Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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.
Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth (1909);
Notebooks (date?): Paul ... advised against sexual
intercourse altogether. A great change from the
divine view. || If Christ were here now, there is one
thing he would not be— a Christian.
José Ortega y Gasset, ‘A Polemic’ (1910):
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