One World One God

This work has been written for the glorification of the solitary, non-sectarian God above all worldwide titular deities. The vision of this insuperable cosmic force is seen through secular and spiritual lenses, using a faith/reason approach in giving "Unto religion that which is spiritual, and unto science those biblical proclamations which have been trumped by science.” The author does not concur that every word in the Bible is the sacrosanct Word of God, nor that such miracles as the Immaculate Conception, feeding the five hundred and raising Lazarus, etc. actually occurred as recorded. Rather, it is postulated by the author that those Old Testament compilations of ancient Hebrew lore by the first century scribes and prophets, so eloquently dramatizing their fifteen hundred year legacy, has filtered down by oral transmition through the twelve tribes - dating back from the days of Abraham and Sarah. The New Testament, while written in the highly imaginative prose of the first century, lacks depth in providing virtually little, if any, biographical data on the life of Jesus Christ, who left no writings of his own for posterity to corroborate the portrayal of his words, thoughts and deeds during the last three years of his life. As these are related so devotedly and passionately by the Evangelists of the Four Gospels and the Epistles of Saint Paul, there can be little doubt that these expressions of faith were driven by strong belief in what they were writing. While much in the Gospels hangs upon fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy, we have a series of incidents in the travels of Jesus and his quoted words (particularly his parables) that must have been grounded in fact, there are other areas where fact may well have been partly subordinated to embellishment by the fertile imaginations of the chroniclers.