Jesus: The Ultimate Supernatural Hero

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Anne Rice met in Jesus everything she'd been looking for. She writes in the last page of her note, "I offer this novel with love to my readers who've followed me through one strange turn after another in the hope that Jesus will be as real to you as any other character I've ever launched into this world we share. After all, is Christ our Lord not the ultimate supernatural hero, the ultimate outsider, the ultimate immortal of them all?"

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I predict this book will become the print equivalent of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ." Great debate will be sparked by Rice's skewering of what passes for New Testament "scholarship" these days as "assumption based upon assumption based upon assumption." Millions who have followed Rice's adventures through the darker realms will follow her now towards Jesus. There will be a lot of controversy there as well. Many of those whose faith has been shaken by "The Da Vinci Code's" fiction will find it bolstered by "Christ the Lord." And then there will be the enthusiastic embrace of believers everywhere who will find in these pages a glimpse of who Jesus might have been.

I hope that Ms. Rice returns home as quickly as possible so she can finish her next volume on Jesus, and the one after that. I know that these are novels, but I sense in them something holy. "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt" isn't the Bible, but it is inspired by God.

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