e words such as those
Jesus is supposed to have uttered during the slumber of these very same
Apostles. This occurrence enlightens him as to what St. Augustine meant
when he wrote, "I should not believe in the Gospel if I had not the
authority of the Church for so doing." If the documents are stuffed with
the authority of the Church, these Gospels cannot be utilized for a
history of the real life of Jesus.

A study of the Epistles of St. Paul reveals that St. Paul taught that
sin and death came into the world by Adam's fall. In spite of a diligent
search the Martian found no mention of this in the words ascribed to
Jesus. From St. Paul's utterances he learns that Christ came to redeem
mankind by his voluntary oblation of himself. He was the Son of God!
Paul, not knowing that in the future a special form of conception would
be superimposed on Jesus, states that he was of human birth. The Martian
determined to ascertain what effect the teachings of St. Paul have had
on Christianity. He learns that, "Ever since St. Paul, the ruling idea
of Christianity has been that of the redemption of man, guilty of a
prehistoric fault, by the voluntary sacrifice of a superman. This
doctrine is founded upon that of expiation; a guilty person must suffer
to atone for his fault; and that of the substitution of victims, the
efficacious suffering of an innocent person for a guilty one. Both are
at once pagan and Jewish ideas; they belong to the old fundamental
errors of humanity. Yet, Plato knew that the punishment inflicted on a
guilty person is not, nor should it be, a vengeance; it is a painful
remedy imposed on him for his own benefit and that of society. At about
the same period Athenian law laid down the principle that punishment
should be as personal as the fault, thus St. Paul founded Christian
Theology on two archaic ideas which had already been condemned by
enlightened Athenians of the fourth century before our era, _ideas which
no one would dream of upholding in these days, though the structure
built upon them still subsists_."

In chapter V of the first Epistle of St. John, these words strike the
visitor, "There are three that bear witness in heaven, the Father, and
the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are One." If these two
verses are authentic, they would be an affirmation of the doctrine of
the Trinity, dating from the first century, at a time when the Gospels,
the Acts, and St. Paul ignore it. It was first pointed o