The Christ of Paul; Or, The Enigmas of Christianity

The Gnostics.--Irenæus makes war on them.--His mode of warfare.--The Apostolic succession and the object.--No church in Rome to the time of Adrian.--Peter never in Rome-- nor Pa...

The first two chapters of Matthew not in existence during the time of Paul and Apollos.--A compromise was made between their followers at the council at Smyrna, A. D. 107.--The...

John the son of Zebedee never in Asia Minor.--John the Presbyter substituted.--The work of Irenæus and Eusebius.-- John the disciple has served to create an enigma in history.--...

The origin of the Gospels has proved a Serbonian bog, in which many writers who have attempted an explanation have floundered without finding solid ground. Scarcely two writers...

The Acts of the Apostles dates between A. D. 140 or 150 and A. D. 170. The book, _as we now find it_, was not in existence before Justin's _Apology_, because before his time the...

The phase assumed by Christianity in the fourth Gospel demanded a new class of miracles from those given in the first three.--A labored effort in this Gospel to sink the humanit...

Four distinct eras in Christianity from Paul to the Council of Nice.--The epistles of Paul and the works of the fathers changed to suit each era.--The dishonesty of the times.

It is a question of great interest in history, if nothing more, when and where it was that the Christian Church, in the form in which it has come down to us, had its origin.

Why Irenaeus wrote the fourth Gospel in the name of John.-- He shows that the Gospels could not be less than four, and proves the doctrine of the incarnation by the Old Testamen...

It is in vain to deny the truth of a miracle on the ground that it is impossible, and contravenes the well-established laws of the universe. The power to create, implies the pow...

The office of Bishop foreign to churches established by Paul, which were too poor and too few in number to support the order.--Third chapter of the second Epistle to Timothy, an...

The Catholic Epistles, as they are called, if genuine, should be regarded as of the highest authority in everything which relates to the early age of Christianity. That some are...

In the beginning of the first century there existed a sect or society which exercised great influence over the fortune and affairs of the world; but, before the second had elaps...

Bethlehem the birthplace of Christ, as foretold by the prophets.--Cyrus, the deliverer and ruler referred to by Micah the prophet.--The Lamentations of Jeremiah spoken of by Mat...

The controversy between Ptolemæus and Irenæus as to the length of Christ's ministry.--Christ was in Jerusalem but once after he began to preach, according to the first three Gos...

The claim of Irenæus that Mark was the interpreter of Peter, and Luke the author of the third Gospel, considered.--Luke and Mark both put to death with Paul in Rome.

The claims of Christ to be the Logos or Son of God, in the Alexandrian sense, are made manifest by prophecy and miracles. The Jews, influenced by the prophets of their nation, b...

THIS epistle has been the source of more controversy than any other book of the New Testament. It has been the cause of much useless labor and unprofitable research. In the firs...

The character of Irenaeus and probable time of his birth.-- His partiality for traditions.--The claim of the Gnostics, that Christ did not suffer, the origin of the fourth Gospe...

Paul and Barnabas start west to preach the Gospel.--The prevailing ideas on religion in Asia Minor.--Theology of Plato and Philo.--The effect produced by the preaching of Paul.

"THE beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before t...

Domitian's reign, A. D. 93. Cave, in his life of Clement, from the best light he could get, adopted the conclusion of Dodwell, that he became bishop about A. D. 64 or A. D. 65....

Let the reader imagine that he is in Jerusalem, in Judea, about the year A.D. 34. There is unusual tumult in the vicinity of the Temple. A large crowd has gathered, and, stirred...

episcopate eight years. He was succeeded by Eleutherus." (Ib., book v. Introduction.) "In the tenth year of the reign of Commodus, Eleutherus, who had held the episcopate thirte...

In the Acts of the Apostles, a passage from Joel the prophet is spoken of by Peter, as foretelling what is called the miracle of tongues: At the end of forty days Christ appeare...

Let us assume a stand at the beginning of Adrian's reign, A.D. 117, and make a survey of the Christian world as it presents itself at that day. A half-century has passed since t...

If we may judge of the opposition made to the doctrines of the fourth Gospel by the vehemence and bad feeling with which they were defended, we conclude that if they were not su...

Matthew, surnamed Levi, was a native of Galilee. Before his conversion to Christianity he was a publican, or tax-gatherer, under the Romans, and collected the customs of all goo...

From the death of Paul in A. D. 66, as we have before stated, to the reign of Adrian in A. D. 117, Rome was without a Christian population. Such is history when properly rendere...

At what time was Linus, said to be the successor of Peter, made Bishop of Rome? The last trace we have of him, he was with Paul, in Rome, in the fall of A. D. 65. After this we...

From a little spark, continues the writer, a large fire was kindled, which ran throughout all Egypt, Libya, the upper Thebes, and finally through Asia and Europe. After disturbi...

Gnostics, and especially Corinthus, who lived in the last years of the first century. It was possible to spin out the life of John to the end of the century, and thus bring him...