Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Not Paul, but Jesus

observations on the self-declared oppositeness of Paul's Gospel, as he calls it, to that of the Apostles: together with an indication of a real Antichrist, in compensation for the fabulous one, created by Paul, and nursed by the episcopal authors and editors of the Church of E...

Chapters

1. Chapter XVI. and last, winds up the whole, with some general

observations on the self-declared oppositeness of Paul's Gospel, as he calls it, to that of the Apostles: together with an indication of a real Antichrist, in compensation for t...

2. CHAPTER I.

In one single work, and that alone, is comprised the whole of the information, in which, in relation to this momentous occurrence, any particulars are at this time of day to be...

3. Part 2. The purpose continued.--"Delivering thee from the people, and

from the Gentiles, unto whom I now send thee." This, we see, is but a continuation of the same put-off: no revelation, no doctrine, no Gospel here. As to the doctrine--the Gospe...

4. Part 3. The purpose continued.--"To open their eyes, and to turn them

from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God..." Still the same nothingness: to his life's end a man might be hearing stories such as these, and still at the end...

5. Part 4. The purpose continued and concluded... "that they may receive

forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me." Good. But this is not doctrine; this is not gospel; this is not itself the promised...

6. CHAPTER II.

How flourishing the state of the church had at this period become, will be seen more fully in another place. Long before this period,--numbers of converts, in Jerusalem alone, a...

7. Chapter V., speaking of _that_--his second Jerusalem Visit, by the name

But,--what may easily enough have happened, distance in time and place, together considered, is--that to those particulars, which composed no more than the surface of the busine...

8. CHAPTER III.

Void, as we have seen, of all title to credence, is the story of Paul's commission from Jesus:--void may it be seen to be, even if taken by itself, and without need of resort to...

9. CHAPTER IV.

Already on another occasion, and for a different purpose, have the two accounts, between which this self-contradiction manifests itself, been brought to view: viz. on the occasi...

10. CHAPTER V.

Upon the dispersion of the Jerusalem Christians, occasioned by the judicial murder of the sainted trustee of the poor's fund--Stephen,--some of them, among whom were some native...

11. CHAPTER VI.

We come now to the transaction, on the occasion of which, the grand object of Paul's ambition received, in part, its accomplishment: namely, that, by which,--though without any...

12. CHAPTER VII.

1. Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with _me_ also.--And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that Gospel whic...

13. CHAPTER VIII.

_Interview the Fourth.--Peter at Antioch.--Deputies to Antioch from Jerusalem, Judas and Silas.--Paul disagrees with Peter and Barnabas, quits Antioch, and on a Missionary Excur...

14. CHAPTER IX.

Of this momentous visit to say what were the real objects, must in a great part be left to conjecture:--to inferences drawn from the known circumstances of the case. By himself,...

15. CHAPTER X.

_Paul disbelieved continued.--His Fourth Jerusalem Visit continued. His Arrival and Reception. Accused by all the Disciples of the Apostles, he commences an exculpatory Oath in...

16. CHAPTER XI.

We have seen the indignation produced by Paul's invasion of the dominion of the Apostles: we have seen it carried to its height, by his commencement of, and perseverance in, the...

17. CHAPTER XII.

After what has been seen of the seven days' course of perjury, proofs of simple falsehood will be apt to appear superfluous. To make certainty more sure, two preeminent ones sha...

18. CHAPTER XIII.

But, it may be said, Paul's alleged commission from God was certainly genuine; for it is proved by his miracles. Look at the Acts, no fewer than twelve miracles of his you will...

19. CHAPTER XIV.

In regard to the Acts, a notion, generally, not to say universally, received, is--that it had Saint Luke for its author: and that, accordingly, it may with propriety be regarded...

20. CHAPTER XV.

On the occasion of what passed at the Temple, the report of a great law-case,--to speak in modern and English language,--the case of _The Jews against Paul_, was begun. The judi...

21. CHAPTER XVI.

If Paul's pretensions to a supernatural intercourse with the Almighty were no better than a pretence;--his visit to Jerusalem, from first to last, an object of abhorrence to the...

22. chapter 1, verses 11, 12, he will find these words. "But I certify you,

brethren, that the Gospel which was _preached of me is not after man_: for _I neither received it of man_, neither was _I taught, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ_." Thus f...

23. CHAPTER I.

24. CHAPTER II.

25. CHAPTER III.

26. CHAPTER IV.

27. CHAPTER V.

28. CHAPTER VI.

29. CHAPTER VII.

30. CHAPTER VIII.

_Interview the Fourth._--_Peter_ at _Antioch_.--Deputies to Antioch from Jerusalem, _Judas_ and _Silas_.--Paul disagrees with _Peter_ and _Barnabas_, quits Antioch, and on a Mis...

31. CHAPTER IX.

32. CHAPTER X.

_Paul disbelieved_ continued.--_Jerusalem Visit IV._ continued. His Arrival and Reception. Accused by all the Disciples of the Apostles, he commences an _exculpatory Oath_ in th...

33. CHAPTER XI.

34. CHAPTER XII.

35. CHAPTER XIII.

36. xiv. 8-11 361

37. xviii. 7-11 369

38. xix. 1-12 372

39. CHAPTER XIV.

40. CHAPTER XV.

41. xxiii. 1-10 409

42. CHAPTER XVI.