The Lessons of Jesus
Book One · The Real Story · Contents

The forty lessons

Read them in order. Each one depends on the one before it. New here? Start with How to Use This Book.

Before the lessons

Start here

How each lesson works, and three promises before we start.

  1. iHow to Use This Book
Unit One

Who I Actually Was

The country, the debt, the prophets, the table, the healings, and why the state killed me for it.

  1. 1One Word That Was Changed
  2. 2My Name Was Not Jesus
  3. 3The Country I Grew Up In
  4. 4The Story I Was Raised On
  5. 5The Angry Men I Learned From
  6. 6The Man in the River
  7. 7What I Meant by "The Kingdom"
  8. 8Who I Ate With
  9. 9The Healings
  10. 10Did I Think I Was a King?
  11. 11What "Sin" Meant to Me
  12. 12Why Rome Killed Me
Unit Two

What Happened After I Died

What happened to my message in the first three hundred years, before there was anything you would recognize as a church.

  1. 13Where Your Bible Came From
  2. 14The Man Who Never Met Me
  3. 15The Letters He Did Not Write
  4. 16They Called My Brother a Heretic
  5. 17The Comma
  6. 18The Emperor Takes Over
Unit Three

What Got Changed

Four specific ideas that were swapped into the story later. Each one has a date attached to it.

  1. 19The God Who Needed to Be Paid
  2. 20The Word "Saved"
  3. 21Where Hell Came From
  4. 22My Face
Unit Four

What Got Built With It

The twenty centuries built on top of my story, told in order, and the people in every century who read it right anyway.

  1. 23When the Church Became the Landlord
  2. 24Everything at Once
  3. 25Selling the Afterlife
  4. 26The World Is Taken
  5. 27The Church Splits, and the Poor Lose Again
  6. 28The Women They Burned
  7. 29The Long Argument About Slavery
  8. 30The Book With Exodus Taken Out
  9. 31What Was Done to My People
  10. 32The Last Hundred Years
Unit Five

The Church You Sit In Now

The same method, turned on your own church, right now.

  1. 33What I Would Keep
  2. 34The Newest Thing in the Room
  3. 35What Is Preached Now
  4. 36The Flag
  5. 37The Poor, Made Into a Category
  6. 38I Would Not Be Admitted
  7. 39The Corner
  8. 40It Was Never Complicated
After the lessons

The back of the book

Every added doctrine with the date it arrived, and two thousand years on one line.

  1. ·The Audit
  2. ·The Timeline