The author analyzes first century works such as the letters of Paul, the Dialogue of the Savior, Joseph & Asenath, the Gospel of Thomas, the Jewish Christian gospels, and spiritual leaders of the time from Menander to Basilides, Cerinthus, and Saturnilus to find the Roman Christian Community out-of-step with the broad consensus of Christians from Egypt to Palestine to Syria and beyond which held that Jesus was a human being who channeled a divine being in the latter part of his life called 'the Son of Man' and used an Egyptian meditation technique called the psychomantium as a mystery school...

The author proves for the first time-- in the face of all contemporary scholarship-- that the Gospel of Thomas can be seen to be designed out of whole cloth to be understood as one coherent and logical conversation from beginning to end to end. This has not been perceived by contemporary scholars because the received text is only the 'answer key'. The 'question key' part of the Socratic dialogue is missing Once proper questions are added in between each saying which flow as the natural responses to each saying that ALSO correspond to the content of the following saying then the understanding...