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TMOC: Final Draft
To the best of my limited ability, the final draft is now ready for editorial review: The Mind of Christ. (published now)
TMOC: The Plan for Publication
First, I am deeply grateful to everyone who shared in this task. I feel it was a start, something which should get better as we move forward into similar projects. There is nothing suggesting we can’t press ahead with a … Continue reading →
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TMOC — A Roadblock
As noted in the previous post, I have run into a problem. Our single shortest route to the broadest publishing opportunity is Smashwords. If you read their style guide and so forth, you’ll discover they will not work with us … Continue reading →
TMOC: Epilogue (Updated)
The Mind of Christ is much more than simply classical Hebrew. Jesus was a real person, not some two-dimensional figure of mythology. He could be warm and gentle, or prickly and even violent as in cleansing the Temple. Most of … Continue reading →
TMOC: Program Notes
I’ve not had a lot of input on this book, so far. A few of you have been quite helpful, with suggestions of things which we should cover, but no substantial reactions beyond a slew of “likes”. Apparently my writing … Continue reading →
TMOC 7: All in the Family
We know Jesus possessed a prophetic insight. Some of His decisions arise directly from that, but this does not remove the purely human motives which surely fed into some of those choices. Too often Western Christians paint the scenes of … Continue reading →
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TMOC 6: Messianic Expectations
(I debated including this, so I’d like some feedback as to whether my readers think it matters.) We simply cannot hope to understand some of the events and conversations in the Gospels without realizing just what the Jews had in … Continue reading →
TMOC 5: Background
(Offered as the proposed fifth chapter to our Open Source book, The Mind of Christ.) In Western minds, there are two concepts typically regarded as mutually exclusive: God’s sovereignty and human free will. At the very least it requires mental … Continue reading →
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TMOC: Common Sense
(This is offered as a proposed fourth chapter of our book.) If you were born in Europe or the US during the past two centuries, your fundamental assumptions about reality are distinctly different from those the Bible. The West is … Continue reading →
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TMOC: Reign of Justice
(I offer this as a proposal for the third chapter in our book.) God portrays Himself consistently as a shepherd sheik. This is the fundamental image offered throughout the Bible, an Eastern potentate. He reigns absolutely over His domain. Unlike … Continue reading →