John Clayton Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for.”

“Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.”

“Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?”

“Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?”

“I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.”

“Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.”

“The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.”

“What is the origin of God?”

“The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.”

“Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?”