1. The gospel is: the fact of the fatherhood of God, coupled with the truth of the sonship-brotherhood of men. (UB 194:0.4).
2. Unintentionally, some facts associated with the gospel were substituted for the gospel message. (UB 194:0.3).
3. Only baptism was required for admission to the Jesus brotherhood. (UB 194:4.9).
4. The Lord’s Supper was celebrated at the end of a fellowship meal. (UB 194:4.8).
5. At Pentecost, Peter really founded the Christian church. (UB 195:0.1).
6. Paul’s adaptations of Jesus’ gospel were superior to all other religions. (UB 121:5.13).
7. Philo’s teachings had considerable influence on Paul. (UB 121:6.5).
8. It was the second century before Greco-Roman culture turned to Christianity. (UB 195:0.4).
9. The Christians made shrewd bargains with the pagans, but did not do so well with the Mithraics. (UB 195:0.11).
10. The early plan of Christian worship followed the synagogue and Mithraic rituals. (UB 195:3.6).

1. The Christian concept of God combines three ideas.

1. Hebrew concept — God a vindicator of moral values — a righteous God.
2. Greek concept — God as a unifier — a God of wisdom.
3. Jesus’ concept — God as a living friend, a loving Father. (UB 5:4.10).

2. Christianity is a religion about Jesus, modified by much theology. (UB 92:6.18).
3. Early Christianity and Mithraism had many things in common. (UB 98:6.3).
4. Paul’s theology was based on Jesus’ life, but was also influenced by the Greeks and the Stoics. (UB 121:7.7).
5. Christ becomes the creed of the new fellowship. (UB 194:4.6).
6. Abner’s more authentic version of the gospel made little progress. (UB 195:1.11).

1. The Greek Stephen’s death led to the organization of the first church at Jerusalem. (UB 194:4.12).
2. Greek culture was quick to embrace Christianity as a new and better religion. (UB 195:1.5).
3. Christians accepted the Roman Empire; the empire adopted Christianity. (UB 195:3.1).
4. Conditions at Rome were favorable for the adoption of a new religion. (UB 195:3.2).
5. The church, becoming an adjunct of society and an ally of politics, was doomed to suffer during the “dark ages.” (UB 195:4.1).

1. Viewing what Christianity has endured indicates great inherent vitality. (UB 195:4.4).
2. Christianity now faces the gigantic struggle between the secular and the spiritual. (UB 195:4.5).
3. Religion needs new leaders — men who will depend solely on the incomparable teachings of Jesus. (UB 195:9.4).
4. The hour is striking for the rediscovery of the original foundations of Christianity. (UB 195:9.5).
5. Christianity has become a social and cultural movement as well as a religion. (UB 195:9.11).
6. Christianity is handicapped because it sponsors a society which staggers under a tremendous overload of materialism. (UB 195:10.20).
7. Christianity is threatened by the doom of one of its own slogans: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” (UB 195:10.11).
8. But Christianity contains enough of the teachings of Jesus to immortalize it. (UB 195:10.18).
9. The hope of Christianity is that it shall learn anew the greatest of all truths — the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. (UB 195:10.21).

1. If man were only a machine, he could not formulate his materialistic concepts. (UB 195:7.3).
2. Machines do not struggle to find God nor strive to be like him. (UB 195:7.14).
3. Man exhibits the control attributes of mind and the creative qualities of spirit. (UB 195:7.9).
4. Religion is not so much concerned with science, morality, and philosophy — as it is with the scientist, the moralist, and the philosopher. (UB 195:7.18).

1. Secularism broke the bonds of church control, and now threatens to establish a new and godless control of men. (UB 195:8.1).
2. World wars are the result of overdoing the secularistic revolt. (UB 195:8.13).
3. Secularism discards ethics and religion for politics and power. (UB 195:8.11).
4. Materialism denies God, secularism simply ignores him. (UB 195:8.5).
5. The majority of Christians are unwittingly secularists. (UB 195:8.3).

1. Jesus is the new and living way whereby man comes into his divine inheritance. (UB 101:6.17).
2. Men evade the religion of Jesus for fear of what it will do to them and with them. (UB 195:9.6).
3. The apostles were demoralized by the Master’s death. (UB 194:4.1).
4. Comes the resurrection — God is no longer a doctrine in their minds; he has become a living presence in their souls. (UB 194:4.2).
5. Paul’s Christianity made sure of the divine Christ, but almost wholly lost sight of the human Jesus. (UB 196:2.4).
6. Jesus founded a religion of personal experience in doing the will of God; Paul founded a religion for the worship of the glorified and risen Christ. (UB 196:2.5).
7. Jesus did not found the Christian church, but he has fostered it. (UB 195:10.9).
8. The Oriental peoples do not know that there is a religion of Jesus as well as a religion about Jesus. (UB 195:10.15).
9. The time is ripe for the figurative resurrection of the human Jesus from the burial tomb of theologic traditions and religious dogmas. (UB 196:1.2).
10. You can preach a religion about Jesus, but you must live the religion of Jesus. (UB 196:2.1).
11. The New Testament is a superb Christian document, but it is only meagerly Jesusonian. (UB 196:2.1).