Five: Was Jesus a Zealot? (What In The World? Part 2)

We are continuing our What in the World Part 2 series where we answer your questions about the Bible in an in depth setting. We also encourage you to check our website www.ourelement.org/blog for more What in the World questions that we answer in written form. Today’s question comes from a book that was on the New York Times bestseller list called, “ZEALOT, The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” written by Reza Aslan. In the book ZEALOT the author makes the claim that most of what we understand about Jesus is false and that Jesus wasn’t the savior of the world, He was simply a zealot that the early church deified. The question that was asked is, “Was Jesus a Zealot?”