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ejecting the [Mosaic] law.... Paul imported into the Christian community a form of religion characteristic of the ‘mysteries’,... religious movements of initiation into secret rites and esoteric knowledge. Og Mandino, The Christ Commission (1980): The disciples and other intimate followers of Jesus are all pious Jews. Juan Luis Segundo, The Person of Today confronting Jesus of Nazareth (1982): Within less than thirty years of the events narrated by the Synoptics concerning the life and proclamation, death and resurrection of Jesus, Paul permits himself to compose a long and complex exposition of what this means, retaining, apparently, only the two final specific events, the death and the resurrection. Jesus' words are not cited (with the exception of those pronounced over the bread and wine at the Last Supper), his teachings are not remembered. The key terms have disappeared which he employed to designate himself, his mission and his immediate audience: the Son of Man, the Kingdom of God, the poor. Abba Eban, Civilization and the Jews (WNET Heritage video #3, 1984): Those who followed the teachings of Jesus were known among other Jews as Nazarenes. In the beginning, the Nazarene sect was completely Jewish.... Although this had been a Jewish sect, Paul welcomed new followers without having them convert to Judaism. Jürgen Moltmann, Political Theology [&] Ethical Theology (1984): The theology of Paul and that of the Reformation interpreted the death of Jesus theologically as a victim of the law [of Israel]; and they made it very clear that the resurrection and exaltation of Christ signified the abolition of [that] law with all its demands.... [But] Jesus did not die by stoning, but rather by Roman execution. Yigael Yadin, ‘The Temple Scroll— the Longest Dead Sea Scroll’, Biblical Archaeology Review (Sept/Oct 1984): We must distinguish between the various layers, or strata, to use an archaeological term, of early Christianity. The theology, the doctrines and the practices of Jesus, John the Baptist and Paul ... are not the same. Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh & Henry Lincoln, The Messianic Legacy (1986): In what ... does ‘Christianity’ reside? In what Jesus taught? Or in what Paul taught? Except by sleight of logic and distortion of historical fact, the two positions cannot be harmonized. James Michener, Legacy (1987): Women ... will no longer kowtow to the 156
fulminations of St Paul. Bruce Metzger, The Canon of the New Testament (1987): According to [some] scholars the presence of contradictions between New Testament books ... makes it necessary to establish a critical canon.... For example, the eschatology of Luke-Acts cannot, it is said, be harmonized with Paul's eschatology.... Again, the outlook on the Old Testament law in the Epistle to the Romans certainly appears to be different from the outlook in Matt.v.18.... Furthermore, the Epistle of James attacks the Pauline doctrine of justification by faith alone. For these and similar reasons, it is argued,... there [is] no unity within the canon. Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, Insight on the Scriptures, ‘Paul’ (1988): Whose name then appears among those on the ‘twelve foundation stones’ of the New Jerusalem of John's vision— Matthias' or Paul's? (Rev/Ap 21:2,14) ... God's original choice, namely Matthias. Paula Fredriksen, From Jesus to Christ (1988): Scholars, their confusion facilitated by Paul's own apparent inconsistency,... do not agree even on what Paul said, much less why he said it. Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World (1991): Was Christ a Christian? That also can certainly be debated. Gerald Messadié, Saul the Incendiary (Paris 1991): Saul does not really know the teaching of Jesus. In the Epistles there are no traces of the parables, nor of the expressions and attitudes of Jesus.... The transformation, the essential metanoia of the believer by ethical meditation, has almost no place in his writings.... Saul quickly arrogates to himself, and it seems incredible, the privilege of the truth. He, who only glimpsed Jesus, with unparalleled arrogance claims to be the only one who possesses the truth of the teaching of the Messiah— against those who, for their part, knew Jesus personally, against the first disciples. What insolence: he considers Peter a ‘hypocrite’!... I asked myself if Saul wouldn’t have participated also in the plot of the Sanhedrin against Jesus.... Before him, there are no Christians, only Jewish disciples of the Jewish Jesus. After him, Christianity and Judaism will be irreconcilable.... The Epistles make absolutely no mention of the life of Jesus.... It is the ethical teaching of Saul himself which dominates, as if to replace that of Jesus in Jesus' own name.... [He] does not mention a single miracle of Jesus.... From a strictly Scriptural point of view, the teaching of Saul diverges, in many fundamental points, from that transmitted by the direct witnesses of Jesus. 157
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