The Gospel of Jesus

A curiosity.
The Gospel of Jesus [1858] By Rev. Gibson Smith[http://books.google.ca/books?id=c2ANAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Gibson+Smith%22+%22Jesus%22&pg=PP5&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Gibson%20Smith%22%20%22Jesus%22&f=false].

Was it a hoax or legitimate.

In any case John Bovee Dods wrote a letter which was included in the preface.

The Christian examiner, Volume 65, Sept. 1858(edited by Edward Everett Hale) suggests that if it was a practical satire on the credulity of our time and people it was most bunglingly done. And goes on to say if Gibson thought he could make the public receive it as a genuine series of Scriptural fragments, then he deserved a straight jacket and a lunatic’s cell.
[ http://books.google.ca/books?id=5Q4ZAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA291&ots=B-TLYDOTsO&dq=%22Gibson+Smith%22+%22Roman+catacombs%22&pg=PA291&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Gibson%20Smith%22%20%22Roman%20catacombs%22&f=false]

I've read the hype about hidden knowledge and the Bible. Actually it's just that: hype. Call it "a carrot on a stick", ego stuff or a cop out. It didn't deter Emma Curtis Hopkins, Neville Goddard nor Jane Woodward and others from the "I AM".

Unaccredited institutions such Greenwich University(Hawaii), Columbia Pacific University(California), Clarkson University in Southern California and Maharishi European Research University (MERU) in Switzerland have been associated with certain individuals from either the New Age or self-help movements in the past.

For instance, at CPU "A Ph.D. dissertation written in Spanish was approved by four faculty who cannot speak the language.". “And another dissertation had no hypothesis, no data collection, and no statistical analysis. The dissertation, The Complete Guide to Glass Collecting, was 61 pages long."
Greenwich University(Hawaii) afforded a degree in Energy Medicine from a department that didn’t even exist.

Can you trust who you read?
Lack of tangible evidence, hearsay testimonials, anecdotal evidence and unproven abilities, for example, are often the case.

Today if the author hasn’t got a title themselves, they can get a forward written by someone who has and that title will appear in big letters. William Samuel didn't walk around in bare feet. He looked like a normal elderly gentleman, not a guru.

Actually, you can be a nutritional ‘expert’ with a PhD in geology. Until someone checks what the PhD was for. Would you want to?

"BE STILL and KNOW I AM GOD"