My last theological book was published in December 2023 and entitled The Gospel Corrupted: When Jesus Was Made God. It is a 118-page primer for my in-depth The Restitution: Biblical Proof Jesus Is Not God. It is 570 pages and cites over 400 scholars. I have eight endorsements on The Restitution, and one of them is by Stephen Hill. He is a Christadelphian Church minister in South Australia. The Christadelphians believe as I do—Jesus is Savior and Lord, but not God.
Yet that is not what I always believed. I was a Trinitarian Christian for 22 years and then read myself out of it in the Bible. For the next 28 years, I studied this subject most intensely. I estimate that during that time, I read about 1,000 books on the identity of Jesus. And I looked at even more Bible commentaries in libraries. Then I finished and published The Restitution of Jesus Christ in 2008. In 2023, I changed its title and abandoned my pseudonym Servetus the Evangelical. Yet the book’s content remained the same, so it is not a second edition.
The back cover of The Restitution has four, single-line endorsements by Bible scholars. Their entire blurbs (as they are called in book publishing), along with four others, appear in the book on its first two pages. One of the four others is by Stephen Hill. He has just now endorsed The Gospel Corrupted as well. Below are his two endorsements:
The Restitution: Biblical Proof Jesus Is Not God
“Kermit Zarley has provided an unequalled analysis and comprehensive resource on a study of the nature of Jesus Christ. His book is over 580 pages long and has a bibliography of over 400 authors. Virtually every verse in the Bible (Old and New Testaments) that has ever been used in an attempt to demonstrate that Jesus is God is examined in depth. . . . The clear and simple truth regarding Jesus Christ that he was and is a man, the Son of God, the Messiah of Israel—not a divine being or God—is amply demonstrated (e.g., John 17:3; 1 Cor. 8:4, 6; Eph.4:4-6). It may surprise some that Jesus never actually directly claimed to be God.
“All Bible students including Christadelphians like me will appreciate the thoroughness of Zarley’s expositions and his extensive references to recognised experts in language and history. As a resource for difficult passages of Scripture, ‘Restitution’ is probably unequalled. His longest chapter is on John’s gospel—118 pages. Well-known . . . verses such as John 1:1, 1:18, and 20:28 are dealt with in detail.
“Since mainstream Christianity holds the doctrine of the trinity as essential to salvation, Zarley’s book, The Restitution, is controversial; but if correct, it exposes the world-wide and almost universal fundamental error held by most Christians. His examination of the history of Christology (99 pages) amply demonstrates how this disastrous change occurred. Zarley has therefore done us a great service in dispelling the mystery (and the mist!) surrounding the Bible’s teaching on the nature of Jesus Christ.”
The Gospel Corrupted: When Jesus Was Made God
“Kermit Zarley’s new book, The Gospel Corrupted: When Jesus Was Made God, is a welcome addition to his writings, and it is a helpful introduction to his earlier, and more detailed, The Restitution: Biblical Proof Jesus Is Not God. In unravelling the so-called mystery of the Trinity, Zarley has presented a clear, straight-forward exposition of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He has exposed the slow and gradual corruption of the Gospel over the centuries after the Apostles of Jesus Christ. There is enough ‘meat’ in the book to satisfy Bible students without overwhelming the reader with complex theology. The Apostle Paul stated that there is a false-gospel (Galatians 1:6-9) so it is incumbent on every Christian to identify it and accept only the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. Zarley’s work is a clear exposé of what many Christians have been told to believe.”
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