To the followers of religion are loyal, highlighted the axiom that the Gospel writers were eyewitnesses. Is not Yustin in the second century says that the Gospels are memoirs (the records) of the Apostles (the friends of Prophet Isa). And then also given a detailed description of the gospel writers, so people do not hesitate to correct. For example: Matthew is a very famous "civil Excise duty on Kafrna'um," He understand Aramaic and Greek. Mark is mentioned as a friend Peter; already clear that Mark was not an eyewitness who saw Jesus himself. Luke was a physician, so Paul said that the remarks about Luke is very accurate. John was an apostle (friend) who is always close to Jesus, son of Zebede, a fisherman on the lake Genesareth.
Modern investigations of beginnings of Christianity show that the presentation of the above does not fit with reality. We later would find out who the authors of the gospel. Regarding the period of several decades after Jesus no longer exists, we must know that what happened did not like what was said, and that the visit of Peter to Rome did not establish the Catholic Church. Contrast between the time Jesus left this earth until the middle of the century II, ie for more than a century there has been a struggle between two streams of the Christian religion according to Paul and the Judeo-Christian religion; to flow slowly Paul urged the original flow of the Judeo-Christian religion.
Many articles that appear in the final decades of this and that based on findings revealed in our time, has enabled us to understand the modern thoughts presented by Cardinal Danielou. Article published in December 1967 in a magazine-Etude (investigation) entitled: A new view of the origin or the Judeo-Christian religion Christianisme. Citing previous articles, he explored the history and allows us to put the Gospel in the context of very different to what we can read the descriptions written for the laity. Below we list the summary of the main thoughts in the article, with the quotations:
After Jesus, no longer a small group of the apostles (friend) who is a "Jewish sect devoted to the worship and ceremonies of the temple." But when a lot of new people who convert to Christianity from Pagan religions (Pagan), they proposed a special rule, the Council of Jerusalem in 49 AD to free them from circumcision and Jewish ceremonies. Many of the people, the Jewish-Christians who disagree with this special treatment. This group broke away and Paul. In fact, there have been clashes between Paul and the Christian Jews in 49 AD was also in Antioch. For Paul, circumcision, holidays and ceremonies Saturday at the temple no longer need, whether for followers of Jesus or to the Jews themselves. Christian Religion must free itself from religious Politico relationship with Judaism, and open yourself to people Gentil (who is not Jewish).
In the view of Christian Jews who remained faithful, to Jewish teachings, Paul was a traitor. The documents they say that Paul was an enemy and charge him with two-face tactics, but until the year 70 AD Judeo-Christianisme a "majority in the church" and "Paul is a man who alienated." Chairman of the Judeo-Christian society than is Jack, a relative of Jesus. He was accompanied by Peter and John. Jack can be considered as its pillar Judeo-Christianisme, who deliberately loyal to the Jewish religion against the Christian religion that led Paul. Family of Jesus plays a role in Judeo-Christian church in Jerusalem. Substitute Jack is Simon, son of Cleopas, a cousin of Jesus.
Cardinal Danielou cites Judeo Christian writings that reveal views of Judeo Christian group that formed around the apostles (friend) of Jesus: Gospel of the Hebrews (about the Jewish community of Christians in Egypt), Clement Hypotesa essay, gratitude Clement (Reconnaissance de Clement ), Apocalypse and the Gospel Thomas.8 Jack The Jews that Christians who wrote the ancient Christian documents mentioned in detail olel Cardinal Danielou.
"On IM century, Jewish-Christian religion not only in Jerusalem and Palestine, but in other places as well, either before the flow of Paul's spread. This shed light why the letters of Paul always mentions the existence of conflict," is everywhere Paul got the same obstacles, in Galitea, Corinth, Colossae, Rome and Antioch.
In the Syrian coastal lands of Palestine, from Gaza to Antioch, the people embraced Christianity Judaism, as described by the letters of the apostles and the writings of Clement. "
In Asia Minor the followers of Judaism Christianity has been proven by a letter to the Galitia and a letter to the Colossians, both transmitted by Paul. Papias's writings give a picture of Christian Jewish religion in Phrygie. In Greece, especially at Apollos, Paul's letter to person Corinthians shows tersiarnya Christian Judaism. Rome is an important center, according to Clement's letter and Pastor of Hernias. In Suetone and Tacite, Christians were a Jewish sect. Cardinal Danielou argued that Christianity entered Africa, the early Christians were Jewish. This is corroborated by the Gospel of the Hebrews and the writings of Clement of Alexandria.
It is very important to know the facts so that we can understand that the Gospels-Gospels were written in an atmosphere of struggle between two groups. The spread of text that we have now, after the holding of the changes in the source text, beginning around the year 70 AD, the time of clashes between two rival groups. At that time more Christian Jewish groups. But with the Jewish War (against the Roman Empire) and the fall of Jerusalem in 70, the situation is reversed.
Cardinal Danielou explained this decline as follows:
"Because the Jews were no longer trusted in the Roman Empire, the Christians distance themselves from them. Christianity as broadcasted in Greece making progress. Paul got the victory after his own death. Christianity split from Judaism both sosiologik and politically, and a third group, which in addition to Jews and Gentiles. But despite that until the Jewish revolt that occurred in the year 140, Christian agamaYahudi still dominant culture. "
From year 70 to about AD 110, there arose the four Gospels, which is written by Mark, Matthew, Luke and John. Gospel is not the first Christian document; previously had no letters of Paul. According to O. Culmann, Paul wrote a letter to the Thessalonians in the year 50. But it's clear, Paul died several years before the Gospel of Mark finished writing.
Paul was a much disputed and considered traitors to the teachings of Jesus by the family of Jesus himself, and by the apostles (companions of Prophet Jesus) who lived in Jerusalem with Jack. Paul is considered to have broadcast their own teachings and detrimental to the friends who gathered by Jesus himself to broadcast its teachings. Because Paul never met Jesus, he gives a basis for his actions by saying that Jesus was alive again after the grave, appeared to him on the road to Damascus. We may wonder how that should happen in the Christian religion if Paul did not appear; of course there are all kinds hypotesa. However, in matters concerning the Gospels, we can say that if the atmosphere of clashes between the two groups caused by the perverted teachings of Paul were not there, we certainly will not find a gospel-gospel as they are today. Because it is written at the time of conflict between the two groups, then the writings of the struggle (ecrits de Combat) as called by RP Kannengiesser, has emerged from the writings about Jesus when Christianity according to Paul's teaching has been won and are putting together a collection of official texts or Canon, which is the text that punishes any other text that does not comply with the line chosen by the Church, and regard it as contrary to orthodoxy.
After the followers of Judaism Christianity no longer rnerupakan influential group, they were usually called "Yudaisants" namely the people who inclined towards the Jewish religion. Cardinal Danielou writes:
"The Judeo-Christian people are disconnected from the Great Church of freeing ourselves from Jewish influence, and they were destroyed quickly in the West. But they still exist in the East in the third and fourth centuries, especially in Palestine, Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Mesopotamia (Iraq). Among them are many who converted to Islam, which indeed they were the inheritors of an aspect of Christian religion, others follow the orthodoxy of the Church by maintaining the Semitic culture, "as there are in Ethiopia and Babylon.