Jesus and the Gospel of Q: Christ's Pre-Christian Teachings as Recorded in the New Testament - Softcover

Seabrook, Lochlainn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0991377915 ISBN 13: 9780991377916

Publisher: Sea Raven Press, 2014

Synopsis

Did you know that the true Jesus of history had no intention of founding a new religion and that the faith that took His name actually arose long after His death? Did you know that our Lord did not portray Himself, nor did His first followers see Him, as the Messiah, but rather as an enlightened teacher, amazing physician, and sagacious prophet?

Did you know that the real Jesus never referred to Himself as "Savior" or even as the "son of God," but instead called Himself the "son of Man," a common Aramaic expression meaning a "human being"? Did you know that He did not preach "The Gospel of Jesus Christ," but rather what He called "The Gospel of the Kingdom," which concerns a spiritual state of mind?

Did you know that like His brother James (the earliest New Testament writer) the genuine Jesus never mentioned His virgin birth, His Disciples, the Twelve Apostles, the Last Supper, His coming betrayal, trial, redemptive death on the cross, or resurrection, or even the Christian faith? And did you know that the evidence for all of this can be found in a secret scroll known as "The Gospel of Q" that exists in plain sight in the Bible, and yet is generations older than the four canonical Gospels?

In his powerful book Jesus and the Gospel of Q: Christ's Pre-Christian Teachings As Recorded in the New Testament, award-winning historian and Bible authority Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook unveils the hidden enigmas of the mysterious gospel that has been "lost" for nearly 2,000 years, the little book that finally uncovers the authentic Jesus and His true ministry: The Gospel of Q. Unlike so many scholarly titles on Q, Colonel Seabrook makes this complex three-layered collection of Jesus' sayings easily accessible to everyday Christians by citing Q verbatim from the King James Version of the Bible.

Also included is a helpful and easy-to-understand Introduction, a comprehensive Index, and an in-depth Bibliography that provides additional source material for the interested Q student. And not only does the book contain the complete transcripts of the original but forgotten Good News of Q as found in Matthew, Mark, and Luke (John did not use Q), but with nearly 1,000 endnotes and hundreds of scriptural references, academics, theologians, clerics, churches, and Christian schools will also consider this book to be an indispensable addition to their libraries. Read Jesus and the Gospel of Q and find out why, as the author maintains, Q is Christianity's most authoritative and invaluable document.

Bible expert and Civil War scholar Lochlainn Seabrook, a descendant of the families of Alexander H. Stephens and John S. Mosby, is the most prolific and popular pro-South writer in the world today. Known as the "Southern Joseph Campbell" for his numerous works on mythology, religion, and spirituality, he is a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal and the author of over 50 books that have introduced hundreds of thousands to the hidden truths about Jesus, Christianity, and the Bible. A seventh-generation Kentuckian of Appalachian heritage and the sixth great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford, Colonel Seabrook has a forty-year background in American history, Southern history, and Bible studies, and is the author of the international blockbuster Jesus and the Law of Attraction.

His other titles include: Seabrook’s Bible Dictionary; The Bible and the Law of Attraction; Christ Is All and In All; Britannia Rules: Goddess-Worship in Ancient Anglo-Celtic Society; The Book of Kelle: An Introduction to Goddess-Worship; The Goddess Dictionary of Words and Phrases; Princess Diana: Modern Day Moon-Goddess; Aphrodite’s Trade; and Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!

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About the Author:

Bible authority and Civil War scholar Lochlainn Seabrook, a descendant of the families of Alexander H. Stephens and John S. Mosby, is the most prolific and popular pro-South writer in the world today. Known as the "Southern Joseph Campbell" for his numerous works on mythology, religion, and spirituality, he is a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal and the author of over 50 books that have introduced hundreds of thousands to the hidden truths about Jesus, Christianity, and the Bible. A seventh-generation Kentuckian of Appalachian heritage and the sixth great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford, Colonel Seabrook has a forty-year background in American history, Southern history, and Bible studies, and is the author of the international blockbuster "Jesus and the Law of Attraction."

Review:

BOOK DEVIL REVIEW: In "Jesus and the Gospel of Q," scholar and prolific author Lochlainn Seabrook does his own breakdown of the Q document by presenting, culled from their respective gospels, the sequence of Q sayings as found in each of the three synoptic gospels. He identifies three Q layers, each increasingly removed from the less-tampered-with early stage of Q. The first and earliest layer, Seabrook asserts, is the closest to the seminal phase of the Q document's evolution, said earliest stage being truest to what a historical Jesus with a gnostic bent may actually have taught. This earliest layer of Q came before the advent of Christianity (which, as a breakoff, independent religion separate from Judaism, was preached and established by certain significant figures of Christianity in the wake of Christ's death) and proposed no new religion with Christ at its head but rather the spiritual reform of the current faith, a Judaism that had lapsed into spiritless surface veneer that was not only ineffectual but downright spiritually degrading. The proposed second and third Q layers were increasingly manipulated, molded and manufactured, culminating in the total suppression of Q, except as it can be, with some scholarly insight and a nice bit of educated guesswork, extracted from where its contents are embedded in the canonical gospels. The non-story sayings collection that Q was at the onset was ultimately buried under the story form that grew from the incrementally more fudged-with subsequent layers. Following a compact but comprehensive introduction that explains Q theory, the core chapters are Q verses, the three Q layers extant in each synoptic gospel, presented in a simple context that allows the reader to see the developing themes of each Q layer, and thus the shift from the original Q layer's themes and simple non-narrative structure, through Q2's shift in focus, to the final Q layer and the religious narratives that arose gospels from the ashes of Q1's simple profundity. Dealing in theory means that Seabrook's breakdown - which he admits differs from classical Q theory here and there - is one of those educated scholarly guesses (no derision intended) that can never be authoritatively established. Unless somebody messes around and finds an actual extant Q document languishing in a cave somewhere. Barring that unlikely event, these intelligent surmises will be the closest to a Q document we'll get. Seabrook's culling and organized presentation of Q as merged into the synoptics is a fine introduction to Q theory as well as a polished presentation of what Q may very well have been, in each of its evolving reiterations. - KRISTOFER UPJOHN.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sea Raven Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0991377915
• ISBN 13: 9780991377916
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122