Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 106
? 106 And he let the cat out of the bag by saying: For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged a sinner? 1 This policy of Paul made him modify the teachings of Jesus and to claim what he could not do otherwise. In spite of not being an apostle he proclaimed himself one of the Apostles who lived with Jesus. Peter, as I have mentioned above, explicitly declared that Jesus, after his resurrection, did not show himself in public, but to the disciples only, and the four accounts of the Gospel writers testify the same. But Paul, to confirm his apostleship, contradicts them all, saying that Jesus was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve (whilst there were eleven only), then of above five hundred breth- ren, then of James, then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also. 2 For the sake of the Gentiles, Paul and Peter, and those who fol- lowed them, changed the religion taught by Jesus. They believed in his crucifixion and resurrection and that he was ‘accursed’ to redeem them of their sins. They taught the people that it was suffi- cient for a man to believe in the blood of Jesus to obtain salvation. Gradually this easy religion, which should be called Paulinism, became more and more prominent till it swept away every vestige of the principles taught by the founder of what today is known as Christianity. 1. Rom. 3:7 2. 1 Corin. 15:6–9