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Ecce Deus: Essays on the Life and Doctrine of Jesus Christ : with Controversial Notes on

This book delves into the life and doctrine of Jesus Christ through a series of essays, offering insights and analysis that may provoke debate and discussion. more

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Joseph Parker
Joseph Parker

Joseph Parker was an English Congregational minister born on April 9, 1830, and died on November 28, 1902. He was known for his profound theological insights and his inspiring sermons. more

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“It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other being would have condemned him at once as either a bloated egotist or a dangerously unbalanced person...when He said He himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if he expected longer the devotion of any disciples-unless He was sure He was going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared say a thing like that!”

“I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If the resurrection of Jesus from the dead on that Easter Sunday were a public event which had been made known...not only to the 530 Jewish witnesses but to the entire population, all Jews would have become followers of Jesus.”

“People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.”