We also see that only through faith can faith be found. People try to find faith through miracles. The book shows that this is not what God wants from us. He wants us to have faith and believe and through believing would we be able to have miracles. .
They are many that have drawn pictures of Jesus and how they believe he should look. In many occasions he is depicted as this tall blue eyed fair looking man, but who is to say that this is what the people of that time saw, as there is no description as to how Jesus actually looked. The only description that can be accounted for is the prediction by Abraham. Which depicts Jesus as a man that you would not recognize as the Son of God. Even john the baptist said that "if not for his sermons he would not recognize him as the Son of God". The book also goes on to show that Jesus did not really associate with the more outstanding citizens but with the citizens that were not of royalty. People such as priest and governors. The holy people such as the Pharisee and the Essenians did not approve of Jesus and his teachings. Coming on to the last week of Jesus" life the book give a description of some of the events that took place the triumphal entry, the last supper, Betrayal, Gethseman!.
e and the trials. It goes on to look at the fact that people today call themselves Christians celebrate Christmas, but yet don't believe in the resurrection. It goes on to show the significance of the resurrection and the role that Easter plays in it all. .
An old adage says, "God created man in His own image and man has been returning the favor ever since." Philip Yancey realized that despite a lifetime attending Sunday school topped off by a Bible college education, he really had no idea who Jesus was. In fact, he found himself further and further removed from the person of Jesus, distracted instead by flannel-graph figures and intellectual inspection.
