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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).

— Albert Nolan Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976)

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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.

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