Gospels of Thomas and Philip and Truth - Syriac Christian Church

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individual deeds. || One might reflect on what we would know about Jesus if we had just the letters of Paul. We would have a magnificent theology about what God has done in Christ, but Jesus would be left almost without a face.... ‘I have not come to abolish the [Mosaic] Law’ (Matt 5:17); ‘You are not under the Law’ (Rom 6:14).... Luke is particularly insistent on the reality of Jesus' [resurrection] appearance, for Jesus eats food and affirms that he has flesh and bones. In his references to a risen body, Paul speaks of one that is spiritual and not flesh and blood (I-Cor 15:44,50).... Paul had begun a process whereby Christianity would become almost entirely a Gentile religion.... Far from being grafted on the tree of Israel, the Gentile Christians will become the tree.... Was it proper for a Christian apostle to indulge in gutter crudity by wishing that in the circumcision advocated by the [Jewish-Christian] preachers the knife might slip and lop off the male organ (Gal 5:12)? What entitled Paul to deprecate as ‘so-called pillars of the church’ members of the Twelve who had walked with Jesus and the one [James] honored as ‘the brother of the Lord’ (Gal 2:9)? John Dominic Crossan, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994); ‘Peter and Paul and the Christian Revolution’, PBS documentary (April 2003): As far as Luke who wrote the Acts of the Apostles is concerned, Paul was not one of the Twelve Apostles and could never have been one since he had not been with Jesus from the beginning. For Luke, there are only Twelve Apostles and, even with Judas [Iscariot] gone, it is not Paul [but rather Matthias] who replaces him. || What is at stake in this is, if we're going to have a Gentile Christian community and a Jewish Christian community, are we going to have two Churches or one? If we're going to have one, how is it to be integrated together? That's what is at stake in this: how is the Church, with these two wings, these two divisions as it were, how is it to remain one Church? Is it going to remain one Church? Ian Wilson, Jesus: The Evidence (1996): [The] interest [in Paul's letters] lies in their apparent ignorance of any details of Jesus' earthly life.... [Paul] reflected the attitudes of contemporary society towards women rather than what we may now believe to have been Jesus' own ideas.... We seem to be faced with a straight, first- century clash of theologies: Paul's on the one hand, based on his other-worldly [Damascus Road] experience; and James' [in his epistle], based on his fraternal knowledge of the human Jesus. And, despite the authority which should be due to the latter, it would seem to be Paul's that has been allowed to come down to us.... 160
Particularly significant is [James'] gentle but firm stance on the importance of Jesus' teaching on communal living. Alan F. Segal (for Eugene Schwartz), ‘Electronic Echoes: Using Computer Concordances for Bible Study’, Biblical Archaeology Review (Nov/Dec 1997): We can easily quantify allusions by measuring whether a passage in one Biblical work merely repeats a few words of another or whether it directly quotes several words running.... The results of our research seemed to confirm ... very few clear parallels between Paul and the Gospels.... [They] almost always express [even] the same ideas in completely different words.... I am unconvinced by the myriad rather weak parallels between the Gospels and Paul. Rather,... the [computer] word study seems to show that the two are definitely unrelated. Stephen J. Patterson, ‘Understanding the Gospel of Thomas Today’, in Stephen J. Patterson, James M. Robinson & Hans-Gebhard Bethge, The Fifth Gospel (1998): The so-called Apostles' Creed that emerged only in the second century [is] completely lacking in sayings of Jesus and focused only on his birth and death. John Kaltner, Ishmael Instructs Isaac—An Introduction to the Qur’an for Bible Readers (1999): Jesus acknowledges the authority of the Law of Moses while ... Paul argues that Jesus' death and resurrection has rendered the Law totally obsolete for the Christian. Anthony Saldarini, ‘Jewish Reform Movements: Qumran and the Gospel of Matthew’ (Biblical Archaeology Society video lecture, 1999): Jesus wasn't a Christian.... Jesus was a Jew.... To be a follower of Jesus, you don't have to leave Judaism and become a Christian. To be a follower of Jesus, you have to live Jewish life the way that Jesus taught people to live Jewish life.... Paul says that there's the Gospel and there's the [Mosaic] Law; that's Paul's polemic, that's somewhere else. Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, City of God (2000): I will say here of Jesus, that Jew, and the system in his name, what a monstrous trick history has played on him.... Christianity was originally a Jewish sect. Everybody knows that.... Paul— you know, Paul. Fellow had that stroke on the road to Damascus?.... Then what? In this case, a new religion. Daniel Boyarin, ‘The Gospel of the Memra’, Harvard Theological Review (2001): For [the Gospel of] John,... Jesus comes to fulfill the mission of Moses, not to displace it. The Torah simply needed a better exegete, the Logos Ensarkos, a 161
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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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invites thee. He replied to him: My
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nor does he allow the oxen to eat.
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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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on that which he had planted. His h
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eternal. And it is thus revealed to
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thereafter in Mesopotamia. Joseph t
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