This report is on the book entitled THE JESUS I NEVER KNEW BY PHILLIP YANCEY. First I want to start out saying that my view on who Jesus is and what he means to me has changed. Mr. Yancey brought out in his book the many misconceptions his own people the Jews had of him and even the present day Christian and their views of who Jesus is and the way he went about teaching, preaching, healing and forgiving. First I want to tell you about who I thought Jesus was as a young kid. Growing up the television show GOOD TIMES had show about a black family growing up in Chicago and in this particular episode JJ painted a picture of an old wino named Ned but he made it into an image of a prophet or such that Michael picked up the Bible and read that it was possible that Jesus was a black man well the mother has had a picture of a white Jesus hung on the wall. Well in one swooping incident all of the sudden good luck started to happen for the family and it was attributed to having a black Jesus in the house. Well needless to say the impression that it left on me was that Jesus was a black man and you could tell me no different. I mean after reading the description and hearing Michael on the show reading it I really thought I had a bead on this Jesus thing but I have to admit that I was totally wrong. Phillip has broke it down into who Jesus really is and what he can do and who he does it for.
             Israel was God's nation he promised them in the Abrahamic Covenant that the nation would be safe as long as they obeyed the will of him and not worship idol gods. But Israel always had a problem keeping that commandment. So, God who created matter took shape within it as an artist might become a spot on a painting or a playwright a character within his own play. God wrote a story, only using real characters, on the pages of real history. The Word became flesh. God became tired of what had been going on so he decided to enact his way on the ...