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Other Potentially Unique Areas in Jesus Christ’s Teachings
Both confirmations of our six categories as well as additional suggestions have been
made by scholars who likewise consider such topics as candidates for Jesus Christ’s unique
teachings and actions. Initially, we will simply list a few scholars who have also pointed to
items that are similar to our six topics here, though without duplicating the remarks that the
researchers above have already mentioned.
In every one of these cases, we emphasized that Jesus was the only founder of a major
world religion who taught or did these things: (1) Jesus referred to himself as deity. 87
(2) Jesus
taught that in his person, Jesus was the actual path to the Kingdom of God and eternal life. 88 (3)
Jesus was the only teacher among the non-Christian founders whose miracles are reported of him
in the early sources. 89
Moreover, (4) Jesus was the only one who taught that he would die for human sin. 90 (5)
Jesus and the early Christian view of suffering may not quite be as exclusive a teaching, but it is
87 J. Ed Komoszewski, M. James Sawyer, and Daniel B. Wallace, Reinventing Jesus: What the Da Vinci Code and
other Novel Speculations Don’t Tell You (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2006), especially Part 4, Chaps. 12-15;
Norman Anderson, The Teaching of Jesus, The Jesus Library, ed. by Michael Green (Downers Grove, IL:
InterVarsity, 1983), 151-160; Yamauchi, Jesus, Zoroaster, Buddha, Socrates, Muhammad, 40-41; Neill, Christian
Faith and Other Faiths, 233; Stephen Neill, The Supremacy of Jesus (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1984), 79-
80; 84; 86; 115; cf. 82.
88 Anderson, The Teaching of Jesus, Part I, Chaps. 2-3; Anderson, Christianity and Comparative Religion, 61;
Neill, The Supremacy of Jesus, 63-65.
89 Cf. Neill, The Supremacy of Jesus, 63, 151-152.
90 Michael Green, The Empty Cross of Jesus, The Jesus Library, ed. by Michael Green (Downers Grove, IL:
InterVarsity, 1984), 171-180; Yamauchi, Jesus, Zoroaster, Buddha, Socrates, Muhammad, 39-40; Anderson,
Christianity and Comparative Religion, 50-51, 70, note 5.
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