The Amazing Aims and Claims of Jesus: What You Didn't Learn in Church

by Anthony Buzzard

Medical science is incapable of extending life beyond a few extra years. Jesus, however, claimed to know the secret of living forever. He revealed that secret clearly in his preaching about immortality and the Kingdom of God. Thousands of denominations claim to be following the Bible as their guide to true religion. But they seem unable to agree about what it teaches. The Church is fragmented. Anthony Buzzard contends on the basis of Scripture that the Church is leaving out the major element of the saving Gospel. The Protestant Reformers did not really protest or reform as fully as they claimed. They left a legacy of church tradition unexamined and unreformed. It is time to protest vigorously about the difference between Jesus' presentation of the Gospel and the modern, easy-belief versions of the Gospel. Evangelicals and almost everyone else have forgotten what Jesus meant by the Gospel. They are defining it unbiblically. Anthony Buzzard, with a long career in Bible research, writing and teaching, proposes that the secret of immortality is sitting right there in the Bible. But it is either obscured or neglected by churches. Churches have inherited a belief system which makes the New Testament a confusing book. Many experts in church history know this to be true. Jesus came to reveal the way to life in the future Kingdom of God. Jesus' Gospel or Good News was concentrated on one topic. Our destiny as human beings is to achieve indestructible life through future resurrection into the coming age of the Kingdom on earth. That is the heart of the Christian Gospel. Anthony writes for the non-specialist. The first nine chapters are designed to introduce the layman to Jesus' secret of immortality. Both the opening nine chapters and the more detailed material in the rest of The Amazing Aims and Claims of Jesus make their appeal to layman and scholar alike.

Genres: Christian

Paperback

First published April 22, 2006

About the author

Sir Anthony Farquhar Buzzard, 3rd Baronet, ARCM (b. 28 June 1935), is a biblical scholar, unitarian Christian theologian, author and professor on the faculty of Atlanta Bible College.

Reviews

[Judy Lund]

That there is One God and One God only. That Jesus is his son but he was human because he was begotten which means he had a beginning. Jesus died, God cannot die. I learned that the spirit is God's essence his power. I learned that we do not go to heaven, that when we die we are asleep. I learned that Jesus came to preach the gospel of the kingdom. Luke 4: 43, that was his purpose statement. I read this book in 2006 and have continued through this day.

[Derek · Rating 5 out of 5]

Imagine if you didn't know anything about Christianity, but you had a Bible and you read it cover-to-cover a few times. This book describes what you would know about Jesus, his teachings, and his plan for salvation. Unfortunately, due to the corruption of platonic and gnostic thought, the Christianity of today does not look like the Christianity of Jesus.

This book is divided into two main sections. The first section is an overview of the book's premise, while the second part of the book is divided into independent, but progressive "lessons". There is a lot of redundancy/repetition in this book. The ideas will get hammered in, and this might bother some people, but at least you'll remember the teachings when you are done.

Besides these structural "problems" (think of them as teaching methods), this is indispensable for any Christian or seeker who has problems with the orthodox portrayal of Jesus and it's abandonment of his core message: the Good News of the Kingdom of God. Read Luke 4:43, and if you don't know exactly what it means, you should read this book.