Table of Contents

Go to Prologue

Belief is always an iffy proposition — precisely the huge difference between believing and knowing. To really know God, faith itself can be a formidable stumbling block.

The prologue challenges the idea that truth requires belief, faith, or uncertainty to exist. Truth works best when it is absolutely known — plain and without ceremony. If that premise unsettles you, that reaction is crucial. It means you’re listening.

Go to Introduction

“Jesus died for your sins” is one of the most repeated phrases in Christianity — and yet Christian dogma makes it difficult for anyone to take this saying literally.

The introduction lays out the book’s core claim. Five “wonderfully simple” yet crucial words of Jesus (RANSOM, AWAY, PERFECT, FREEDOM and ALL) have been buried to the world. Consequentially, Jesus’ revolutionary concept (taking… AWAY… the sin of the world) remains nonexistent. We now have 2000 years of Christianity behind us, and… what great change in humanity has occurred? ALL the sin of the world is still here. Could The Church itself be what stopped the Jesus Concept from happening? The truthful answer is alarming.

What follows is not an argument for stronger belief, but a challenge to completely reconsider what we have been taught to believe.

Go to Chapter 1

The cross doesn’t need additions, deletions, nor theological upgrades. It simply needs to be taken at face value. What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross is complete. The stagnation that followed didn’t come from Jesus nor from the Wheat that he left for us; rather, it comes from a Weed infestation (the very thing he predicted would happen).

This chapter reframes the cross not in spiritual fiction, but in down-to earth reality. What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross is a psychological handle for every one of us to grab on to, not an ongoing moral project. It challenges the idea that guilt, self-correction, or spiritual effort are required to make it work. It’s a gift. Not one thing more besides truly-taking-it is required.

Go to Chapter 2

Submitted for your unlikely approval: Judicial drama becomes Living Parable. In this memorable tinsel-town courtroom, a real criminal defendant is on trial — The Church. The charges? Felony rape and battery. God is the defense attorney yet, still, the judge rules that the Living God’s opening statement is, “Out of order!”

It’s not theology on trial, but accountability.

This chapter asks the reader to sit in the jury box with the promise that, once the entire “case to end all cases” has been presented, a unanimous jury will find The Church guilty beyond any and all doubt. How can the jury (any jury) be so absolute and certain? Because even the defense attorney for The Church is in total agreement.

The Living Parable isn’t subtle. It’s meant to be seen and heard.

Go to Chapter 3

Truth can be alarming. This book presents the truth — undisputed. Uncertain? Ask God: Is this the God’s-honest truth? Or not? This chapter explains exactly how anyone can reliably and immediately get an absolute “Yes” or “No” answer from God.

The remainder of this chapter is devoted to a most pivotal point in Paul’s writing — the reversal. The disaster can be traced to one Bible verse… where the Good News ends and the Paul-manifesto begins. The author calls it: “Precisely where the ball bearing falls into the camshaft of Christianity.” The Holy Spirit calls it: “The Plane Crash.”

Go to Chapter 4

It can be argued that Jesus spoke in vague warnings. This chapter contends that Jesus told Peter exactly what would happen, why it would happen, and how it would feel when it did. The chapter confronts the fact that the tragedy wasn’t unforeseen — it was announced in advance and still ignored. The warning wasn’t about betrayal or weakness. It was about having faith in the wrong thing.

Peter trusted his resolve. Jesus pointed to the system underneath it. When the crash came, it didn’t contradict his warning — it confirmed it.

Go to Chapter 5

The examination begins. The test is not about “living in Christ” nor how well our vision is working. The eye exam is an internal view of our core self. What is it that we see? This chapter contends, it all boils down to one of two things.

In addition, this chapter tests the stand-alone power of What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross, the perils of the ifs, ands and buts and the validity of “the Anti-Perfection-Hex.” Last, but not least, we are given our first clue in regard to the greatest problem facing humanity. Our mental disease. We all have “a gigantic horse in our head.”

Go to Chapter 6

Are “Original Sin” and “the Fall of Man” solid foundation beams? This chapter agrees with Jesus: These doctrines are non-Scriptural and entirely false. To find the truth, one must go all the way back to our Factory Setting; then, proceed forward… and see where the problem started. According to Jesus, our true malfunction is neither sinful, spiritual nor theological. We (humanity) simply changed our way of thinking.

Scriptural realities hidden for centuries are at long last exposed, revealing age-old buried wisdom — truths that are simply earth-shattering.

Finally, this chapter outright identifies our mental illness — our change-of-thinking. For over 1800 years (thanks to The Church), humanity has been blinded to our mental disease with religious fairytales (Original Sin and the Fall of Man) despite the fact that the disease itself is clearly named in the Scriptures: The Knowledge of Good & Evil.

Go to Chapter 7

We gain conscience directly from eating The Knowledge of Good & Evil — that which was (and continues to be) expressly forbidden to us. This chapter challenges the idea that conscience is a God-Given internal guide; suggesting, instead, it functions exactly like a courtroom. It accuses, judges and sentences us under the authority and the harsh rule of our Master — Master Knowledge of Good & Evil.

Rather than producing clarity, this internal trial keeps people locked in cycles of self-judgment and justification. This chapter ponders whether conscience is, as the Prophet Jeremiah reveals, “deceitful above all things and desperately wicked” — or whether it simply enforces a system that was never meant to govern us in the first place.

In all likelihood, the inexplicable human conscience is both.

Go to Chapter 8

This chapter presents an in-depth understanding of Adam and Eve, matchless to any teaching that proceeds it. The unique vantage point employed in this examination inadvertently exposes many religious misconceptions while providing an important psychological insight into the mindset of our greatest great-grandparents.

As it turns out, our problem isn’t sin, behavior, or rebellion. It’s The Knowledge of Good & Evil itself. What entered the world perceived as wisdom became a system that divides, measures, and evaluates everything it touches. Once that knowledge takes hold, nothing is neutral. Everything must be classified, judged, improved, or corrected. What the distant Church ends up seeing as moral responsibility and duty is the accumulated onslaught of generation after generation infected by the constant comparison (and diabolical accusation) of Good & Evil.

This chapter argues that The Knowledge of Good & Evil is what leads to conscience, judgment, guilt, religion, sin, law and, ultimately, death. It produces fracture. And the system built to manage that fracture only accelerates the problem exponentially.

Go to Chapter 9

Evil stops being something imagined and starts becoming something found. This chapter delivers an all-embracing view of Cain and Abel — a clinical snapshot from God’s perspective. A much needed view from outside of humanity’s-insanity… looking in.

As a Biblical thesis, again, this teaching is matchless to any study that proceeds it.

Does it surprise us to learn that… once again… we’ve been duped? Much of what we’ve been taught about Cain and Abel turns out to be nothing more than religious folklore.

Go to Chapter 10

Evil stops functioning as discernment and starts operating as a permanent verdict. The Knowledge of Evil goes viral. This chapter sees Cain and Abel (historically) as our first Evil-People lesson. Directly out of the mouth of Master Knowledge of Good & Evil: “There are Good-People in Creation… and there are Evil-People in Creation.”

The chapter further contends that, under the whips and chains of Master Knowledge of Good & Evil, humanity defines what “sin” is. More so than for ourselves (in blind stupidity and faithful insanity), we purport to define it for God.

The chapter concludes that Evil itself is old, useless, counterproductive and of no value to anyone whatsoever. Moreover, for a generation that likes to cancel things, the notion of Evil is the most profitable thing for our generation to cancel.

Go to Chapter 11

This chapter celebrates one of the most important hands-on/heads-up presentations found in the Gospels — a presentation specifically designed to help us restart our Factory Setting.

Can we really get our ALL-GOOD world back? Jesus says that we can: “Metanoeo.” The human mind is the most powerful creation in the known universe. The solution for all of what ails us has nothing to do with faith, religion nor spirituality. The solution is all about absolutely knowing.

Ready we are to absolutely know the first wonderfully simple Word of Jesus: Ransom.

Go to Chapter 12

Jesus’ wonderfully simple Word, “Ransom,” unlocks exactly What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross.

Not only was the Jesus-Word “Ransom” buried under the church-word, “Satisfaction,” this chapter specifically reveals how The Church wrote “The Church” into the Bible. Jesus never said “Upon this rock I will build my church.” Neither did he say, “You need to repent.” In fact, the practice of repentance only serves to keep us kidnapped. Jesus actually said: “You need to change your way of thinking.” How so, exactly? All the way back to the very best our thinking ever was. The Place of Life — our Factory Setting.

To accomplish such a powerful psychological feat, we need a powerful psychological handle to grab onto. Jesus provides that handle to us by way of an outrageous spectacle. All we have to do is absolutely know what the handle is and truly accept it. It’s not our “debt” that Jesus is paying; for, we are not debtors. We are kidnap victims. The first wonderfully simple Word of Jesus tells us exactly what it is. It is a RANSOM.

Go to Chapter 13

Digging up the ransom isn’t about discovery. It’s about removal — getting all the dirt out of the way.

An “atonement theory” is a scholarly attempt to theologically explain what Jesus accomplished on the cross. Throughout all the centuries and denominations of Christianity, The Church has accumulated a total of six atonement theories.

One by one, this chapter explains each one of these theories… and then, one by one, the blunder of each of them.

Go to Chapter 14

By and large, The Church sees the cross as a sacrifice. This chapter examines the huge difference between a ransom and a sacrifice.

Ultimately, The Church abandoned The Ransom because no one in all of Christendom could figure out who the kidnapper is. The Reformation was of no help in unwrapping this mystery; if anything, it confounded the stalemate even further.

Go to Chapter 15

Within the genius of the Jesus Concept, there is an actual monetary figure for The Ransom — same amount for everyone. Hold on to your hat. This chapter is guaranteed to blow minds apart. So potent, it can compel an Atheist to reevaluate everything he thinks about Jesus. It can even compel the most devout Mature-Christian to leave his slow moving Sacrificial-Rickshaw (that old rusty heap with a broken wheel) by the wayside, and get on board the supersonic Ransom-Train.

Go to Chapter 16

Light from Heaven breaks forth upon the playing field. Jesus IS The Ransom. And, much to the amazement of the cheering stadium, Judas Iscariot turns out to be Jesus’ right hand man (he was always Heaven’s hero, not Hell’s betrayer) — the bagman who delivered our Ransom. And… that’s not the only bombshell.

In this chapter, at long last, we learn who the kidnapper is.

Go to Chapter 17

This chapter irons-out any leftover wrinkles — the few wrinkles that might stand in the way of anyone taking The Ransom.

It is a gift. And, this final chapter on RANSOM demonstrates how wonderfully simple it is to truly take a gift… 100%… with no ifs, ands or buts.