Paul

About the Book

In an effort to stimulate your imagination, I have written a series of books concerning the formation of the Christian Church.

Our understanding of Christianity was probably formed when we attended Sunday school. Hopefully, what we learned was based on the principles of the Bible. The Bible’s New Testament provides us with a disjointed series of stories about Jesus. The stories are incomplete and have caused me to be concerned about the incidents not preserved in history. Some will say they are a figment of my imagination.

After reading the books, I encourage you to form and record your imagination about the unrecorded events.

My series of books are written as fiction related to history. In my opinion, history concerning any specific topic in ancient times is fiction. The amount of written history that is accurate is pure speculation. The amount of fiction that is contained in written history is based on several items:

1. elapsed time (from event to now)
2. government influence (the winners of war write history)
3. greed (writing to make money)
4. perspective (being human)

When you read a history book, you are reading a written perspective that has been deemed acceptable by your generation and your environment. Most history books are the perspective of well-paid victors.

About the Author

The author served in the U.S. Navy and then went to college. Graduating with engineering degrees and an MBA, he enjoyed a fifty year plus career as an engineer, businessman, company owner, and university lecturer. He is now retired but writes novels. While reading the New Testament for over sixty years and teaching Sunday School Bible classes for twenty-five years, John Mench Ph.D. has been conflicted by the lack of personality within the testament. He endeavors to add perspective to the message of the testament by creating lives for those who wrote and developed Jesus’ message.