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Opening words of the Interviewer:

Before we get started, I would just like to express to you (Jesus) just how excited I am to have had this rare opportunity to be addressing you in such an unexpected fashion. I hope that I won’t offend you in any manner with some of the questions that I have brought to this interview. This is the first time I have ever conducted an interview under such bizarre circumstances and bare with my being a bit clumsy with my effort of not letting any of my paperwork get wet. I hope that you don’t mind my recording this as I don’t wish to misquote anything that you might care to share with me, and please understand that I’m just not skilled in the art of what we call shorthand.

Jesus nodded in recognition and acceptance.

Would you care to explain why you chose to make this most unusual appearance in New Mexico rather than some other possibly more expected location that would be, say, a bit more Christian friendly?

I guess the next logical question would be for you to explain your presence; how can I be assured that this individual to whom I am addressing is actually this man once called Jesus ?

You have on several occasions already referred to yourself as that "man once called Jesus." Just for the record, were you just a mortal man or were you that reported, "Son of God?"

If you are only a man, as you so claim to be, then how is it that you have enjoyed that god-like privilege of immortality? And even more importantly, do we Christians actually have immortality?

How do you explain that so many diverse cultures that are separated by such vast geological barriers all appear to share some similar belief in a higher power or god-like figure?

Assuming there is no God and that you are only a man and not some divine being; how is it that so many unusual miracles were attributed to you and then recoded in the Bible as such?

Perhaps this is a good place to begin clarifying some of these "misgivings" that you feel were a misrepresentation of what had actually tahen place. Where would you care to start?

Wow, I didn't expect that! But on the other hand I'm excited that you have addressed some of the critical issues that have likewise always puzzled me. Would you care to expand on these thoughts?

Well, I just don’t believe it is all your responsibility to fix, and anyway, you have, in the real sense of the word, perhaps already had your say and contribution; or have you?

You have already made reference to the incident claiming your miraculous ability to turn water into wine. Would you care to start with this often and rather popularly stated miracle?

Perhaps you would care to explain just how you were able to feed some 500 people by simply the passing of those five infamous baskets amongst that rather large gathering?

I would suppose that one of the other more popular accounts was your rather dramatic healing of the blind man. Is this particular account one that you actually have any memory of ever happening?

Well then, perhaps we could turn our attention to you and your life as it actually happened. Just what is your story and would you care to begin at the beginning?

Jesus. Wow, I’m actually into calling you “Jesus!” Would you explain these “circumstances” experienced in Egypt that you feel had had such an influence on your then un-foretold future?

There have been a great number of good things that have come from what you taught, even if there were those who committed so much terrible travesties. What happened after Egypt?

Just what was so different with these particular six years that so set it apart from your earlier years in Egypt? Where you in contact with some of your earlier friends and scholars?

What all took place after your return to Judea and had you as yet formed any ideas that might have eventually resulted in what was to have become your ministry to your own people?

It was reported that you had this definitive number of disciples. Did you actually and finally end up with just that magical number of twelve disciples as was related in the Bible?

I'm not quite sure exactly where to go from here with this interview? Do you even wish to continue at this point? It appears that both you and Lamah are in some sort of serious doubt?

Many of the questions that I had made note to ask were based on a history of events that I guess never took place? So, where would you care to go with this interview at this point?

I’m really not at all surprised by your account of what actually took place. So, tell me, did you have much of a life beyond that point and just where did that life continue, if not in Judea?

Let me guess. Matthew? I have been wondering just when the two of you had actually recorded those memoirs of your days together in Judea? How did he know where to find you?

INTERVIEWER'S COMMENT: I guess that pretty much raps up your personal story and certainly leaves me with no good reason to raise any of these other questions that I had initially thought to ask. However, with your reported access to Lamah’s memory perhaps you could just comment on some of the questions that various scholars have posed in the past concerning your own approach to understanding the ills of this planet and its people?

Some scholars proposed that you had possibly visited India because much of what you taught seemed so similar to the teachings of Buddha. What is the connection, if any?

INTERVIEWER'S COMMENT: During this last respite from the interview I was given a question from one of Lamah's scholarly friends to be presented to Jesus for his consideration.

Why is it that with all your education you didn’t write down some of your own philosophies that could have possible been used to avoid all this confusion about who you really were?

Perhaps you have already answered this, but having more recently learned what you have, would you care to venture a solution that might help solve this religious quandary?

You have addressed the problem with a general solution, but given the opportunity, is there any one specific accomplishment that you would care to address?

Have you anything else that you would wish to add to this interview? Say, just for the record! Perhaps you would like to think about that? As a matter of fact that's a very good idea. I really don't believe I have anything else to add that I would wish to share at this time. However, I'm aware that there are some questions from other sources that I may wish to address so long as they are not repetitive do what I have already shared. So, let's do take a break until you have had some time together some of these questions for our consideration.

Whether there actually is a God or not, or even some supreme power, is there any great harm in just believing that there exists such a supreme power or one true God?

Lamah's sister had a question that may be a bit repetitive, but out of respect to Lamah and what I perceived to be the sincerity of his sister: “When and are you ever returning?”

Short of actually leveling every church bearing the name of Jesus have you any suggestions that just might possibly remedy any reason for their total annihilation?

Considering the reality of so little chance for any significant changes in the present establishment, especially those large churches that benefit the most from the status quo; what are we to do?

Christians as well as other historians often like to suppose that you alone are responsible for the greatest of changes to man's spirituality in these past two millennia. What is your take on this?

I have remaining but one last question. What would be your advice to some of these Christians who so deeply believe what their churches and ancestors have always contended as being the absolute truth?

I sense that we are about to conclude this interview seeing that there are no more questions at this time. Would you care to share some of your own thoughts about this whole process?

Just for the record and for the benefit of some of the would-be readers; would you ever consider giving another interview at some time in the future, and if so, how would that be arranged?

The interview was completed and Lamah continued to received some interesting questions and comments. There were some of these contributions that Lamah felt their worthiness of being included with this interview as they may shed some objective perspective to what has already been said. Understand that all of these added contributions were unsolicited and presented after the completion of this interview and none of these contributions were used in any manner as an influence on what was offered by Jesus in this candid interview.

This bit of information came in an e-mail on the morning of January 19, 2004, from a long-time friend and fraternity brother of Lamah, Richard Whiteside. God's Bestseller by Brian Moynahan

It was in the late fall of 2009 on driving home from Houston, Texas and I had one last bit of inspiration. I was in Texas visiting with a friend, Clara Harris who was helping me to finish the fifth book in this series on the Age of Reality. Jesus wanted me to write a letter....

A a

INTERVIEW

with

JESUS

in the Hot Tub

J. Lamah Walker

San Damiano Publications
Cedar Crest, New Mexico
2004

Interview with Jesus in the Hot Tub
by J. Lamah Walker

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Printed in the United States of American
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Cover image by Jannet R. Kennedy

To:

The many
Faithful who
Too often worship
Without the knowledge
Of the truth that
Would aptly
Save them

“To so totally subjugate yourself to a God
or anything that isn’t real, is simply
to become less than nothing.”

Lamah

CHRISTUS VICTOR
By: Jennet R. Kennedy

Jennet R. Kennedy was an accomplished artist that showed her mostly religious artistry in New York City throughout the nineteen forties of the last century. She eventually moved to Miami where she became acquainted with my parents. She had shared with them that she had once become a Catholic nun. Her Mother Superior, recognizing her gifted talent suggested that she leave the order in favor of fully expressing her talent in the world outside of that religious order that would have more likely only discouraged her great talent of expressing religious images. Ms. Kennedy, in the above painting that was gifted to my parents expressed that she viewed Jesus as a strong, forward thinking man of great strength and not that gentle looking depiction of most classical artists. On the back of this picture she had placed a three by five index card with the following inscription:

CHRISTUS VICTOR
“Who is this that cometh from Edom , with dyed garments from Bozrah: This that is glorious in His apparel, traveling in the greatness of His strength …. I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save…. I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the people there was none with Me….” Isaiah 63: 1,3

Thanks to…

john for his enduring love

Barbara for always being my sister

Jennet Kennedy for her artistry

Marsena, My spiritual mother

Robin, the “doubting Thomas’

dennis for his friendship

&

mother

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J. Lamah Walker, a graduate of the University of Miami (B.A. in Psychology & Religion) and Georgia State University (B.A. in Sociology/Criminology), received his M.Ed. from West Texas State in Community Counseling and his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in the Administration of Higher Education. While at the University of Oklahoma , he was the last recipient of The Robert E. Ohm Dissertation Assistance Memorial Award for outstanding scholarship as an advanced graduate student in the field of higher education and general administration. The coursework for his Ph.D. essentially consisted of the history of Western education which of course traces the history of our intellectual development. He last served as a psychotherapist at the Student Health Center at the University of New Mexico . Outside the protective confines of that academic ivory tower, Lamah has been a general contractor and real estate broker in New Mexico for some thirty years and was ordained as a minister of the Gospel at the age of nineteen in his family's inter-denominational Christian church, New Age Church of Truth. A most dynamic and resourceful Renaissance man that dramatically illustrates that old Stoic aphorism that: "Life makes philosophers of us all."

INTRODUCTION

The following will have to speak for itself. This is only the third installment of a proposed six treatises that expounds expressly on the subject of, The Age of Reality. The original author of this prophetic yet most profoundly obvious theme felt it quite necessary to review, amongst a myriad of relevant ideologies, the too often-overwhelming contributions of the Christian faith to the present state of mankind and more specifically to our Judao-Christian Western culture where this often antagonistic Christian influence has so totally infiltrated almost every aspect of our lives. It was conceived and remains to this day that there should be no better source of the truth than the very man that is heralded as the grand initiator of this now all-encompassing religion. Of course, it should be commonly known that these present and numerous Christian religions actually have their roots historically traced back only to the year 325 when the Catholic Church was first consolidated, into just one governing body and the various manuscripts of the New Testament were first selected from amongst a large number of supposed sacred writings for the exclusive inclusion into the one and only Bible that still remains in various compilations and translations as that singular source for most all of these multitude of Christian faiths. The real problems and serious questions arise as to the actually veracity of these selected writings, just why they were selected and whether they were possibly altered at that time just to satisfy what was primarily and most certainly the political agendas of the then ruling classes of the great Roman Empire that was then ruled by Constantine. It has become well known by most objectively motivated academic scholars that the essence of most of the present Christian faiths have as their only source of authority this one Bible that has been interpreted, probably more rightly stated as miss-interpreted in so many differing fashions that were most probably designed only to serve some less than some spiritual intent for the individual church, its clergymen or anyone else for that matter. It is ridiculous that so many different approaches to spiritual salvation, doctrines of righteous living and promises of eternal life have immerged from this one original and still quite questionable source. Who better to set the record straight than Jesus himself?
It should be noted and understood that the intellectual and spiritual source for this particular installment to the body of literature that supports the ideology of this Age of Reality was not influenced by any of the various and often profound contributions of other thoughtful and serious writers. Most specifically, the mind of J. Lamah has been filled with those more reliably reported antics of history that should hopefully be without the usual interpretations that are more often and intentionally biased in favor of a politically-correct status quo. The idea of an independent, unbiased and liberal (well-read) interpretation and understanding of our history was a concept that plagued the mind of J. Lamah from the very beginnings of his intellectual development:

WHY AM I HERE?

I'm not here                                           I'm not here
   To read what others write,       To reap what others sow,
Nor to see                                              Nor to see
   Without some guiding light.                  The arts which others show

I'm not here                                           I’m not here
   To learn what has been taught,            To waste my life away,
Nor to see                                              Nor to see
   My life result in naught.                       My each and every day

                                    But, then why;
                                       Why am I here at all?
                                    May' because
                                       I heard my Neighbor call.

March 8, 1960

The inner nature of J. Lamah was serendipitously expressed in the poetry that he wrote mostly in his late adolescence and at the very time when his mind was being filled with the ideas and subtle questions raised by the often obvious intellectual inconsistencies in what he was being taught mostly by those who all too often only robotically heralded the distorted ideologies of the establishment. As hard evidence of this ideological turmoil, J. Lamah’s high school Senior Thesis that was a requisite for graduation was questioned by its anonymous evaluator for its deeply reflective content and his final grade was downgraded to the lowest acceptable passing grade of ‘C-‘ for the simple idea that J. Lamah was not intellectually mature enough for having written such a profound thesis: The Reformation as Viewed from both the Catholic and Protestants’ Perspective. J. Lamah, much like that of Martin Luther, seriously questioned the veracity of Christian doctrine and practice, both historically and in its various modern expressions that in and of themselves is often a spiritual anathema.

Another of J. Lamah’s poems:

MYSELF

The times have been when needs were great,
But now there's been a change of late.

Before and now my God's been first,
But now I haven't that saintly curse.

My life so far has sought ideal,
But now I've found a fertile field;

Myself

March 20, 1961