Between Us – The New Testament

By Rev. Dr. Clyde Grubbs, October 28, 2025

Mystery? Controversy? What is called the New Testament is a collection of writings that raise more questions than they answer.

Christianity is the largest religion in the world and has had a major shaping influence on the culture and psyche of the United States. Yet its scriptures are a collection of writings written more than two thousand years ago and decades after the death of Jesus the Christ, who is central to the Christian story. Jesus lived and died in the Roman colony called Palestine, or Judea, but all of the writings about Jesus are written elsewhere, and all are written in Greek, a language Jesus and his followers didn’t know or understand.

There were other writings about Jesus the Christ, and they were not included in the that collection of writings which many call the New Testament. Why?

The Christians call the Hebrew Scriptures the Old Testament and consider them authoritative, yet there is a four-hundred-year gap between these collections of writings.

Finally, the writings included in these Christian scriptures contradict each other, raising many questions and inviting deep controversy.