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CAN WE OBEY OUR WAY INTO HEAVEN?
I have written two books. The first is called "Can We Obey Our Way Into Heaven?" The book begins by challenging what we think we can know by faith and what we can know by reason. It proposes that all human choices are driven by a desire for happiness but that the human understanding of happiness is not the abiding happiness that only selfless love can provide. The book then points to two mountain-top experiences where God reveals how selfless love can lead to abiding happiness. The first revelation took place when Moses encountered God on Mount Sinai. The second took place on an unnamed mountain in Galilee where God, in the person of Jesus, explained the true meaning of the Law that God presented to Moses at Sinai. We have come to know that explanation as The Sermon on the Mount.
What Are We Then To Do?
"What Are We Then To Do?" builds on the themes started in "Can We Obey Our Way Into Heaven?" and illustrates how early Christian communities incorporated both the Law of Moses and Jesus' explanation of that Law in the Sermon on the Mount into their daily lives. The book honestly discusses the issues encountered by early Christianity as it began to incorporate Gentiles into its communities. It also offers explanations about how many of those difficulties were resolved including a surprising illustration of how Roman efficiency may have helped to maintain Christian unity.
The book then details how the main branches of modern Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism differ in their understanding of how Jesus' teachings and the role that those teachings played in the salvation of human souls. The book ends with a discussion of three events that played a significant role in changing the way that Christianity began to understand itself and how it presented itself to the world.
The book then details how the main branches of modern Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism differ in their understanding of how Jesus' teachings and the role that those teachings played in the salvation of human souls. The book ends with a discussion of three events that played a significant role in changing the way that Christianity began to understand itself and how it presented itself to the world.
