On The Gospel Of Jesus Of Nazareth

In continuing to examine and understand Jesus of Nazareth, Aslan turns to the gospels, the early sources written by Jesus of Nazareth’s followers and disciples. The gospel of John was written, “To produce faith in Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God” (Jn 20:30-31a). This gospel concentrates more on the heavenly nature of Jesus Christ than any of alternate accounts, and as a result of this, Alsan does not look as carefully at this Gospel than he does for Luke, Matthew and Mark. The gospels Luke, Matthew, and Mark at one point talk about the baptism of Jesus, however “Luke goes one step further… choosing to gloss over Jesus’s actual baptism.”(Aslan, R., 2013, p.87.) Nevertheless, Aslan makes one comment on the Gospel of John stating that in John,

John the Baptist never baptized Jesus, his sole purpose was to “bear witness to Jesus’s divinity.”(Aslan, R., 2013, p.88) This is important for the reader because it helps the reader see that the author only found the gospels reliable and relevant when they said something that could be used to support his thesis.
Considering everything, if Aslan by one means or another figured out how to stop with what he considers the fundamental hard evident facts on which we may obviously depend, it would make for a fairly short memoir. So he goes beyond these bare bones to offer an innovative remaking of the life and times of Jesus based on his own considerations about what probably happened. Finally, based on the reading and what I have learned thus far through various scriptures, there are only two hard recorded truths about Jesus of Nazareth whereupon we can surely depend: he first is that Jesus was a Jew who drove a mainstream Jewish development in Palestine at the beginning of the first century C.E.; the second is that Rome executed him for doing as such. Lastly, although this book has caused some controversy, it was a well-written account of Jesus of Nazareth before Christianity. Alsan did a remarkable job documenting the life of Jesus, however at time it seems he often opts for extreme views and sometimes makes breathtaking statements.