{"product":{"product_id":"0061778184","title":"How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee","price":"44.33","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41+Pb-Nv1iL._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061778184"},"comments":[{"body":"I recommend Bart Ehrman's book \"How Jesus Became God\".\r\n\r\n\u0026gt;The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus’s lifetime—and it is not what Jesus claimed about himself. How Jesus Became God tells the story of an idea that shaped Christianity, and of the evolution of a belief that looked very different in the fourth century than it did in the first.\r\n\r\nI listened to the Audible version.\r\n\r\n[How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee](https://www.amazon.ca/How-Jesus-Became-God-Exaltation/dp/0061778184)","subreddit_name":"exmormon","author":"Aud4c1ty"},{"body":"I recommend looking into Bart Ehrman's books. Dude used to be a Christian, now he is a secular (agnostic?) professor of religious studies. He's written a lot about the historical Jesus and early Christianity. He's interested in it purely from an academic perspective and has no interest in converting or deconverting anyone. You might want to start with [How Jesus Became God](https://www.amazon.com/How-Jesus-Became-God-Exaltation/dp/0061778184?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_dls\u0026amp;dplnkId=5e55432a-14d4-450a-bddc-31443b60e50b), since it will answer the question you asked here, but any of his books are a good read.","subreddit_name":"religiousfruitcake","author":"blobbychuck"},{"body":"How sure are you that the Gospels are faithful accounts of who Jesus really was?  They were written decades after Jesus died, in a language neither he or his disciples spoke (Greek).\r\n\r\nJesus was likely an apocalyptic preacher who gained a following, and then his following grew and evolved via oral tradition in the decades after he died before the Gospels were actually written down.\r\n\r\nBart Ehrman is considered a preeminent scholar on the historical Jesus.  He explores this topic in “How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee.”\r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.com/How-Jesus-Became-God-Exaltation/dp/0061778184#","subreddit_name":"religion","author":"Noppers"},{"body":"Now. I got you. Because Ehrman wrote a full book on this subject.\r\nhttps://www.amazon.com/How-Jesus-Became-God-Exaltation/dp/0061778184#:~:text=From%20the%20Back%20Cover\u0026amp;text=of%20all%20things.-,Ehrman%20sketches%20Jesus's%20transformation%20from%20a%20human%20prophet%20to%20the,from%20Galilee%2C%20had%20become%20God.","subreddit_name":"DebateAnAtheist","author":"pookah870"},{"body":"I go buy thousands of hours of research.  Not from experience.\r\n\r\nJesus doesn’t talk about Hell for example. The Bible turns Jesus into God while ignoring his teachings\r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/0061778184/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_N1NFP5ZHCZWVN32TGY33\r\n\r\nHere’s a great book about Jesus and how he was made into God. They cite sources to","subreddit_name":"Christianity","author":"MechaCryptozilla"},{"body":"see Bart Ehrman's [How Jesus became God](https://www.amazon.com/How-Jesus-Became-God-Exaltation/dp/0061778184)\r\n\r\nHe argues that Jesus gradually became more divine as time went on from being a typical faith healer in Mark to full blown God in John... Though I would disagree with this as even John holds back from saying he IS GOD.... the reading of John 1:1 is typically translated as the WORD WAS GOD but the greek can also mean a god or divine and unitarian christians have seen it that way from before  the trinity formerly existed.","subreddit_name":"AcademicBiblical","author":"jiohdi1960"},{"body":"Bart Ehrman, \"How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee\" \r\n\r\n#  [How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee: Ehrman, Bart D.: 9780061778186: Amazon.com: Books](https://www.amazon.com/How-Jesus-Became-God-Exaltation/dp/0061778184) \r\n\r\n\u0026amp;#x200B;\r\n\r\nHighly recommend this book.  Ehrman attempts to reconstruct the time period from the crucifixion to where it ended up as orthodox belief like what is widely believed today.","subreddit_name":"AcademicBiblical","author":"qaelith2112"},{"body":"If you check the sources at the bottom of that Wikipedia article, there are actually a bunch of books written by historians that apply critical historical methods in attempt to suss out the life of Jesus. Granted, the only books I've read personally  (but can recommend highly) are by Bart D. Ehrman. If you only read one, I would recommend: [How Jesus Became God](https://www.amazon.com/How-Jesus-Became-God-Exaltation/dp/0061778184) . But there are other good authors too: Craig A Evans and Bruce Chilton I know have written several books and are cited in that Wikipedia article.   \r\n\r\n\r\nEssentially though, what it comes down to is looking for historical sources that couldn't be influenced by each other that reference the same fact and give the same details. If there are enough of these references, the reasonable conclusion is that they are either true or the author genuinely believed them to be true based on some source of information common to the other unrelated sources.\r\n\r\n\u0026amp;#x200B;\r\n\r\nApplying that type of critical method to stories about Jesus is difficult ( and in many cases impossible) to do given that by 300-400 CE there were so many Christian religious texts floating around. But there were Roman, Greek, and Jewish/Palestinian historians that existed during that time and enough of them mentioned those facts I listed that historians largely agree that the notion that a Galilean Jew named Jesus existed, was baptized by John the Baptist and later executed by crucifixion for being politically subversive is pretty much a foregone conclusion as people who had never heard of Christianity had written about it before even the first known copies of the Gospels were making their way through the Mediterranean region.","subreddit_name":"InfowarriorRides","author":"aaron__ireland"},{"body":"one of the foremost seminary scholar in modern times Bart Ehrman wrote this book recently [How Jesus became God](https://www.amazon.com/How-Jesus-Became-God-Exaltation/dp/0061778184)\r\n\r\nThe claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus’s lifetime—and it is not what Jesus claimed about himself. How Jesus Became God tells the story of an idea that shaped Christianity, and of the evolution of a belief that looked very different in the fourth century than it did in the first.\r\n\r\nA master explainer of Christian history, texts, and traditions, Ehrman reveals how an apocalyptic prophet from the backwaters of rural Galilee crucified for crimes against the state came to be thought of as equal with the one God Almighty, Creator of all things. But how did he move from being a Jewish prophet to being God? In a book that took eight years to research and write, Ehrman sketches Jesus’s transformation from a human prophet to the Son of God exalted to divine status at his resurrection. Only when some of Jesus’s followers had visions of him after his death—alive again—did anyone come to think that he, the prophet from Galilee, had become God. And what they meant by that was not at all what people mean today.\r\n\r\nWritten for secular historians of religion and believers alike, How Jesus Became God will engage anyone interested in the historical developments that led to the affirmation at the heart of Christianity: Jesus was, and is, God.","subreddit_name":"Bible","author":"jiohdi1960"},{"body":"Not intending to change your view here. Just wanted to comment on the following:\r\n\r\n\u0026gt;The fact that we are judged if we don't follow God denotes that humans weren't really bestowed with freedom; our fates were already determined: follow Him or face consequences. \r\n\r\nYou might be interested in Bart Ehrman's [How Jesus Became God](https://www.amazon.com/How-Jesus-Became-God-Exaltation/dp/0061778184). In one chapter of the book Erhman said that, historically, religion was never about policing people's morals in order for them to gain access to an afterlife (e.g. \"be saved or be damned\"). The premise of an eternal life was only an innovation that gained ground during the early years of Christianity, something which was discussed in great detail in that book.\r\n\r\n(That, among others, is why the book was titled \"How Jesus Became God\"...it did not address the question of whether Jesus is god or not, but discusses *how* that came to be.)","subreddit_name":"Philippines","author":"chocolatemeringue"},{"body":"I got zero Mormon theology in me.  Well respected biblical scholars agree - it all came later. \r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Jesus-Became-Bart-Ehrman/dp/0061778184\r\n\r\nThere would have been zero need for a the council of Nicea if it weren’t a big topic for the prior 300 years. \r\n\r\n","subreddit_name":"exmormon","author":"Tuna_Surprise"},{"body":"Indeed. A good read is [How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee](https://www.amazon.com/How-Jesus-Became-God-Exaltation/dp/0061778184) which explores how gods and myths came about, merged and how, if he existed, jesus was likely some minor priest who was turned into the god of the religion.  Quite an interesting read.","subreddit_name":"australia","author":"willun"},{"body":"If you want a complete answer, [this book by Bart Ehrman](http://www.amazon.com/How-Jesus-Became-God-Exaltation/dp/0061778184) is a good read. In short, no, the trinity is not in the Bible. Jesus being, in a sense, divine, is. The church needed some way of reconciling a divine Jesus with a not-Yahweh Jesus, and still be monotheists. There were a number of competing views, and the trinity won out.","subreddit_name":"exjw","author":"opinionmill"},{"body":"no thank you, when jesus was crucified did he rise from the dead and slaughtered all the people who crucified him? We dont solve our turmoil by slaughtering. You should research more about the history roman catholic. heres a book for you to start with: http://www.amazon.com/How-Jesus-Became-God-Exaltation/dp/0061778184","subreddit_name":"Philippines","author":"klovskiee"},{"body":"If you haven't yet you should check out Bart Ehrman's books on Jesus. They're pretty interesting scholarly takes on who he was and how he became deified. Helped me a lot to sort out my feelings on this issue. \r\n\r\nAmazon link: http://www.amazon.com/How-Jesus-Became-God-Exaltation/dp/0061778184/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1424715575\u0026amp;sr=8-1\u0026amp;keywords=Bart+Ehrman%27s","subreddit_name":"exmormon","author":"CrimeThink101"}]}