CONTENTS

PREFACE

ISLAM IS THE ONLY ONE

CHAPTER 1

THE EARLY FOLLOWERS OF JESUS CHRIST AND
THE FORMATION OF CHRISTIANITY

1.1    The Word “Christians” Were Unknown To Jesus

1.2     Diversity In the Early Followers of Jesus   

1.3     The Nazarenes Versus the Pauline Christianity

1.4     St. James, the Head of the Nazarenes

1.5     The Early Church

1.6     The Origin of the Word Nazarene

1.7     Keepers of “The Torah”

1.8     The Early Church, The Church of the Circumcision

1.9     Salvation Is Through Faith & By Obeying God’s Law

1.10   Obey the Scribes or Teachers of the Law  

1.11   Jesus Instruct His Followers to Offer “the Gift that Moses Commanded”

1.12       The Ritual of Exorcism

1.13       Jesus: Those Who Do Not Follow The Law Are Hypocrites

1.14   St. James: Faith Without Good Works Is Useless And Cannot Save Anyone

1.15   Paul And Christianity

1.16   Paul, The Real Founder of Christianity

1.17   Paul Cursed Christ!

1.18   Paul and His Pauline Churches Changed Jesus Into God

1.19   Paul’s Life: Examining His Contradictory Testimonies

CHAPTER 2 

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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1.5    The Early Church

              In 38 Christian era, a centralized Nazarene authority was already well established in Jerusalem. By later Christian chronicles, this administrative hierarchy was to be known as “the Early Church”. Its most famous member was of course, St Peter the disciple. [1] Its official head, however conspicuously neglected by later Christian tradition was St James the Righteous. It was not Peter but James who presided over “the Church” in Jerusalem. [2] . F.E Peters, Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literature, History, Hebrew, and Judaic Studies at New York University in his “Judaism, Christianity And Islam: The Classical Texts and Their Interpretation” states that:

“Peter is prominent in the events recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, but if there was any implied head of the Church there, one is far more likely to think that it was James, the brother of the Lord.” [3]

            Eusebius referred to St. James as the “first Bishop of Jerusalem”, which is “The Mother Church” of the early followers of Jesus Christ. St Clement, one of the Church Fathers in his “Outlines Book VI” put it thus:

“Peter, James [4] and John, after the ascension of the Savior (Jesus Christ) did not claim pre-eminence because the Savior had specially honored them, but chose James the Righteous as Bishop of Jerusalem.” [5]

So great was the authority and influence of St James on the disciples of Jesus Christ, especially on St. Peter, that the author of “The Messianic Legacy” observes: 

“In one Nazarean text, Paul is called ‘the enemy’. The text maintains insistently that Jesus’s rightful heir was his brother James, and takes great pains to argue that Simon Peter never in fact ‘defected’ to Pauline thought. Simon Peter is quoted as issuing a warning against any authority other than the Nazarean hierarchy:

“Wherefore observe the greatest caution, that you believe no teacher, unless he brings from Jerusalem the testimonial of James, the Lord’s brother.” [6]

The above statement proves that on grounds of serious and fundamental theological and doctrinal differences, St. Peter did not support the teachings of Paul. In fact Peter made attempt to save the original religion of Jesus preached by the Nazarenes Community from the distortions of Paul and his Christian congregation. Unfortunately, nearly all the material of that time was written by the followers of Paul, thus the truth was concealed. [7] Fortunately, in 1953, a book entitled “The Nazarene Gospel Restored” was published in America. The book was jointly authored by Robert Graves and Joshua Fodro. The latter was the son of a well-known Christian Bishop. In the introduction to this book, a detailed critique of Paul has been undertaken whereby it is proved that Paul had to a very great extent corrupted the teachings of Jesus, and that the disciples were for this reason displeased with him. [8]

  According to Robert W. Mond, the author of  “The New Testament in Question”:   

“Although the Bible itself never explicitly states that St. James is the ‘leader’ of the Jerusalem Community, in Acts of the Apostles 15:13-21 and 21:18 he has a prominent role. The latter tellingly states that “Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present.” This puts the elders in a subordinate position to James. Paul in his letter to the Galatians (2:9) states: “James, Peter, and John, who were known as pillars of the Church” Later, this same letter (2:11-12) clearly shows that Peter is subordinate to James when he states “Peter came to Antioch sent by James.” [9]