Jesus of Nazareth was fully, 100% human
But the fact of his humanity is often overshadowed by the other most basic Christian belief about Him. Through this man God became one of us, who died, but rose again. If we can get beyond this paradox of faith and focus on the Son of Man as a flesh-and-blood, body-and-soul human being, Jesus’s humanity becomes intriguing.
All sorts of questions about Christ’s life and choices fairly leap out from the gospels:
- What were Jesus’s personal loves, and how were these loves resolved?
- Where did this greatest of all teachers obtain the practical, down-to-earth knowledge of a workaday world – and of the loves and loathings, hopes and fears of ordinary people – that he so brilliantly works into his parables and lessons?
- Jesus came to bridge the separation between God and all men and women, but also to defeat Satan and Death. What was the balance and interaction between the Messiah’s parallel missions?
- How accurate were the Old Testament predictions to which Jesus referred so often, and how well did he fulfill them?
- How could God want his only Son to die the cruelest death that men of that time could inflict? And what drove the Lamb of God to lay down his power over nature and accept that death?
The Spirit War presents proposals of possible answers to the preceding questions.
The Trilogy provides scripture footnotes along the way, for those interested in how the biblical writings are woven into the story. But this is neither a scholarly nor a formally religious work. The Spirit War can be read and enjoyed without an accompanying bible.
In writing on such a sacred subject in a modern way, this author assumes a double burden of respect.
The first and ultimate respect must be to the real characters in the story. Jesus as the Word, Gabriel and Michael existed before time. And Jesus the man, the Blessed Mother, Mary Magdalene, Joseph, John the Baptizer, Longinus and Peter all walked our Earth. This trilogy was written with the possibility in this author’s mind, of coming face to face some day with each of these special persons.
The second burden of respect is to the tale itself – this most magnificent of all love stories and mysteries that also deserves to be a great read. My goal in writing The Spirit War is to bring, to believers and non-believers alike, a work in which the telling is worthy of the subject matter.
Fernando Quirós