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Tagline: Jesus may be the greatest mystery!

by Paul Quek, from Singapore
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1.0   Preamble

There is a whole set of mysteries about Jesus Christ — aka Jesus the Christ, Jesus the Messiah; or in various Hebrew-language variations, Yahushua (literally, "Yahweh saves" or "Yahveh is salvation"), Yahshua, Yeshua, Yesua; or in Greek, Iesous; in other languages, e.g., Isa, Issa — that could allow us to create a category that we call in this website the Jesus Mysteries.

... people seem fascinated by the mysterious and puzzling parts of the Bible. This fascination really isn't new, because people have been trying for centuries to "decode" the Bible — such as figuring who (or what) is represented by 666, the "number of the beast" in the Book of Revelation. We may never know (until the end of time, perhaps) how to decode 666, but this hasn't stopped people from speculating.

People also love to speculate about other "coded" passages — such as John 21:11 [that is, The Gospel According to John, Chapter 21, Verse 11], which mentions that Jesus' disciples caught exactly 153 fish in their net. Was John simply reporting a literal fact (there were 153 fish in that net), or did 153 mean something else? Many great minds in Christian history were certain that the number had deep spiritual meaning, but no one can agree on just what it was.

   — J. Stephen Lang, Bible Secrets and Mysteries
        (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2005)


2.0   YouTube Videos

Here are two sets of video clips from the popular video hosting site, YouTube... one set is a presentation by Dr. Craig Blomberg about the historical Jesus, in which Dr. Blomberg assessed the past and present scholarly trends in the search for the historical person of Jesus; this particular YouTube video comes in 6 parts, probably due to the 10-minute limitation placed by YouTube. Dr. Blomberg is apparently a specialist in the parables and the writings in the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles (both of these Biblical books are said to have been written by a certain Biblical-time medical practitioner named Luke). The Blomberg presentation is part of an August 2004 series called "Let There Be Light".

The other set is from the John Ankerberg Show ... Dr. Ankerberg discussed with two others — namely, Dr. Gary Habermas of Liberty University (Lynchburg, Virginia) and Dr. Craig A. Evans of Acadia Divinity College (Wolfville, Nova Scotia; "The Graduate School of Theology at Acadia University") — five recent books on the historical Jesus. The books are: The Gospel of Judas, The Da Vinci Code, The Jesus Dynasty, Misquoting Jesus, and The Jesus Papers.


3.0   Postscript

It is doubtful that we would ever solve all the mysteries surrounding Jesus that in this website we have chosen to categorize as the Jesus Mysteries ... unless Jesus Himself solves the whole thing for us! In any case, let us not fall into anything resembling what I have referred to as The Fringe' ... and in the matter of the Jesus Mysteries, the Fringe includes not only the New Age Movement that uses Biblical terms and ideas, but also other apparently 'mainstream' religions that also use many Biblical terms and ideas but have deviated from the Bible in very significant ways — you know who you are! — so that there is little need even to name these religions since their presence is so obvious.


'Nuff said!



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  2. Please do not assume or conclude that, just because I present many views (in the form of textual notes and video clips) on this website, it means that I am in agreement with or that I believe in the views offered-proferred ... That would be displaying such a parochial and provincial attitude, towards this website and towards me as well!

    As an ex-military officer, I assure you that I am in the habit of reading, viewing and digesting lots of stuff that I don't necessarily believe in ... We call all the stuff we read, view and digest, 'military intelligence' ... The same applies with 'business intelligence' in the business world, of course.

    Our aim, as usual, is to find out what others (including our friends, enemies, competitors, suppliers, strategic partners, business partners, etc.) believe in ... In order to do that effectively, we have to 'get out of the way', so to speak ... we have to remove our humongous ego! ... else we will never ever really have gotten started in our journey of exploration and discovery of the Mysteries of the World .

  3. Here is a sentiment that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
    As I sit down to redo this book for an American audience, what rises before me is last night's dream: I'm in a broad and beautiful land among many trees. It's night. I look up at a huge old tree that's dark against the starry sky in its detail of twig and branch. There is room enough here for all of us, I realize, here in this big, intricately textured park. But I see that some want to cut down the trees and level it out, so huge throngs of people can gather to gaze up at the sun's glare. I watch dark twigs fingering the remote, untouchable stars. A voice speaks: "Don't turn this into a Copernican Garden."

    Waking up, I remember that I went to sleep wondering how to put this book together. And I take "Copernican Garden" to mean a parking lot vista where masses gather to honor the bright sun of traditional science with its old rules as the center of the universe.

    So I will not cut down the trees and level this book out. It is between you and me [or you and I], a conversation as we stroll along in a moonlit fractal garden past webby connections of thought that merge to patterned insight. Here hidden delights nestle in scaling patterns of self-similar but never quite repeating beauty. Here the tree of life hold stars in its branches. No matter how huge, this garden stays human-sized because we have a place in it, you and I. No need to cut down the connective forest and level things out for that bright Sol [sun] of left-brain logic whose daytime dazzle — so close and glaring — can blind us to the myriad constellations beyond.

    [...]

       — Katya Walter, Tao of Chaos
            Sub-title: Merging East and West
            (1994, 1996)

  4. Here is an observation (adapted) made in the Acknowledgement page of a book ...
    It takes many minds to produce a book [including an e-book, of course]. Although most authors [especially of non-fiction books and articles] would prefer not to admit this fact, fundamentally they are merely 'synthesisers' of accumulated knowledge.

    The process of synthesising may unveil a new reality map, or paradigm, which, in due course, will be used by future pioneers to unveil further paradigms.

    This principle was summed up by Sir Isaac Newton when he remarked: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".

    [...]

       — Christian von Nidda, Our Secret Planet
            (2005)

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