"One error of the students of Comparative Religion deserves particular mention, for it is typical. In consequence of the parallelism which they maintain between the mystery religions and Paulinism, they come to ascribe to the Apostle the creation of a "religion." Nothing of the kind ever entered into his purpose. For him there was only one religion: that of Judaism. It was concerned with God, faith, promise, hope, and law. In consequence of the coming, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it became its duty to adjust its teachings and demands to the new era thus introduced, and in the process many things were moved from the shadow into the light, and others from the light into the shadow. "Christianity" is for Paul no new religion, but simply Judaism with the center of gravity shifted in consequence of the new era. His own system of thought is certainly for him no new religion. It is his belief, as fully known and worked out in its implications, and it professes to be nothing else than the true Jewish religion, in accord both with the time and with the Scriptures." - Schweitzer, A. (1912) "Paul and His Interpreters" (pp. 227) New York: The Macmillan Company.
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