Philip Yancey's book The Jesus I Never Knew shows primarily his two views of Jesus. ... The book looks three aspects of Jesus. ... Yancey notes that Jesus' genealogy is traced back to Abraham, the founder of Israel; Jesus was circumcised according to Jewish custom; and he worshiped in the Jewish temple. ... They did not believe Jesus was the Messiah because he did not seek to become a king, and rather than freeing the Jews, he preached that they were somehow already blessed. ... Yancey describes the sermon on the mount as as a guilt-inducing and irrational set of ideals and notes tha...

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