Date (happened)
- c. 1 (possible)passage 526953 (lecture nid 83), 'a little man who walked two thousand years ago'
- c. 1 (possible)passage 544408 (lecture nid 1789), 'a man, who lived and died 2,000 years ago'
- c. 1 (possible)passage 551685 (lecture nid 2019), 'he did live, that he walked this earth 2,000 years ago'
- c. 1 (possible)passage 554623 (lecture nid 2174), 'a fixed idea of Jesus Christ as a man of history, who lived two thousand years ago'
Told / reported
- 1 June 1970delivery claim [d1] on lecture nid 83 (chrome dateline 'Neville Goddard 6-1-1970', removed in Pass 0 revision 9650)
- 27 April 1965delivery claim [d2] on lecture nid 1789 (chrome dateline '4/27/65', standing alone as word 0 of the body, removed in Pass 0 revision 9117)
- 22 February 1963delivery claim [d2] on lecture nid 2019 (chrome dateline 'PAUL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Neville Goddard 2/22/63', removed in Pass 0 revision 9271)
- 1971 (probable)delivery claim [d0] on lecture nid 2174 (Neville lectures catalog #1129, provisional)
Across four lectures spanning 1963 to 1971, Neville repeatedly addresses the widespread belief — which he says he was taught as a child and is still asked about constantly — that Jesus Christ was a historical man of flesh and blood who lived and died roughly 2,000 years ago and might one day return physically. He rejects this as a surface misunderstanding of what he calls a spiritual allegory, arguing instead that 'Jesus Christ' names a pattern buried within every person, discovered only through inward revelation rather than through history or reason.