ve correctly,
how best to meet each situation, what action is suited to the occasion.
Jesus did not tell us what to do. His sayings are interpreted in many
different ways. He failed to predict the needs of the future.

Jesus did not explain relations between man and wife, nor between
employer and employee, nor how to educate children, nor how to preserve
health, nor how to make a living, nor how to prevent war, poverty and
suffering. Jesus gave little practical information, and his spiritual
advice was not clearly enough expressed to enable man to apply it to
modern conditions. Jesus neglected to instruct people how to live. His
knowledge of the world was less than that of the average American
citizen.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Matt. xxi, 18-19.

[2] Mark xi, 13.

[3] Mark xi, 20-23.

[4] Matt. xviii, 15-17.

[5] Matt. x, 33.

[6] Mark iii, 29.

[7] Matt. xii, 34.

[8] Matt. xxiii, 15.

[9] Matt. xxiii, 33.

[10] John viii, 55.

[11] John x, 8.

[12] Matt. xxiii, 17.

[13] Matt. viii, 28-34; Mark v, 13; Luke viii, 26-34.

[14] Luke xiv, 26.

[15] John xi, 26.

[16] John viii, 24.

[17] John viii, 12.

[18] John x, 36.

[19] John xi, 25.

[20] Luke ii, 48.

[21] Luke xi, 37-40.

[22] John ii, 4.

[23] Mark vii, 25-29.

[24] Matt. viii, 21-22.

[25] Matt. xvi, 23.

[26] Luke xvi, 1-9.

[27] Matt. xxiv, 7-13.

[28] Luke vi, 21.

[29] Matt. vi, 25-34.

[30] Matt. vii, 12.

[31] Matt. xxvi, 24.

[32] Matt. xxvi, 56.

[33] John viii, 59.

[34] Matt. xii, 14-15.

[35] Luke xxii, 42.

[36] Luke xxii, 44.

[37] John xii, 23-27.

[38] Mark xv, 34.

[39] Matt. xix, 17.

CONCLUSION

The historicity of Jesus has been discussed in many books and pamphlets.
Whether Jesus lived or not depends upon what is meant by that phrase. If
one is satisfied that there was a peripatetic philosopher named Jesus
who was the son of a woman named Mary and who lived and taught around
Jerusalem, uttering some, but not all, of the words attributed to him,
then Jesus may be said to have lived. There can be no serious objection
to the acceptance of that Jesus as an actual personage even though he
was ignored by secular historians and though the time and place of his
birth and death are in doubt.

On the other hand, if there never was such a person as the Jesus
described in the New Testament--a man born of a virgin, superior to
natural laws, able to walk on the water, and change the cou