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It's impossible to understand "Zealot" without looking at the author's rejection of Jesus as he is shown in the scriptures.

"I wouldn't call myself a Christian because I do not believe that Jesus is God, nor do I believe that he ever thought that he was God, or that he ever said that he was God," he recently said in an interview with NPR. The author drove these ideals home by plainly outlining his beliefs. Generally speaking, this is consistent with the Islamic view of Christ, as he is seen as a messenger and not God's son (while Muslims do not believe that Jesus was crucified, Aslan does, indeed, embrace this notion). Perhaps most controversially - and piggybacking off of this latter claim - Aslan holds that Christ never considered himself a deity, calling into question central Biblical tenets. The New Testament says Jesus's crucifixion was a cruelly special punishment for a man who sacrificed himself for humanity's sins, but history tells us that he was no different from "any other criminal who hangs on a cross." This was sedition and the punishment was crucifixion. With that sweeping gesture, Jesus's message was simple: the land didn't belong to Rome but to God, and it was time for Caesar to concede power to Hossana, the real King of Jews. His views and the accusations being waged against him are complex, so TheBlaze consulted with a number of Christian experts to better understand them.īefore we get into the finer details, let's look at some of the author's more divisive and contentious claims. Some of the conclusions Aslan comes to in the book are frustrating followers of Jesus who contend that the academic is misrepresenting facts and recycling old and debunked theories and ideas generally embraced by Islamic adherents. Since its release, though, controversy has abounded - and for good reason. Reza Aslan has sparked a plethora of controversy with his new book, " Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth." The author, a Muslim, says he penned the book in an effort to shed light on the Christian savior's life.

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