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Quotes from Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation — Albert Nolan

1934–2022 South Africa

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The values of the kingdom [of God] are different from, and opposed to, the values of this world.

Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976)

The kingdom of God, like any other kingdom, cannot be within a man; it is something within which a man can live.

Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976)

The leaders and scholars of Jesus’ time had first enslaved themselves to the law.

Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976)

Jesus wanted to liberate everyone from the law — from all laws.

Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976)

Man must therefore take responsibility for his servant, the law, and use it to serve the needs of mankind.

Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976)

There can be no doubt that Jesus was a remarkably cheerful person and that his joy, like his faith and hope, was infectious.

Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976)

The sinners … had been taught to think of sin as the failure of observe laws of which they were usually quite ignorant. Sin was therefore not always a fully deliberate act.

Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976)

The Christian belief in heaven originated after the death of Jesus with the idea that he had been taken up into heaven or exalted to the right hand of God.

Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976)

The sinners … did not even have the consolation of feeling they were in God’s good books. The educated people told them that they were displeasing to God and “they ought to know.”

Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976)

Rejoicing and celebrating with sinners was incomprehensibly scandalous (Luke 15:1). They [the Pharisees] could only assume that he [Jesus] had become a pleasure-seeker, “a drunkard and a glutton” (Luke 7:34).

Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976)

The remarkable thing about Jesus was that, although he came from the middle class and had no appreciable disadvantages himself, he mixed socially with the lowest of the low and identified himself with them. He became an outcast by choice.

Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976)

Many Christians have been misled for centuries about the nature of God’s kingdom by the well-known mistranslation of Luke 17:21: “The kingdom of God is within you.” Today all serious scholars and translators would agree that the test should read: “The kingdom of God is among you or in your midst.” The Greek word entos can means “within” or “among.”

Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Albert Nolan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.