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Fall under the description of Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypses.” (CE. i, 606.) Further apologizing for these Christian forgeries, and giving a smear of clerical whitewash to the forgers, it is speciously pleaded, that “the term apocryphal in connection with special gospels must be understood as bearing no more unfavorable an import than uncanonical.” They were forgeries pure and simple; and their pious value is urged, that “the apocryphal Gospels help us to understand the religious conditions of the second and third centuries,”—as indeed they do, in a light very damaging to any suspicion of truthfulness, common honesty.


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l who put these gross fabrications into circulation in the name and for the sake of Christ. Their pious plea is: “Amor Christi est cui satisfecimus.” (Ib. p. 606.) Of these pious frauds it adds: “The quasi-evangelistic compositions concerning Christ ... are all of Orthodox origin.” (Ib. p. 607.) “CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES”—FORGED When the new Faith went forth to whatsapp number database conquer the Pagan world for Christ, the pious Greek Fathers and priests of the Propaganda soon felt the need of something of more up-to-date effectiveness than Old Testament text and Sibylline Oracles, they needed something concrete out of the New Dispensation to “show” to the superstitious Pagans to win them to the Chris.



His Church: something tangible


Visible; compellingly authentic proofs. Like arms of proof for the holy warfare, the invincible weapons of truth—“the whole armour of God”—they forged outright for the conquest of the unbeliever. What more convincing and compelling proofs of Jesus {95} the Christ, his holy Apostles, and their wondrous works of over a century ago, than the following authentic and autograph documents and records, held before doubting eyes: A “GOSPEL” WRITTEN BY JESUS CHRIST’S OWN HAND; LETTERS AND PORTRAITS OF JESUS CHRIST AND HIS PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE; LETTERS WRITTEN BY HIS VIRGIN MOTHER; PILATE’S OFFICIAL REPORT TO THE EMPEROR OF THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFICTION OF JESUS, WITH PILATE’S CONFESSION OF FAITH; THE REPLY OF TIBERIU.