2007-11-09 12:37:51 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The manuscript has been dated to between 220 and 340 AD, not nearly as early as the gospels, and is thought to be the work of the Gnostic's, a second-century sect whose views have long been regarded as heretical. The book contradicts many Biblical teachings.
2007-11-09 12:46:52 · answer #1 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As stated in a previous answer, it was written by "Gnostic" scholars a couple or three centuries after the fact ( not written by Judas Escariot ) and the church decided that as it sugested that Judas was in fact the "Chosen Disciple" it would be heretical and confusing if it were accepted as doctrine.
The bible, like any other work of fiction was subject to the cutting table.
2007-11-11 06:00:29 · answer #2 · answered by Pattythepunk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because, as one scholar in the field put it, reading the gospel of Judas is like reading "recently discovered" diaries of Queen Victoria, in which she discusses her CD collection and the forthcoming London Olympics. It's full of anachronisms in other words.
2007-11-10 00:12:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Michelle, you're either lying or mistaken. The Gospel of Thomas is dated earlier than Matthew, Luke and John. It also is closer in resemblance to Q. You must be a theologian and leave Scholarship to the unbiased, I presume.
2007-11-09 20:54:32 · answer #4 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
HEY? What about the 'Gospel of Thomas'?
Oh! That's right! It is because the earliest manuscripts of these and other questionable 'Gospels' are dated much later than the earliest surviving manuscripts of what WAS included in the 'Gospel'?
Amazing isn't it? That it seems that God was powerful enough to have excluded the 'spurious' writings in the style of other later questionable texts (Quran, Mormon) that people had tried to claim as being "God-inspired"?
Thumbs down-blah blah blah......do...dah..doo?
2007-11-09 20:40:41 · answer #5 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 5⤊ 3⤋
because it clears judas,s name, jesus and judas discussed the cruci"fiction"and also discussed the betrayal, jesus said to judas that he would be the one to disrobe him of his earthly flesh, because jesus thought he was going to be killed, but god saved him by letting him live,
2007-11-10 07:25:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Church, in the authority given to Her by Jesus Christ, discerned that it was not inspired writing.
2007-11-09 20:48:08 · answer #7 · answered by Danny H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it lacks the 'ring of truth'
2007-11-10 11:08:35 · answer #8 · answered by alan h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
editors didn't like it so much, writers' strike since first century prevented further negotiation of material
2007-11-09 20:44:32 · answer #9 · answered by MrPotatoHead 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What?
2007-11-09 20:41:51 · answer #10 · answered by Nels 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋