[Superman]

Be careful what you read. Images in paintings might be interesting, but if this is the strength of evidence offered, then I would say a green cheese moon is probably at least as defensible. Again, be careful. Another thing I might point out is that, aside from Church stuff, the characters in the Jesus story are historical, factual persons. So I just wonder about an author who claims to understand these characters more intimately than people who lived withing 200 years of the characters themselves. In other words now, 2000 years after the fact, someone seems to be saying that what we know, which is based on what we knew shortly after the events took place, is not accurate but what the author knows 2000 years after the fact, is more accurate. Hmmmmm.

Sure, the Church is not perfect. But frankly I have better things to do with my time than chase down rumours of Christ and Mary M. getting married, settling in France and having children.

I guess it comes down to this: The world is separated (at least from the perspective of Christianity) into two groups. One group believes Jesus was who he said he was, the Son of God. The other group believes that whole story is a manipulated hoax. Is this book helping you move to a conclusion that the story is a hoax? You wanna go there?