I just attempted to read the Gospel of Judas I am totally lost HELP?
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I watched the Discovery Channel show all about it, and all I can say is God help us. It is NOT right by any means. Jesus would NEVER say that Judas would surpass the rest of the apostles and enter Heaven that "no angel has ever set eyes on" (which is what is said in this Gospel). This Gospel scares me, nothing good has surrounded it's finding (after finding it, it has been stolen and sought after greedily, and twisted peoples morals in a bad way), and nothing good will come from it. That is my opinion.\nTake care and God Bless
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3rd or 4th-century document called "The Gospel of Judas" was launched upon an unsuspecting world yesterday by no less a biblical authority than the National Geographic magazine in Washington. Its contents were "explosive", according to Mario Roberty, president of the Swiss foundation which now owns the ancient papyrus manuscript. \n\nSo as the heat faded from the television lights at the press conference, has 2000 years of orthodox Christianity been overturned? Well, not quite. But it was all jolly interesting, for those who love that sort of thing.\n\nHalf of the 62-page codex, written in Coptic script, is devoted to an account of the final days of Jesus Christ written from the viewpoint of the man who has for two millennia been excoriated as Christ's deadly betrayer. The text begins: "The secret account of the revelation that Jesus spoke in conversation with Judas Iscariot three days before he celebrated Passover..."
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I can't say if it's real or not.  But I think whatever religion you follow, you should check out it's scriptures.  It's important to be able to control your own mind and not rely so much on an outside source.  What's more important than a religion's history is how you practice. I have read that around three dozen or more books were left out of the bible.  It might be interesting to learn what they read and why they were left out.  Maybe it was felt they were unimportant or redundant.  I don't know.  I have read this Gospel of Judas and I don't see anything negative about it.  But this is only my opinion.
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I just checked out the Gospel of Judas the other day @ the local B&N. Wow. It felt like a part of history jumping into my hands.\n\nKnowing what Judas was to become; reading what depictions he'd written of Jesus; the pieces of text felt so raw with emotion. They felt so real. Knowing the ending of the story of course, did make some of the pre-betrayal friendliness tough to swallow.\n\nThis brought me to the realization that these newer books need to be included, don't they? I haven't asked my priest at church, but a newer version has to be in the works.\n\nForget about red tape, just order the entries and publish the thing.\n\nWith the Da Vinci Code getting more publicity than the Dead Sea Scrolls, now'd be a pretty good time to release a newer, fuller edition of The Bible.\n\nThanks for answering my last question,\n\n-Justin
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I think the only place you should seek help is through prayer and the Bible, with common assistant books like a concordance and perhaps a Bible dictionary.\n\nPaul talked about how his message was from God, not man.  We should follow his example and let the Holy Spirit work through us.\n\nLet God's Holy Spirit teach you the Bible...and you will discover some magnificent things -- that others may disagree with, but you'll know are true...because you received them directly from the Author.
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<squeeee>  Where'd you get *that bible??  I want one too!!  The bible I read didn't say cool stuff like that.  drat.  I was robbed!
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The 3rd Century Judas gospel presents a different interpretation of the live of Jesus and how Judas follow his destiny. It is a work created to support other ideas. But who wrote it?\n\nNot Judas, he committed suicide after Jesus was risen from the death. Yes, Judas was there just before Jesus ascended. But Judas did not belief and he commitment suicide. (You can find that in the Gospels from the first century.) A very different picture that Judas Gospel presents.\n\nSo we have partial information the Judas Gospel that does not fit in the new testament. Why? It is a hundred years after the new testament was codified.\n\nWe have another document from the third century near where other documents (Gnostic) were found. Gnostic may be a different interpretation of the new testament, but do not follow main Christian thought. Gnostic means "by knowing".
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I don't know the answer to your Q, but I think I can help you find it for yourself.\nTry to recall any words that you can remember of what wat read, and them look those words up in a concordance or online Bible site such as www.biblegateway.com\n\nit might take some time, but I'm sure you will be able to find it (and might just come up with some interesting Bible reading in the proccess.)
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The "gospel of Judas" is an oxymoron. Gospel means "good news". What is so great about the man who was possessed by Satan, betrayed Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver, then hung himself when it was all over????
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This is JUST FOR YOU..., because you are special. Pick up your Bible and read 1st and 2nd Peter.  Read it as if the Apostle Peter wrote it to your church and it's your turn to read it.\n\nBefore you read it, ask God to help you understand all that you are about to read.  You may not see the point - but just do it. I think by the time you are finished, you will have  a unique perspective.\n\nLove you in Christ Jesus, as a brother to a sister.
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"For the Son of Man is to go just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born." \n\nMark 14:21 \n\nDoes that really sound like someone you want for a role model?  The gospel of Judas was excluded from the Bible for good reason; it was not the inspired Word of God, and is therefore heresy.  The Bible clearly warns against this.\n\n"I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book;"\n\nRevelation 22:18
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LOL. You must be suffering from having a 'jaundiced eye' syndrome and prefer to extract only the things that you want out of the Bible.\n\nI suggest that you open your eyes a little bit more and you shall see what you've been missing all along. Learn from the parables if you can.\n\nPeace be with you...
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Go cry it on the mountain.\n\nBTW.  There are 65 other Books, in the Bible.\n\nYour never going to get your Scholarship in Theo. Like this.\n\nGood Luck.
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There IS supporting evidence that proves that is was indeed written at the time it should have been. Christians refuse to believe in anything to do with it, simply because it would shred a major part of the Christ myth. It's amazing - even with the knowlegde they have of how the bible was constructed, and even knowing that many books were taken out of the bible as being heresy, they refuse to admit it might possibly be true. Why is it so hard to believe?  It was Judas' destiny to do it! And Jesus must have known that, too! If Judas was, as the text says, Jesus' favorite, and the one chosen, why is that bad? Jesus knew he had to die, he even knew where and how. All Judas did was help the prophecy be fulfilled. And to say his family wrote it to clear Judas' name is just stupid. Be open minded, people! You say you're enlightened by the Word - then you should be able to look at this with open minds.
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I watched the special on National Geographic. Have they made the text available to read anywhere?\n\nBased on the information that was given on the National Geographic premiere...I firmly believe that Jesus chose Judas to sacrifice him. Someone had to do it and he wanted Judas to be the one. The thing that gets me is that when Jesus tells Judas that he will be known as deceitful person for many, many years but in the END, the truth will be known. Wow, that means we know now....does that mean that we are really close to the end?\n\nI would love to look at it more in depth when they release it; if you know anywhere it has been published, please let me know.
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it is HERETICAL. I heard parts of it read and I could not believe my ears it is a joke. Christians do not need to worry.\n\nThe "Gospel of Judas": National Geographic Attacks Christianity With Biased "Research"\nhttp://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/gospel_judas.html
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Jesuit scholar says Gospel of Judas does not merit name 'Gospel'\n\nBy Cindy Wooden\nCatholic News Service\n\nROME (CNS) -- The Gospel of Judas was unimportant to most Christians when it was written hundreds of years ago and it is unimportant today, said a Jesuit professor who has convoked a series of ecumenical studies of the historical Jesus. \n\nJesuit Father Gerald O'Collins, a longtime professor of Christology at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, said the text, like the gospels of Mary Magdalene and Philip, "does not merit the name 'Gospel.'" \n\nThe National Geographic Society unveiled the document April 6, posting a copy of it on the society's Web site, www.nationalgeographic.com, and releasing English translations of portions of the text.\n\n"A 'Gospel' is a literary genre -- established by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John -- focusing on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus," Father O'Collins said. \n\nWhile including events supposedly related to the life of Jesus, the Gospel of Judas and the others really are texts "attempting to bolster the importance" of the personalities they are named after, not of Jesus, the priest said. \n\n"They are not summaries of the good news," he said.\n\nThe texts come from the gnostic tradition, a religious-philosophical current popular in the second, third and fourth centuries. The gnostics claimed to have secret knowledge unavailable to the vast majority of people and focused so strongly on the spiritual and intellectual that they despised material creation, including the human body. \n\nIn the year 180, St. Irenaeus condemned the gnostics, mentioning particularly a Gospel of Judas.\n\nFather O'Collins said the most important thing about the text released in early April is that "it shows just how right Irenaeus was in saying the gnostics were against mainstream Christianity and Judaism, they were against our God." \n\n"To give Judas greater credit," the Jesuit said, the gnostics "portray Jesus giving him secret knowledge. It was a nice try," but there is no evidence to support the claim.\n\n"It was junk then and it is junk now," he said .\n\nFather O'Collins, who between 1996 and 2003 convoked a series of ecumenical, interdisciplinary summits for scholars on the historical Jesus, said it was "ridiculous" for anyone to claim publication of the Gospel of Judas will challenge mainstream Christianity. \n\nEND