Excerpt from The Origin of Christianity, and a Commentary to the Acts of the Apostles
"Truth only, in the name of God," this is the object of this volume. With the utmost respect for religion itself and for the Bible, with due reverence for Christianity, the important factor in the history of civilization, and with a profound regard for the religious feelings of all good men, the following pages were written to contribute to the religious literature of our age the results of twenty years of individual research.
The four Gospels, the origin of which is discussed in this volume, can not be taken as the main sources for the origin of Christianity. They represent it in the second and third stages of its development. The authors were Christians before they wrote their books; hence Christianity preceded them. In the form as these Gospels are now before us, they prove that their respective authors were fully acquainted with the dissentions among the Jewish Christians on the one side and the Gentile Christians on the other. They contain polemics of those parties, and conciliatory attempts; consequently they are secondary sources for our purpose.
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