"We must frankly admit that we have no source of information with respect to the life of Jesus other than ecclesiastic writings put together during the latter part of the Fourth Century."
"It is amazing that neither history nor tradition should have embalmed for us even one certain or definite saying or circumstance in the life of the saviour of mankind, except the comparatively few events in the four brief Gospels. There is no statement in all history that says anyone saw Jesus or talked with him. Nothing in history is more astonishing than the silence of contemporary writers of the events relayed in the four Gospels relative to Jesus, his disciples and his work."
"The chief of the (Mithraic) fathers, a sort of pope, who always lived at Rome, was called Pater Patrum".
‘The historicity of biblical narrative has not been established and should not be assumed’.
(The Messiah Myth, Professor Thomas L. Thompson, (Associate Professor of the Marquette University in Milwaukee; currently, Chair of Old Testament Studies, University of Copenhagen), Basic Books (a member of the Perseus Group), New York, 2005)
Extracted from an Entry in The Christ Scandal called, Golgotha unknown:
‘Nothing from Christianity can be, or is more positively proven false and forged than every book and text of the New Testament. Who can deny this?’
(A Record of Conflictions in Accredited Church Expositions, Major Joseph Wheless, Judge Advocate, USA)
Extracted from an Entry in The Christ Scandal called, A glaring omission in World’s oldest Bible:
After a lifetime of dedicated New Testament research, Dr. Constantine Von Tischendorf (1815-1874), a German biblical scholar and Professor of Theology confessed that he found it difficult to understand ...
... how scribes [of the New Testament] could allow themselves to bring in here and there changes, which were not simply verbal ones, but such as materially affected the very meaning and, what is worse still, did not shrink from cutting out a passage or inserting one.
Extracted from an Entry in The Christ Scandal called, Gospel authors impostors, this is what the Church said about the authors of its Gospels:
The titles of our Gospels were not intended to indicate authorship ... It thus appears that the present titles of the Gospels are not traceable to the evangelists themselves ... they [the New Testament books] are supplied with titles, which however ancient, do not go back to the respective authors of those writings ... the headings ... were affixed to them’.
(Catholic Encyclopedia, i, p. 117; vi, pp. 655, 656; published under the Imprimatur of Archbishop Farley; also, Catholic Encyclopedia, Pecci Edition, ii, p. 301, iii, p. 179; passim)
The Church admits its Gospels were not written ‘according to Matthew, Mark, Luke or John’, as publicly presented (This information is also associated with an Entry in The Christ Scandal called, Late appearance of the Gospels).
Extracted from an Entry in The Christ Scandal called, Counterfeit Christian writings, this is what the Church said about forgery in the New Testament:
Like the Old Testament, the New has its deutero-canonical [i.e. false] books and portions of books, their canonicity having formally been a subject of some controversy in the Church. These are, for entire books: the Epistle to the Hebrews, that of James, the Second and Third of John, both of Peter, Jude, and Apocalypse [Revelation]; giving eight in all as the number of the questionable New Testament books. The formerly disputed passages are mainly: the closing section of St. Mark’s Gospel, xvi, 9-20, about the resurrection and apparitions of Christ; the opening two chapters of the Gospel of Matthew; The final chapter of the Gospel of John (21) [See Entry, Gospel of John unauthentic]; the verses in Luke about the bloody sweat of Jesus, xxii, 43, 44; the Pericope Adulterae, or narrative of the woman taken in adultery, St. John, vii, 53 to viii, 11; words in the Gospels not regarded as genuine, as Mt. vi, 13b; xvii, 21; Mk. xvi, 9-20; John vii, 53; viii, 2. Since the closing of the Council of Trent it is not permitted for a Catholic to question the inspiration of these writings and the troubling passages.
Catholic Encyclopedia, iii, p. 274; edited by Cardinal Cardozia and published under the Imprimatur of ‘De Romano Pontiff’ (Pecci), 1897. Pecci was Pope Leo XIII; birth name, Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci (1810-1903)
This is an extract from an Entry in The Christ Scandal called, Applied retroactively; Professor Edmond S. Bordeaux (d. 1979), after spending years in the Secret Vatican Archives, wrote a book called, How The Great Pan Died (Mille Meditations, MCMLXVIII). In a chapter titled, ‘The Whole of Church History is Nothing but a Retroactive Fabrication’, he said this (in part):
The Church ante-dated all her late works, some newly made, some revised and some counterfeited, which contained the final expression of her history ... her technique was to make it appear that much later works written by Church writers were composed a long time earlier, so that they might become evidence of the first, second or third centuries.
(How The Great Pan Died, Professor Edmond S. Bordeaux, Mille Meditations, MCMLXVIII, p. 46)