Check this out.
Honestly, I'm not sure what to think of this. The charitable part of me wants to believe that it is real, and that Judas did what he did just because he was told to do it. But then I think that, just like Lucifer did, he made his own choice.
I'm just not sure...
Thursday, April 06, 2006
What?!?!?!?!
Posted by Daishi at 5:16 PM
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Two things to keep in mind - this document comes circa 300AD, not 30AD. Quoting from the article:
"Religious and lay readers alike will debate the meaning and truth of the manuscript.
But it does show the diversity of beliefs in early Christianity, said Marvin Meyer, professor of Bible studies at Chapman University in Orange, California.
The text, in the Coptic language, was dated to about the year 300 A.D. and is a copy of an earlier Greek version.
A "Gospel of Judas" was first mentioned around 180 A.D. by Bishop Irenaeus of Lyon, in what is now France. The bishop denounced the manuscript as heresy because it differed from mainstream Christianity. The actual text had been thought lost until this discovery."
My italics.
The church was so busy throwing out the label "heretics" around that time because there were a large number of splinter groups with (sometimes) radical interpretations of what it meant to be a "Christian". Even today you'll find the Coptic church is alive and well in Egypt. Gnosticism was just one of many such groups.
The existence of the document doesn't prove who the original author was, or their intent. In other words, the interpretation of events portrayed in the document is just that - an interpretation of events. Take from it what you will.
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