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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: argues that the apostles were in every respect Jews, save in
their belief that Jesus was the Messiah; and he pertinently asks,
if James, who was the brother of Jesus, and Peter and John, who
were his nearest friends, unanimously opposed Paul and
stigmatized him as a liar and heretic, is it at all likely that
Jesus had ever distinctly sanctioned such views as Paul
maintained?
In the course of many years' reflection upon this point, we have
several times been inclined to accept the narrow interpretation
of Jesus' teaching here indicated; yet, on the whole, we do not
believe it can ever be conclusively established. In the first
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
