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teachings set forth in the Gospel of Matthew, and who preached a metaphisico- cabalistic theory entirely foreign to Christ; and this separation was perfected in the time of Constantine, when it was found possible to clothe the whole pagan organization of life in a Christian dress, and without changing it to call it Christianity. Adolf von Harnack, History of Dogma I (1885): The Pauline Gospel is not identical with the original Gospel.... The empty grave on the third day ... is directly excluded by the way in which Paul has portrayed the resurrection (1 Cor. XV).... Paul knows nothing of an Ascension.... The statement that the Ascension took place 40 days after the Resurrection, is first found in the Acts of the Apostles.... Every tendency which courageously disregards spurious traditions, is compelled to turn to the Pauline Epistles— which, on the one hand, present such a profound type of Christianity, and on the other, darken and narrow one´s judgment about the preaching of Christ himself. James George Frazer, The Golden Bough (1890): If Christianity was to conquer the world, it could not do so except by relaxing a little the exceedingly strict principles of its Founder. Frederick Engels, ‘On the History of Early Christianity’ (1894): Attempts have been made to conceive ... all the messages [of John's Rev/Ap] as directed against Paul, the false Apostle.... The so-called Epistles of Paul ... are not only extremely doubtful but also totally contradictory. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (Gifford Lectures, 1901): This is the religious melancholy and ‘conviction of sin’ that have played so large a part in the history of Protestant Christianity.... As Saint Paul says: self-loathing, self- despair, an unintelligible and intolerable burden;... [a] typical [case] of discordant personality, with melancholy in the form of self-condemnation and sense of sin. William Wrede, Paul (1904): The obvious contradictions in the three accounts [of Paul's conversion in Ac 9 22 26] are enough to arouse distrust of all that goes beyond this kernel.... The moral majesty of Jesus, his purity and piety, his ministry among his people, his manner as a prophet, the whole concrete ethical-religious content of his earthly life, signifies for Paul's Christology— nothing whatever.... If we do not wish to deprive both figures of all historical distinctness, the name ‘disciple of Jesus’ has little applicability to Paul.... Jesus or Paul: this alternative characterizes, at least in part, the religious and theological warfare of the present day. Albert Schweitzer, The Quest for the Historical Jesus (1906); Paul and His 142
Interpreters (1912); Out of My Life and Thought (1931); The Mysticism of St Paul (1931): Paul ... did not desire to know Christ after the flesh.... Those who want to find a way from the preaching of Jesus to early Christianity are conscious of the peculiar difficulties raised.... Paul shows us with what complete indifference the earthly life of Jesus was regarded by primary Christianity. || The system of the Apostle of the Gentiles stands over against the teaching of Jesus as something of an entirely different character, and does not create the impression of having arisen out of it.... It is impossible for a Hellenized Paulinism to subsist alongside of a primitive Christianity which shared the Jewish eschatological expectations.... To the problem of Paulinism belong ... questions which have not yet found a solution:... the relation of the Apostle to the historical Jesus ... and towards the [Mosaic] Law.... He does not appeal to the Master even where it might seem inevitable to do so.... It is as though he held that between the present world-period and that in which Jesus lived and taught there exists no link of connection.... What Jesus thought about the matter is ... indifferent to him.... Critics [have] demanded of theology proof that the canonical Paul and his Epistles belonged to early Christianity; and the demand was justified. || The rapid diffusion of Paul's ideas can be attributed to his belief that the death of Christ signified the end of the [Mosaic] Law. In the course of one or two generations this concept became the common property of the Christian faith, although it stood in contradiction to the tradition teaching represented by the Apostles at Jerusalem. || What is the significance for our faith and for our religious life, of the fact that the Gospel of Paul is different from the Gospel of Jesus?... The attitude which Paul himself takes up towards the Gospel of Jesus is that he does not repeat it in the words of Jesus, and does not appeal to its authority.... The fateful thing is that the Greek, the Catholic and the Protestant theologies all contain the Gospel of Paul in a form which does not continue the Gospel of Jesus, but displaces it. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (son of Bahá’u’lláh), Some Answered Questions (1908): Paul permitted even the eating of strangled animals, those sacrificed to idols, and blood, and only maintained the prohibition of fornication. So in chapter 4, verse 14 of his Epistle to the Romans.... Also Titus, chapter 1, verse 15.... Now [according to Paul] this change, these alterations and this abrogation are due to the impossibility of comparing the time of Christ with that of Moses. The conditions and requirements in the latter period were entirely changed and altered. The former laws were, therefore, abrogated. 143
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sick among them. For what goes into
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act feminine, when you establish [a
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33. Yeshua says: What thou shall he
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invites thee. He replied to him: My
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89. Yeshua says: Why do you wash th
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nor does he allow the oxen to eat.
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you.’) 9. The light with the dark
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Logos; and his blood is the Sacred
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are born. Therefore we also are mot
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have found his sons to be noble for
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eternal. And it is thus revealed to
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