why do certain people still quote from the "Gosple of Barnabas"?

Question

t makes the earth larger in size than the sun.
It claims that the navel (umbilicus) is a result of Satan spitting on the mass of clay from which man was created!!
It states that Adam tried to stop himself from swallowing the forbidden fruit, and that resulted in the protrusion known as the larynx.
His ignorance of the land where Christ lived is very obvious. For example, he places Nazareth at the shore of the Sea of Galilee.
The above are just a few examples of the many errors contained in this false document, and should be enough to prove how ridiculous this document really is, and in fact, so is the whole argument concerning it.

It was a forgery from the middle ages, a great piece of anti-christian psy-ops

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where did punter and sahaha go? just 2 minutes ago they were posting a storm about it.

Answer 1

Muslims are not picky what they use to defend their faith that Christ was not God. It has been proved a fraud and calls Jesus the Christ and says he isnt the Messiah...Christ and Messiah mean the same thing...It also says Muhammad is the Messiah both of these teachings would make the Qu'ran a lie...Doesn't seem to phase Muslims though so long as it says Christ is not God...lol.

Answer 2

I am not sure it was from the middle ages, more the time of the gnostics. But because some of the phrasing seems more manicheist and if you put a few words in where they are missing you get a more feminist story in parts ( except where Jesus promises to turn Mary into a man so she can get to heaven, and that it goes counter cannonical Christianity it is used to try to show that the Christians are wrong in the Gospels they chose and that there is no consistency in Christian belief.

Answer 3

I think all the gospels could be termed forgeries.