The New Gospel

By extracting Q from the pages of the traditional Gospels, historians have uncovered the missing link between Judaism and Christianity.  In a sense, the Lost Gospel Q is pre-Christian.  It was later writers who added the details about Jesus’ life and death that became the bedrock of Christian belief.  Jesus in the Lost Gospel Q is neither Christ nor the Messiah but rather the last in a long line of Jewish prophets.  He is a charismatic teacher, a healer, a simple man filled with the spirit of God.  Jesus is also a sage, the personification of Wisdom, cast in the tradition of King Solomon.

… Christians throughout the centuries have continued to experience Jesus as a living spiritual reality, a figure of the present, not simply a memory from the past.  These experiences (then and now) have taken a variety of forms such as visions and mystical experiences, and less dramatic forms such as a sense of the presence of Jesus — whether in prayer, worship, the Eucharist, in other people, or in the dailyness of our lives.  The truth of Easter is grounded in these experiences, not in what happened (or didn’t happen) on a particular Sunday almost two thousand years ago.