"KILLING JESUS" A Must Read

If you read ZEALOT, by REZA ASLAN, or have had someone use that book as reference putting down the HISTORIC reality of the Person Jesus, then "KILLING JESUS" is a MUST READ.

Watching Bill O'Reilly's interview with a Baptist pastor from Dallas and a Roman Catholic priest, who had read "Killing Jesus" so they could talk about it on his show, I realized the crux of O'Reilly's book and congratulate him for writing it. And HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT and it will be the first book I've ever read written by Bill O'Reilly. I will set it next to the book Zealot. 

They didn't say it, but it is in answer to the Book "Zealot - The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan" which is a Muslim propaganda piece parading as History from extant secular sources which in fact leaves the actual SECULAR RECORD of Jesus' Life, to a great extent simply absent. I read Zealot and it made my blood boil because it was such shoddy academic work and such an obvious piece of propaganda.

Meanwhile, Reza Aslan was making the talk show circuit assuring us that the Jesus of History known by Christians was a pious fabrication. I was Reza'a work that was the fabrication.  He ignored all of the Secular Evidence of Jesus existence and ministry and the development of the Church for the first two centuries, as if there was no extant Secular Historic Record.  His first reference to an ACTUAL Secular record is a mocking statement by a Roman writer in 170 A.D. nearly 150 years after the Cross! And in the introduction he tells you in so many words that his "story" is of his construction, (construction = fabrication) since there is little recorded of Jesus in that period.

I knew of many references in the "Annals" of Rome by Pagan Roman writers of the 1st century making reference to Jesus and to Christians, and even more in the 2nd century, which were completely ignored by the author of Zealot. William Wrumbrand did an excellent job a generation ago using the actual secular record to answer the lies of the Soviet Communist produced, "The Atheist's Handbook" in his "The Answer to the Atheist's Handbook."  After reading Zealot I actually re-read "The Answer to the Atheist's Handbook." I thought at the time, someone needs to answer this piece of Muslim Propaganda (Zealot) with FACTS. I contemplated doing it and thought, well really I would just re-write Wrumbrand's book.

So it is clear from their conversation that O'Reilly (actually his co-author) has answered ZEALOT with the ACTUAL RECORD, the ACTUAL HISTORY and constructed and fabricated NOTHING.  Ignorant Fundamentalists are in arms because this book is not about "Christology" and does not focus on the Biblical Record.  Liberal Academics will be angry because it restores the historic record they have spent a hundred years trying to destroy.   This is NOT a book about Jesus "the Christ" but Jesus the historic figure, who really existed and did what was witnessed of him in HISTORY. It is the PERFECT answer to the Muslim propaganda piece "ZEALOT" and exposes Reza Aslan for the academic charlatan he is.

Archpriest Symeon Elias