Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God But Were Afraid to Ask: The Jesus Edition

by Metaxas, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780830746156
• ISBN10: 0830746153
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-14
• Publisher: Regal

Summary

We all have questions about Jesus, but very few of us get the answers wers"re looking for-if the answers even exist! Do they? Where (in heavenrs"s name) do you go to find out? New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas understands how hard it can be to get hard truths, and thatrs"s why he is writing this hilarious, entertaining guide to the most influential single Person to have ever lived on the face of the earth. Like his previous books in this style, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God is a book that takes questions about the Son of God seriously enough to get silly- where appropriate. Metaxas covers questions about Jesusrs" life -Did He live at all?-, His death -If He truly was the Son of God, why did He have to die?-, His resurrection -Did Jesus really come back after death?-, and much more. Apologetics has never been so much fun!

Author Biography

ERIC METAXAS is the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery. His writing was first published in Atlantic Monthly, and has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Regeneration Quarterly, Christianity Today, National Review Online, Beliefnet and First Things. The American Booksellers Association chose Metaxas\u2019s The Birthday ABC as a 1995 Pick of the List and Amazon.com honored his Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving with their Number One Bestseller Award for Thanksgiving 1999. He has been featured numerous times on CNN, The Fox News Channel and other television networks, and has been a guest on NPR. He is the founder and host of Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life, a monthly event of entertaining and thought provoking discussions that feature such speakers as Sir John Polkinghorne, Dr. Armand Nicholi, Os Guinness, Lauren F. Winner and Peter Kreeft. Metaxas serves on the vestry of Calvary/St. George\u2019s Episcopal Church, and lives in Manhattan, New York, with his wife and daughter.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Not Just a Figment of Someone's Imagination: Historical Proof for Jesus	p. 13
A Messiah by Any Other Name: The Name of Jesus	p. 25
The New Testament Proves the Old: Messianic Prophecies	p. 31
Lunatic, Liar or Lord?: Jesus Proved Who He Is	p. 47
He Said What?: Jesus Claimed to Be God	p. 55
Clueless on the Heights: The Mount of Transfiguration	p. 67
The First Christian Was a Jew?: The Jewishness of Christianity	p. 73
A Rebel with a Cause: Jesus, the Leader to a New Kingdom	p. 81
The Lost Years of Jesus, the Not-Always-Nice Guy: Jesus' Youth and Sarcasm	p. 85
What Love Has to Do with It: Love Your Enemies	p. 89
Swiped, Swooning or Sprung?: The Crucifixion and the Resurrection	p. 97
The Whole Truth and Nothing But: Scriptures and How Jesus Communicated	p. 123
Clearing the Air: God's Ways Are Not Our Ways	p. 135
A Sin by Any Other Name Is Still a...: Jesus and the Problem of Sin	p. 141
Making the Cut: Forgiveness	p. 151
What Came Down Must Go Up and Out: The Ascension and the Great Commission	p. 175
The Devil Made You Do It?: Satan, the Adversary of Jesus	p. 183
What Do I Have co Fear But...: The Second Coming	p. 191
Is Neptune a Christian Planet?: What Being a Christian Means	p. 203
Endnotes	p. 217
About the Author	p. 219
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