Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

separation within the church. Across the years this
separation widened, making the church more
pagan and less Jewish.... Paul was no Apostle.
Xavier Zubiri, The Philosophical Problem of
the History of Religions (1993): There is absolutely
no doubt that much of St Paul's terminology
derives from the Mystery Religions.
Bart D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of
Scripture (1993); ‘The New Testament’ (video
course, The Teaching Company, 2000): Whether
seen from a social or a theological point of view,...
Christianity in the early centuries was a
remarkably diversified phenomenon.... Matthew
and Paul are both in the canon.... Many of Paul's
opponents were clearly Jewish Christians ... [who]
accepted the binding authority of the Old
Testament (and therefore the continuing validity of
the [Mosaic] Law) but rejected the authority of the
apostate Apostle, Paul. || What did the historical
Jesus teach in comparison with what the historical
Paul taught?... Jesus taught that to escape
judgment a person must keep the central
teachings of the Jewish Law as he, Jesus himself,
interpreted them. Paul, interestingly enough, never
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