The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.

The virgin birth understood as literal biology makes Christ's divinity as traditionally understood impossible. Spong's calendar has him lecturing around the world. Haines Archdeacon) ISBN 1-878282-14-X
1987 – Consciousness and Survival: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into the possibility of Life Beyond Biological Death (edited by John S.

He calls for a fundamental rethinking of Christian belief away from theism and traditional doctrines. John Shelby "Jack" Spong (born June 16 1931) is a retired American bishop of the Episcopal Church.