Framing Jesus

What if the Jesus you inherited was shaped by edits rather than preserved by truth?

Many readers sense it long before they can explain it. That uneasy pause when Jesus says things like:

“The Father is greater than I.”
“Why do you call me good? Only God is good.”

These are not obscure verses. They are Jesus’s own words. Yet in modern Christianity they are often explained away, minimized, or quietly ignored.

In Framing Jesus, medic, businessman, and independent researcher Ansilo Boff examines documented historical evidence suggesting that the Jesus of history may be very different from the Christ later theology constructed.

This is not speculation.
This is textual history.

Through ancient manuscripts, early Church Father quotations, and patristic admissions, a consistent pattern emerges. Whenever Jesus clearly subordinated himself to the Father, later scribes and theologians found ways to alter, reinterpret, or remove those passages.

You will explore:

• Early Church Fathers including Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus, and Tertullian independently quoting Jesus identifying the Father as “Creator of all”, words that later disappeared from the biblical record
• The Syriac Sinaiticus from around 160 CE, preserving a tradition that reads “Joseph begat Jesus” with no virgin birth narrative
• Codex Bezae, recording Jesus’s baptism as “Today I have begotten you”, later removed as adoptionism gave way to eternal sonship theology
• How theological development, rather than new revelation, gradually elevated Jesus from devoted son to pre-existent cosmic Christ

You will trace this transformation through three stages. First exalted at a moment. Then divine from birth yet still subordinate. Finally eternal, pre existent, and co equal with the Father. This trajectory culminated in the Council of Nicaea and the Nicene Creed.

But this investigation does not stop at deconstruction.

By discovering what was changed, something vital is recovered. Jesus’s original message about the Father and about human divine connection comes back into focus.

Read without the inherited frame, Jesus’s most radical statements suddenly make sense:

“Whoever believes in me will do greater things than these.”
“The kingdom of God is within you.”
“YOU ARE GODS.”

These declarations about human divine identity sound far less like blasphemy and far more like empowerment when spoken by a teacher pointing toward the Father rather than claiming exclusive divinity.

If you have ever questioned gospel contradictions, wondered about the historical Jesus, or felt that something in traditional Christianity never quite added up, Framing Jesus invites you to examine the evidence for yourself.

The truth will not destroy your faith.
It might finally set it free.