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Summary of the Bible

by

Jesus of Nazareth

Web Publication by Mountain Man Graphics, Australia in the Southern Autumn of 1996


Introduction

I have read the contents of the bible a number of times in entirety, and referred to certain resources within it on many occasions. As the rest of this website will attest, I have also researched at length a number of other religious texts which have been manifest about the terrestrial planetary environment in the last few thousand years.

As everyone is entitled to their own opinion, it has occurred to me to express mine in no uncertain terms concerning the proliferation of western religious knowledge, and the words contained in what is traditionally accepted to be the standard Christian religious text of the traditional Western culture - also known as The Holy Bible.

Perhaps the most daunting task faced by the students of life today, is the tremendous proliferation of information in the world. How may it all be placed into perspective? How may it be structured and indexed, sorted and summarised? This task, however daunting it may seem to be, must be approached - irrespective of the subject matter of the research project.

How does one summarise the contents of this particular ancient compendium of texts? I have often asked myself this question. How may the entire contents of the bible be summarised into a few short phrases? Or, put in another fashion, if you could only retain a fragment of the text - a simple few verses - which fragment would you choose to retain, and who would be the author of those words?

For what it is worth, I have meditated at length upon this particular question, and have gradually - over the years - been convinced that an answer is indeed forthcoming. Therefore, I have decided to publish this Summary of the Entire Contents of the Holy Bible - by Jesus Christ of Nazareth for it is my contention that the nature of this summary is instructive in a number of ways:

Presented for your webulous edification.

Peace.


PRF Brown
BCSLS {Freshwater}
Mountain Man Graphics, Australia


LogoforMountainManGraphics,Australia

Summary of the Bible

by

Jesus of Nazareth


"THOU SHALT LOVE
the Lord thy God
with all thy heart
and with all the soul
and with all thy mind.

This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it:

THOU SHALT LOVE
thy neighbour as thyself.

On these two commandments hang all the law and prophets."


Further Web References

The Sermon on the Mount - The Discourse of Jesus to the multitudes.

Bible Concordance - A Search Engine for the text of the scripture.

King James Bible - just one site containing the full text.

Gospel of Thomas - known as the coptic gospel of Didymos Judas Thomas, this text was probably first written in Greek (or possibly even Syriac or Aramaic) sometime between the mid 1st and 2nd centuries. The Gospel of Thomas is a collection of traditional Sayings (logoi) of Jesus. In form, it is simply a list of 114 Sayings, in no particular order. A selection of these is presented hereunder, and the link above will fetch the complete work. Although it is not possible to attribute this "Gospel of Thomas" to any particular sect or religious group, it is clearly Gnostic in nature. These are supposedly the "secret sayings" of Jesus, and are intended to be esoteric in nature. The Sayings are not intended to be interpreted literally, as their New Testament parallels (written afterwards) often are, but to be interpreted symbolically, as is attested by the first Saying:

Noncanonical Homepage - Welsey Center, US: A collection of the non_canonical documents not included in the bible.

Early Church Documents - Ecole Initiative: a repository of translated primary sources for the bible.

The Gnostic Society Virtual Library - An extensive resource of gnostic material, texts and references on the web.

The Gnosis Archive - Another repository of gnostic information ... summaries, current writings and links

The Gospel of Buddha - complied from ancient records by Dr. Paul Carus, USA, 1894.

The Prophet Muhammad - An Outline of the Life of the founder of Islam.

The Soul of the Indian - an interpretation of Dr Charles Eastman, published in 1911.

The Rig Veda - the earliest (3700 BC) of recorded teachings concerning the nature of man.


LogoforMountainManGraphics,Australia

Summary of the Bible

by

Jesus of Nazareth


"THOU SHALT LOVE
the Lord thy God
with all thy heart
and with all the soul
and with all thy mind.

This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it:

THOU SHALT LOVE
thy neighbour as thyself.

On these two commandments hang all the law and prophets."

Web Publication by Mountain Man Graphics, Australia in the Southern Autumn of 1996