From that, a deduction can be made that the author of Mark, when he wrote his gospel, was not currently reconciled with Peter. For example, the last we see of Peter in the Gospel of Mark, he’s breaking down and weeping after having denied Jesus three times in the 30s (14:72). However, we should be able to assume that the author does not want to give us a false impression of their current inclinations towards the figure they‘re writing about. Helms calls “John 1.” Some of gospel determinations will have to be done using exegesis, but the only other recourse would be to eliminate all the gospels except Luke-Acts due to the limitation of the time frame within the narrative. But I will also be including the Semi-Gnostic Gospel of Thomas and the earlier gospel that Cerinthus used authored by who Prof. When coming to the question of whether Paul is the author of the early Pauline Epistles or whether Peter is Cephas, I will go with the common scholarly consensus and assume they are. I’m going to do this by going through categories of scripture and listing who is described in a positive and negative fashion and tallying up the points.

As such, the best course is to isolate each source and try to determine alliances and divisions in ideology. The Acts of the Apostles paints a picture of complete apostolic unity, yet the rest of the New Testament tells of major divisions without very much background to go with. What happened to the first followers of Jesus after his death and resurrection? That’s usually where the story ends, but let us look into the question of who inherited Jesus’ mission. For on the one hand we think that the one who did such things is not a god but a man favored by the gods, but they proclaim Jesus god on the basis of a few prodigies.” -Sossianus Hierocles, proconsul under Emperor Galerius, 300 A.D. “Why have I remembered these things? In order that it might be possible to compare our precise and certain judgment on each point with the lightheadedness of the Christians.

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