Jesus: Why the World Is Still Fascinated by Him

By Tim LaHaye

Book Overview

Jes s. melo u dielo, l est en todas partes. En nuestras camisetas, calcoman as y hasta en las portadas de destacadasrevistas noticiosas, a o tras a o. Lo vemos en la pantalla gigante, en lostitulares... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143476625X
• ISBN13: 9781434766250
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: David C. Cook
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Irrefutable information

Unlike my normal reviews, single words kept popping into my mind. For a change of pace, here is my review. "What?!?" "Reaalllyyy..." " Wow!" "As IF!" "Hmmmm..." I think this is an excellent book, easy to read. Gives great information with supporting facts, while not seeming too academic.

How Jesus has impacted the world.

I enjoyed this book a great deal. Tim LaHaye has written a very insightful book. Yes, this book is written from a Christian prospective, however, if anyone has ever has been curious as to why and how a small town carpenter born over 2000 years ago is so famous, this is the book to read. I was surprised at what I learned in this book, and shocked at how Jesus's teachings effected the world, especially concerning women. Whether a believer or not, this is definately a book to read.

A Contemporary Defense of the Gospel

Tim Lahaye has written an interesting defense of Jesus and Christianity. He points out how Jesus has remained for centuries a major focus of love, hate, debate, controversy, derision, and worship. This raises the question as to why the name of Jesus arouses such strong emotions. Mr. Lahaye points out the most important source of information about Jesus is the Bible, He quotes a source which acknowledges that no one really knows how many copies of the Bible have been printed, sold, or distributed. The quote goes on to estimate the Bible has been printed around 6,000,000,000 times in 2,000 languages and dialects between 1816 and 1992. Mr. Lahaye then discusses the various attacks on the historic account of the life of Jesus and attacks on the reliability of the Bible as a historic source. He points out how from a strictly historical perspective, the fact that the Biblical account was written down so soon after the events happened, places the New Testament as a historical document on very solid ground. Chapter Three explores the reliability of the Bible as a prophetic writing and compares it to the writings of other self-professed prophets such as Madam Helena Blavatsky, Edgar Cayce, and Nostradamus. Only the Bible sets a standard of 100 percent accuracy. The author goes on to investigate the prophecies surrounding Jesus' First Advent and concluded that Jesus fulfilled over 100 Old Testament prophecies. The mathematical odds of one man fulfilling only 48 of the Old Testament prophecies are 1 in 10 to the 157th power, a number so large as to be incomprehensible. Chapters Four and Five are devoted to the words and works of Jesus and describe certain miracles He performed and the prophecies he spoke, some of which have already been fulfilled. The last part of Chapter Five is concerned with prophecies yet future that will be fulfilled at His Second Advent. Mr. Lahaye concludes that prophecies concerning His Second Advent will be as carefully fulfilled as were the prophecies at His First Advent. The prophecies concerning His Second Advent include the Rapture of the Church; The Judgment Seat of Christ; The Second Coming of Christ; The Millennial Kingdom; and the Great White Throne Judgment/The Eternal Realm. Chapter Six addresses the resurrection of Christ and identifies it as the "cornerstone of Christianity." The Bible teaches a bodily, physical resurrection of Christ; this aspect of Christianity has been under attack from the first day and continues unabated. It is interesting to note how little changes over the centuries; Gnostics of the first century were using the same arguments Gnostics of the 21st century are using. Mr. Lahaye points out that when the Biblical accounts were written, many of the eyewitnesses were still alive; if there had been inaccuracies there would have been no shortage of people to dispute the accounts of the resurrection. It is certain that if it had been possible to refute the resurrection, there would have been a numbe

Rare because its not preachy

Jesus Why The World Is Still Fascinated By Him is a rare book, if you have read any of Tim LaHayes other books. Rare because its not preachy or even slightly harsh or mean. Which some fundamantalist Christian books can be, sadly. Yes, at the end of the book there is one page that asks the reader if they believe Christ was what the Bible says and if so, would the reader like to accept him as their personal saviour. But this is one page only. Actually found the book enlightening, a pleasure to read and even informative. Like how many people know that Jesus has made the cover of TIME magazine more than any other figure in history? Or that since Johann Gutenberg invented the original printing press in 1456 that the Bible had been the number one selling book every year? One learns or re-learns that the original Bible texts were originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek on papyrus which is a plant material, still in use in places like Egypt. The book debates issues like the Gonstic gospels and books about the doubting Thomas that have been published in recent years. The author does a good job of discussing the history of the Bible and what it says about Christ. As well as the documentation that experts both secular and religious Christian/Jewish say proves that Christ was a real man and that the years following his death suggest what his followers wrote and said seems to be true in many ways.