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Recommended Reading

This page offers articles and book links on various topics such as:

• Ingenious Design in nature clearly disproves trial-and-error could have produced several marvels;
  
• Sabbath is not Sunday although we surely can worship on Sunday;
• The tithe is invalidly explained to churchgoers. Once the temple's propertyless priests disappeared, the true tithe goes only to widows and orphans, etc.
  
• Also included below are famous sermons and other books defining soteriology and issues on the Problem of Paul.

Articles of Interest

Proofs for Creation (PowerPoint) - available in English and Spanish
Created by Ingenious Design (Intro & PDF)(draft as of 2009)

Flaws of Young Earth Science Presented By A Christian Attorney (PDF)

The True Law of Tithing: How the Modern Church Spiritual Leaders Rob Widows & Orphans (PDF)

Prophecy about Jesus by Balaam (PDF)

Jefferson' Letters on Jesus' Words Only [I disagree with his view of Jesus as a moralist and no more. Yet, Jefferson sees the variances Paul introduced against Jesus' teachings.]
Christmas & Easter Errors (Intro & PDF)

The Sabbath Command (html)
The Problem of Paul to All Faiths From Following Jesus (Intro & PDF)
Luther Killed Jesus' Words Only Movement in Reformation (PDF)

Enoch: Does It Belong In Canon? (PDF)

Marcionism - the early Paul-only movement that threatened Christianity - (html)

Second Peter & Its Reference to Paul as "Scripture": What Does This Mean? (html)

Trophimus - Was He Misled by Paul to Abominate The Temple in 58 AD? (html)

Early Church Views of Paul (html)

Famous Sermons & Books Refuting Faith Alone in PDF

"Prologue upon the Gospel of St. Matthew," Preface to the New Testament (1534) by William Tyndale, 6 pp.
"Works Wrought Through Faith," Rev. George Horne, 1824, 22 pp.
"Nature and Relations of Faith," Free Will Baptist (Jan. 1860), 17 pp.
"Fides Formata, or Faith Working by Love," by Rev. Jeremy Taylor (1667)(published 1851), 12 pp.
"Faith and Works," Augustine (413 A.D.) (published 1847), 49 pp.
"On the Necessity of a Good Life," Rev. William Paley (published 1825), 21 pp.
"Justification," The Religious Magazine (Sept. 1848), 64 pp.

Web-Based Appendices to Jesus' Words Only

Was Paul or James' Church the More Successful Evangelist? (PDF)
Jude's Epistle: More Evidence of Rift Between Jerusalem and Paul (PDF)
The Authenticity of the Book of Revelation (PDF)
The Verdict: If I Were to Write A Judicial Decision on Paul's Place in Canon (PDF)
Pauline Corruption of Biblical Analysis (PDF)

Famous Thinkers Critical of Paul

Renan, St. Paul (1869) - extended excerpt from pages 326-330

Jeremy Bentham, Not Paul But Jesus (books.google.1823) - reformatted and edited -- pages i-11 (work in progress)

Horatio Woodburn Southworth, To Nazareth or Tarsus? (J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1901) - (available through books.google.com) at pages 52-129 and 200-217. Southworth exposes inconsistencies in Paul's thoughts to prove lack of inspiration. Southworth also exposes several inconsistencies between Paul and Jesus. I have collected some interesting quotes at this link.

Jesus' Important Lessons (in PDF) on:

A Short Biography of Jesus Without the Miraculous: Its Own Miracle (PDF)(Divine inspiration of the apostolic texts is evident without considering miracles of Jesus which it reports. And that is why we can believe Jesus performed miracles, and we can affirm them as further validation of Jesus' identity.)
The Conversion Message That Matters (i.e., Learn The Messianic Prophecies) (PDF)
Jesus' Idea of Faith (PDF)
Jesus' Meaning of Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth (PDF)

Books That Pursue Jesus Words Only Theme

Phyllis Tickle, The Words of Jesus (2009).This divides Jesus' thought into different topics, for thematic consideration. Enjoyable, but without the original sources cited anywhere, it can only be used for meditation, not study. Click here to buy from Amazon.

Dennis Kinlaw, Let's Start With Jesus: A New Way of Doing Theology (Zondervan: 2005). I have read the first 52 pages. He advocates using Jesus first to determine what is the nature of Jesus.

[L. Austin Shelton], Jesus, Keep My Words (1995). Austin prepared a Bible in 1995 that is exclusively all Jesus' words wherever found in New Testament. It is available for $20 in a vinyl leather pocket size. He designed it, no doubt, to reach non-believers in Turkey where he once was an evangelist. It is for anyone. One point I love is Austin puts down "Jesus" as the author. Austin's name appears nowhere in the text itself. What a concept -- to publish a book where Jesus is the sole author. There are 75 copies left. Click here to buy from Amazon.

Mark Douglas Given, Paul’s true rhetoric: ambiguity, cunning, and deception in Greece and Rome (2001) provides proof of systematic guile used by Paul, and unabashedly so. Given collects admissions of these facts from leading reformers. For example, Calvin said about Paul's appearance before the Sanhedrin (Acts 22:30-23:11): "Paul's strategem, which Luke reports, seems out of keeping with a servant of Christ. For the astuteness he used was closely related to a feint, that was not far removed from lying." (Id. at page 81.) Given then quotes Calvin defending that this is not lying by Paul, but essentially Calvin means that lying for a greater good justifies lying, as Given explains. (Id.) There is an excellent book review of Given's book at this books.google.link.

Thomas Cosette, Hebrew Prophecies of the Coming of Paul (2007) - available via books.google.com. For my review and analysis, click this link.

Answering Critics - see this page linked from this site.