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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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against Jesus.... Before him, there are no<br />

Christians, only Jewish disciples <strong>of</strong> the Jewish<br />

Jesus. After him, Christianity and Judaism will be<br />

irreconcilable.... <strong>The</strong> Epistles make absolutely no<br />

mention <strong>of</strong> the life <strong>of</strong> Jesus.... It is the ethical<br />

teaching <strong>of</strong> Saul himself which dominates, as if to<br />

replace that <strong>of</strong> Jesus in Jesus' own name.... [He]<br />

does not mention a single miracle <strong>of</strong> Jesus....<br />

From a strictly Scriptural point <strong>of</strong> view, the<br />

teaching <strong>of</strong> Saul diverges, in many fundamental<br />

points, from that transmitted by the direct<br />

witnesses <strong>of</strong> Jesus.<br />

Jon Sobrino, Jesus Christ Liberator (1991):<br />

Paul's ... Christology is centered on the<br />

resurrected Lord, and he does not make a detailed<br />

theological appraisal <strong>of</strong> the life <strong>of</strong> Jesus.<br />

Stephen Mitchell, <strong>The</strong> Gospel according to<br />

Jesus (1991): Paul <strong>of</strong> Tarsus ... [was] the most<br />

misleading <strong>of</strong> the earliest Christian writers,... [and]<br />

a particularly difficult character: arrogant, self-<br />

righteous, filled with murderous hatred <strong>of</strong> his<br />

opponents, terrified <strong>of</strong> God, oppressed by what he<br />

felt as the burden <strong>of</strong> the [Mosaic] Law,<br />

overwhelmed by his sense <strong>of</strong> sin.... He didn't<br />

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