jesus Puzzle.

Doherty has used the title " The Jesus Puzzle " for four different works.

In 1997, the Journal of Higher Criticism published his article, " The Jesus Puzzle: Pieces in a Puzzle of Christian Origins.

" His non-fiction book The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ?

Frank Zindler, former editor of American Atheist, in a review of The Jesus Puzzle described it as " the most compelling argument against the historical Jesus published in my life-time ".

George Albert Wells, who now argues a more moderate form of the Christ myth and who rejects Doherty's view that the mythical Jesus of Paul did not also descend to Earth, has nonetheless described The Jesus Puzzle as an " important book ".

R. Joseph Hoffmann considers that there are " reasons for scholars to hold " the view that Jesus never existed, but considers Doherty " A ' disciple ' of Wells " who " has rehashed many of the former ’ s views in The Jesus Puzzle ( Age of Reason Publications, 2005 ) which is qualitatively and academically far inferior to anything so far written on the subject ".

Hector Avalos has written that The Jesus Puzzle outlines a plausible theory for a completely mythical Jesus.

* Website of Earl Doherty including a reproduction of his Fall 1997 Journal of Higher Criticism article " The Jesus Puzzle: Pieces in a Puzzle of Christian Origins "

The Jesus Puzzle.

* Earl Doherty is a contemporary advocate of the Jesus Myth theory and author of The Jesus Puzzle.

* The Jesus Puzzle, by Earl Doherty ( Age of Reason Publications, 1999 )

The spirit of this group was that we were -- and are -- living in a world doomed to eternal punishment, but that God through Jesus Christ has provided a way of escape for those who confess their sins and accept salvation.

The responsibility for scores of deaths, including the abduction and murder of Jesus Maria Galindez, a professor at Columbia University in New York, has been laid at his door.

To be the Savior and the Lord, Jesus Christ has to be a historical individual with a biography all his own ; ;

Each man can identify himself with the history and the death of Jesus Christ because Jesus Christ has identified himself with human history and human death, coming as the head of a new humanity.

The outcome of such an experiment has been in due time the acceptance of the Bible as the Word of God inspired in a sense utterly different from any merely human book, and with it the acceptance of our Lord Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God, Son of Man by the Virgin Mary, the Saviour of the world.

I praise God for the privilege of being a nurse who has that peace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

When that fear has been removed by faith in Jesus Christ, when we know that He is our Savior, that He has paid our debt with His blood, that He has met the demands of God's justice and thus has turned His wrath away -- when we know that, we have peace with God in our hearts ; ;

I am convinced of this, that he who has begun a good work in you will bring it to perfection until the day of Christ Jesus.

He who believes in the Son ( Jesus Christ, the Son of God ), has everlasting life.

John 3: 16 says that only those that accept Jesus will be given eternal life, so the people that do not accept him cannot burn in hell for eternity because Jesus has not given them eternal life, instead it says they will perish.

* Man has free will to respond or resist: Free will is limited by God's sovereignty, but God's sovereignty allows all men the choice to accept the Gospel of Jesus through faith, simultaneously allowing all men to resist.

The Lord Jesus Christ gave His Spirit to His Apostles ; they in turn laid their hands on those who should succeed them ; and these again on others ; and so the sacred gift has been handed down to our present bishops, who have appointed us as their assistants, and in some sense representatives.

has since accepted the Law of Thelema, a religion which claims to supersede Christianity, it is no longer concerned with apostolic succession deriving from Jesus.

According to this view, though Mark has Jesus as the Son of God, references occurring at the strategic points in 1: 1 (" The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God ", but not in all versions, see Mark 1 ), 5: 7 (" What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?

Under Adoptionism Jesus is currently divine and has been since his adoption, although he is not equal to the Father, per " my Father is greater than I " ().

Baptism has been called a sacrament and an ordinance of Jesus Christ.

Nineveh repented, but Jesus ' generation, which has seen and heard one even greater than Jonah, fails to repent.

Through his typological interpretation of the story of Jonah, Jesus has weighed his generation and found it wanting.

`` As many as received Him ( Jesus ), to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name ''.

Christianity depicts a sharp distinction between angels, divine beings created by God before the creation of humanity and are used as messengers, and saints, the souls of humans who have received immortality from the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who dwell in Heaven with God.

Moses received the Torah ( Tawrat ), David received the Psalms ( Zabur ), Jesus inspired the Gospels ( Injil ), and Muhammed received the Qur ' an.

1 Corinthians 15, 3-7 includes an early creed about Jesus ' death and resurrection which was probably received by Paul.

Most Protestants believe this salvific grace comes about at the moment of personal decision to follow Jesus, and that baptism is a symbol of the grace already received.

As the Kingdom of God described in the New Testament and particularly the Book of Revelation, Heaven is a new or restored earth, a World to Come, free of sin and death, with a New Jerusalem led by God, Jesus, and the most righteous of believers starting with 144, 000 Israelites from every tribe, and all others who received salvation living peacefully and making pilgrimages to give glory to the city.

According to TFI, as a result of Flirty Fishing, " over 100, 000 received God's gift of salvation through Jesus, and some chose to live the life of a disciple and missionary ".

Deicide has received considerable controversy relating to their albums and lyrics, which include vehement anti-Christian themes, such as " Death to Jesus ", " Fuck Your God ", " Kill the Christian ", " Behead The Prophet " and " Scars of the Crucifix ", among others.

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, " This is my body which is for you.

35 or 50-between 98 and 117 ), one of the Apostolic Fathers, mentions the Eucharist as " the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ ", and Justin Martyr speaks of it as more than a meal: " the food over which the prayer of thanksgiving, the word received from Christ, has been said ... is the flesh and blood of this Jesus who became flesh ... and the deacons carry some to those who are absent.

Jesus sternly orders many who received healing from him: " Do not tell anyone!

Considered by Christians to be without sin, Jesus nevertheless received John's baptism, which was for the repentance of sins ( Mark 1: 4 ).

St. Paul in opposing his enemies in Galatia names John explicitly along with Peter and James the Just ( the brother of Jesus ) as a " pillar of the Church ", and refers to the recognition which his Apostolic preaching of a Gospel free from the law received from these three, the most prominent men of the old Mother-Church at Jerusalem ( Galatians 2: 9 ).

The 1973 film of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar was met with some criticism by religious groups, but was well received.

Mary Magdalene is honored as one of the first witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus, and received a special commission from him to tell the Apostles of his resurrection.

In 1449 King René d ' Anjou gave to Angers Cathedral the amphora from Cana in which Jesus changed water to wine, acquiring it from the nuns of Marseilles, who told him that Mary Magdalene had brought it with her from Judea, relating to the legend where she was the jilted bride at the wedding following John the Evangelist received his calling from Jesus.

" If anyone says that the blessed Apostle Peter was not established by the Lord Christ as the chief of all the apostles, and the visible head of the whole militant Church, or, that the same received great honour but did not receive from the same our Lord Jesus Christ directly and immediately the primacy in true and proper jurisdiction: let him be anathema.

In France, Michel Potay says he received a revelation, called The Revelation of Arès, dictated by Jesus in 1974, then by God in 1977.

According to the New Testament Gospels, Jesus, on his fateful entry into Jerusalem before Passover, was received by a great crowd of people.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) teaches that John received the promise of immortality from Jesus Christ, as recorded in John 21: 21 – 23.