In matters of religion, Kneeland became more and more disenchanted of religion handed down from some prophet and enshrined by tradition."But I certify you brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is "not after man". For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught "it", but by the revelation Jesus Christ." Here is Paul, admitting after having preached a considerable number of years," that he knows nothing true of Jesus Christ, but that which Jesus Christ had revealed to himself"; and expressly declaring that this revelation had been a mystery kept secret since the world began, and was only then "first preached by himself". This declaration, were there nothing else, would be sufficient to destroy all idea of the four gospels being authentic.