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Today we are going to focus on the work of an author, curious about many of the things he’d been told about Jesus. It’s about an author striving to understand and clarify many of the things within the New Testament that seemed to contradict one another and he found that there are in fact no contradictions within the four texts of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. 

Peter Boaz Jones set out on a journey to discover the truth and he discovered that the so-called contradictions, actually complement each other rather than conflict and he discovered all of this and much more while combining those four gospels into one. 

Peter Boaz Jones – This particular formulation of the four Gospels into one complete whole, with the given explanations of the text in question, including a complete scripture graph, is an attempt to give the answers to the age-old problem of the natural synchronization of the successive events in the four Gospels without any of the so-called contradictions, thus producing an entirely new work for those who are seeking answers to some of the seemingly perplexed anomalous questions that people interested in this field have halted at. Consequently, and hopefully, therefore, it will give the subject the proper credence it had from its original conception when these miraculous events were first written down. Moreover, it will create one natural flowing Gospel in combining the four, but at the same time, not taking anything away from the importance of the individuality of each of the authors and their separate books

That is Peter reading a summary from the back of his book, The Gospel of the Four: A Unique Conflation of the Four Gospels into a Single Continuous Narrative, Explicated by the Author’s Commentary. I enjoy authors like Peter who are driven by their inner curiosity and have a healthy dose of skepticism. It drives them to find objective answers. 

Peter Boaz Jones – Yeah, well, my parents, you know, my stepfather, they were quite religious. And some of the things they said, I didn’t always agree with, and I started checking up on things then. I mean, I don’t want to knock one religion against another one, because they’ve all got the truth but I was just interested in some of the things they were saying.

One of the things he discovered is that Christianity stems from Judaism, a fact well known to some. And while Christianity eventually developed its own distinct beliefs and practices, such as the belief in the Trinity and salvation through Jesus, its roots are firmly embedded in the Jewish tradition.

Peter Boaz Jones – Understanding the Old Testament properly is paramount to understanding the new though, you know, one can understand the New Testament without the Old Testament in one way, but to get a complete picture. And it depends on one’s interest. If one is interested in expanding one’s knowledge, then, naturally, one has to acknowledge that Christianity came from Judaism. Of course, a lot of people wish they didn’t, you know. But, you know, that’s basically the truth, you know.

His book is a detailed work, written in a way that’s easy to follow, which makes it great for all readers, whether they are scholars or just curious Christians. Even if you don’t agree with all of his conclusions, the book will still help you to discover new truths. To put it very simply, it’s written for anyone looking for answers.

Peter Boaz Jones – Well, basically, for people who are interested in this subject, I feel that people who are interested in it are people who study. And in this sense, the book is a study aid. It’s a reference work to keep going back to, to keep checking. And that’s basically what I want people to do is to check on some of the things that some of the stories are going around about that have gone around years about Jesus’ miracles and the text. You know, a lot of even scholars say a lot of the texts contradict each other. When on closer examination, you find that they don’t. They only enhance each other. So that’s what I want the reader to understand that it’s miraculous. The Gospels put together, even by the authors themselves, is a miraculous thing that happened. And still now, one can grasp that through my book. And that’s really what I want people to take away from it.

The Gospel of the Four by Peter Boaz Jones is a unique and award winning book!  It won the 2023 Christian Book Award contest, and the 2023 New York Book Festival Award — so congrats on that. 

This unique, award winning work of non-fiction combines all four Gospels into one cohesive text, which makes it easy if you’re trying to grasp the true context of many of Jesus’ sayings and parables. 

 His approach makes it a great resource for students, scholars, or anyone curious about Jesus and Christianity. It’s available now at Amazon.com or wherever you like to buy books and we’ve put a link to some of them and the authors Facebook page in the show’s description; and that will do it for this edition of Newsgram from Webtalkradio.com.

Peter Boaz Jones was recently interviewed on the Talking Books show on Youtube by JT Crowley. Here is the link. Subscribe to the Talking Books audio podcast on Apple. You can also hear him speaking with Suzanne Harris on the Books on Air Podcast. 

Author’s Facebook page: Author/Book Website: https://www.facebook.com/PeterBoazJones/

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