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conscientiously believe himself to be what these spurious
Gospels allege? Could a Jew conscientiously write such
stories, which are purposely written to disconcert and foil

the expectation of that people? Of course, other than
a negative answer cannot be expected from me to these
questions. Neither Jesus (pbuh) nor his apostles would ever
use such an extravagant title among a people already
familiar with the legitimate owner of that surname. It
would be analogous to putting the crown of the king upon
the head of his ambassador, the latter having no army to
proclaim him king. It would be simply an insane usurpation
of the rights and privileges of the legitimate Son of Man.
Consequently, such an unjustifiable usurpation on the part
of Jesus (pbuh) would be equivalent to the assumption of the
epithet of “the Pseudo Son of Man” and of the Antichrist!
The very imagination of a similar act of audacity on
the part of the Holy Christ Jesus (pbuh) makes my whole
nature revolt. The more I read these Gospels the more I
become convinced to believe that they are a production
-at least in their present shape and contents- of authors
other than the Jews. These Gospels are a counterpoise to
the Jewish Revelations - particularly as a counter-project
against the Sibyllian Books. This could only be done by
Greek Christians who had no interest in the claims of the
children of Abraham (pbuh) . The author of the Sibyllian
Books places side by side with the Jewish prophets
Enoch, Solomon (pbuh) , Daniel, and Ezra, the names of the
Greek sages Hermes, Homer, Orpheus, Pythagoras, and
others, evidently with the object of making propaganda
for the Hebrew religion. These books were written when
Jerusalem and the Temple were in ruins, some time before
or after the publication of St. John’s Apocalypse.