Saying â??Jesus was Jewishâ? sounds so obvious to most Christians that it doesnâ??t seem worth the energy to exhale. Yet, many Christians never give the idea a second thought, which is why it needs reasserting despite its obviousness.
Christians, according to author James Carroll, have forgotten Jesusâ?? Jewishness. And this has has severe consequences. So the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award winner has penned Christ, Actually: The Son of God for The Secular Age to reintroduce Christians to the Jewish Jesus. Here, Carroll discusses the negative effects of forgetting Jesusâ?? religious tradition and how modern Christians can recover a more accurate understanding of their Messiah.
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