I asked for his name because I could not remember it . I was watching a program last night and it was on National Geographic.
It's said to have been found in 1978. In it , it suppost to have said that Jesus told Judas to give him to the Romans. Could this be true? Now remeber, I saw this on National Geographic, It is not my words. I just want to hear your take on this.
2006-12-18 20:30:00 · 13 answers · asked by gord's360 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes there is the gospel according to Judas, and National Geographic had the program on last night. This is one of the 16 Gnostic Gospels. the Gospel of Thomas,The secret book of James, Basilides, Naasseren Fragment, the Gospel of Mary, Dialogue of the Savior, Marcion, Epiphanes, Ophite Diagrams, Ptolemy, Gospel of Truth, Exerpt of Theodotus, Heracleon, Acts of Peter Acts of Thomas. These Gospel are not considered inspired by the Church. A one sentece description of Gnosticism: a religion that differentiates the evil god of this world from the higher more abstract God, revelaed by Jesus Christ. visit www.earlychristanwritings.com/gnostics.html if you want to learn more, about the Gnostics-and Agnostics after looking at this, I belive in the Lord Jesus the Christ the only Son of God.
2006-12-18 21:08:47 · answer #1 · answered by pooterilgatto 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like National Geographic promotes sound Biblical doctrines! Just another anti-Christ spirit at work attempting to deny or cast doubt upon and/or pollute or dilute the truth. "The Gospel of Judas was developed by a Gnostic sect in the second century A.D and was was originally written in Greek around 130-170. This fact alone tells us that it was not authored by Judas himself. The oldest extant copy is a Coptic manuscript written in Sahidic (last phase of ancient Egyptian) in the fourth or fifth century." ...This means that the gospel is not authentic but is a false writing. In fact, the gospel was not written by Judas, but by a later Gnostic sect in support of Judas. Gnositicsm was an ancient heresy that taught salvation through esoteric knowledge. Gnosticism was known at the time of the writing of the later epistles in the New Testament and was rejected by the apostle John.6
The ancient writer Irenaeus (130 - 202 AD) in his work called Refutation of All Heresies said that the gospel of Judas was a fictitious history:"
So, there you have it. Read the whole article if you will.
2006-12-18 20:46:06 · answer #2 · answered by Lovin' Mary's Lamb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude its true, and the church knew about it WAAAAY before 1978. What they found in 1978 was just one of the earlier copies.
The Bible is a compilation of old books. Early Christians look at all of them, and because they don't all say the same thing, they had to decide what was canon and what was not. Didn't you want Da Vinci code? That part about it was true. And BTW, the only reason why National Geographic had a special about something discovered almost three decades ago, is because they were riding on the Da Vinci bandwagon.
Is it true? Who knows. Was its story confirmed by other gospels, or other sources? I really haven't had the interest to look at all the gospels that were reviewed by the Council of Nicaea.
Now isn't it just fun now that you know that just because something was written down in some ancient text, it doesn't necessarily mean that its true?
2006-12-18 20:42:07 · answer #3 · answered by ragdefender 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Gospel of Judas is a Gnostic gospel, the text of which was partially reconstructed in 2006. It has a strong positive focus on Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus, but does not claim to have been written by him.
2006-12-18 20:33:44 · answer #4 · answered by latenightdrives 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no...to coach you in basic terms how effectual his gospel replaced into, Judas killed himself whilst he found out that he replaced into to blame for the dying of Christ. So how interior the international will some suicidal demon ever sense like they might have a gospel that persons will attest to.
2016-10-15 05:38:26 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not that it even matters yes there may well be, the tip of the iceberg,as it were. I've seen similar programs but the problems
inherent in the exploitation of Jesus appear to go much deeper .
peaceout
2006-12-18 20:34:45 · answer #6 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've seen that same program. No, I don't think there is a gospel of Judas. I think that is wishful thinking on somebody's part.
2006-12-18 20:34:44 · answer #7 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope - Judas didn't hang around long enough to write anything.
National Geo missed the boat on this one.
2006-12-18 20:33:30 · answer #8 · answered by tomkat1528 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There was no gospel according to Judas it is fake
God Bless You
2006-12-18 20:33:55 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the church removed it from the bible against the explicit orders of god
2006-12-18 20:32:16 · answer #10 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋