What will the gospel of Judas do for Christianity if anything?
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Its another fake Gospel written by an early christian sect who obviously had no contact with Jesus, the disciples or the disciples followers. It was common for christian sects with no direct link to church founders to create bogus gospels to support there beliefs.\nIf the gospel is real it would have been mentioned somewhere in the ancient history or copies of it would have surfaced elsewhere. Not to mention a true gospel always matches with what the rest of the bible says.\nPeople have a bad habit of thinking if a text is old then it must be a part of Gods word.  This is not true!
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I have to say absolutely yes, he did forgive him because he knew what was going to happen.  He knew why he was here.  He knew from the first what his destiny was.  When he spoke to Judas at the last supper and told him to do what he had to do, he knew.  When he was praying in the garden, he knew.  When the soldiers came to take him, he knew.\n\nWhether you buy the theory now being talked about from the manuscript being called The Gospel of Judas, that he was Jesus' favorite, and the only one he could trust to do the deed, or whether you think he was a weasel and a betrayer, it changes not one bit that Jesus knew his reason for being here and the "betrayal" was part of the plan.  Judas being a willing friend, or a "traitor" doesn't change the outcome or the certainty it was going to happen.  Anyways, Jesus was here for forgivness of ALL mankinds sins and that includes Judas.
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According to the translation, Jesus directed Judas to turn him in.
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I tend to believe that when Judas realized that he was tricked by the sanhedrin, he was so filled with guilt and remorse that he took his own life. Of the two options, climbing a tall tree with a short rope seems to be the quickest.
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Mark: You think the pseudopigraphical gospels would make Christianity more loving? Here's a quote from the one you mentioned, the Gospel of Thomas:\n\n(114) Simon Peter said to him, "Let Mary leave us, for women are not worthy of life." \nJesus said, "I myself shall lead her in order to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every woman who will make herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven."\n\n\nSo women are not worthy of life, Jesus agrees. But He'll make her a man (as all women should) so she can be worthy!\n\nDo you know what Pseudopigraphal means? It means someone wrote it, and stuck someone else's name on it. That's what almost all the extra Gospels did. Gospel of Thomas was NOT written by Thomas. Gospel of Philip was NOT written by Philip. Gospel of Judas was NOT written by Judas. They were written by gnostics 200 years after the events (or more). \nIn contrast, the gospels the early church accepted were known to be written by the Disciples themselves, in the lifetimes of the disciples.That's why they're considered reliable, not because of some vast white male christian roman conspiracy. But because of use of plain old logic and unstoopid-ness.\n\nLet's use an example. If we were to talk about Abraham Lincoln, we could investigate books written by people who hung out with Lincoln himself. That would correspond nicely with the New Testament. Or, we could read a book written by the guy at the local new age bookstore  yesterday who called it "The Autobiography of General Grant." That corresponds nicely with the gospels everyone who doesn't know what they're talking about wants to say represents early christianity. Written 140 years after the fact, or written by eyewitnesses. \nTell me folks, which source would you trust for your info on Abraham Lincoln?\n\n-Stephen\nAs for the extra books:\n\nFor forever, the church had a section of writings called the Deutero-Canon (which means '2nd canon.') and they were esteemed writings but not quite on the level as the rest of the Bible.\nWell, when the Protestant Reformation took place, alot of reformers (especially Martin Luther) said "What do we have this crap around for?!?!? Either it's Bible, or it's not!" which sounds perfectly logical to your average person today, but at the time (and even now, if we stop to weigh things) it was a pretty contreversial thing to say.\nSo Luther cut that stuff out.\nSo the Catholic Church responded by saying "Fine, then IT IS Bible!" and put it in with the rest of the Bible, exactly the same. So it didn't have a 2nd tier of authority right behind the regular Bible, it became part of the regular Bible.\n\nThis is (part of) what Protestants call the Apocrypha.\nSo now you understand the debate.\n\nVery few major doctrines are based on the Apocrypha (although the idea of Purgatory finds it's strongest support there), but there are various works of various merit.
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No, Judas was set up to make it appear that he betrayed Jesus. He was framed.
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honestly, i need to know more about the facts surrounding the gospel of judas before i make any analysis.  that being said, i think this is a gimmick to promote the da vinci code movie.
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the gospel of judas was written in 300 ad in egypt, it a gnostic gospel , judas had nothing to do with writing this gospel. the gnostics also wrote other gospels like nathans stevens and marys among others, gnostics could be compared to new age believers today who think knowledge is the ultimate goal of humanity. theyve turned satan, in the garden of eden, into good character , now you want me to believe a gospel from the gnostics about judas is true when they believe satan is a good guy because of his knowledge .. come on
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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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If ppl believe other Gospels....they should also take Gospel of Judas into consideration...
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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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nope. there are quite a few false "gospels" that different sects like the gnostics wrote that are not in accordance with the rest of the Bible. its interesting historically and teaches us more about these sects, but it doesnt mean that it was ever part of maintstream Christianity or that its true. the gospel of judas sounds like pretty typical gnostic stuff- the flesh is bad, the spirit is good, judas was helping Jesus get rid of the bad flesh, only certain special people get special knowledge... nothing particularly new, just dealing with judas.
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This isn't going to be universally accepted, but I believe Judas Iscariot did enter Heaven.  I'm not basing this opinion on the last biblical references to Judas, but on a deeper understanding of his role in the Big Picture.\n\nIn order for the scriptures to be fulfilled, the Messiah HAD to be betrayed.  Without the trial and execution, Jesus would not have become the sacrificial Lamb or the intermediary between mankind and God.  It fell upon Judas, who was the disciple most affiliated with militant Jews, to accept the prophesied thirty pieces of silver.  \n\nWhen Jesus spoke to Judas in the Garden of Gethsemane, He ordered Judas to do whatever he needed to do 'quickly'.  Jesus couldn't afford for his appointed betrayer to change his mind at the last minute.  Judas had to play out his role, despite the personal costs.  \n\nJudas may not have realized his higher calling in this matter, so he succumbed to his human feelings of abandonment, betrayal and loss.  His suicide was the last act of a man convinced he had sent his best friend to die a horrible death.\n\nIn my opinion, Judas Iscariot would have been allowed into Heaven because he fulfilled a part of God's plan.  We human Christians may want to see Judas as the ultimate betrayer, but the way I see it he had little choice in the matter.  Someone had to betray Jesus in order for Him to fulfill his earthly mission and return to the Kingdom.  I would even go as far as suggesting the Jews understood that only the true Messiah would be rejected by His own people.  Had they voted to release Jesus instead of Barrabas, they would have denied their own prophecies concerning the last days of the true Messiah.
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The "Dead Sea Scrolls" don't prove that the Jesus of the Bible was a real person, nor do they prove that such a person performed the miracles attributed to him. \n\n"Noah's Ark" has never been found. That was a hoax and has been well-documented. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/ark-hoax.html\n\nJust like all the other gospels, Judas' gospel proves nothing. The gospels in the Christian bible as we have it today, were written by anonymous authors, decades after Jesus' alleged death, with numerous contradictions, and they weren't eyewitness accounts.\n\nLaws aren't based on Christian principles. The idea of not killing one another, and treating others as you'd have them treat you, have been around much longer than Christianity has. In fact, the so-called "golden rule" was taught by Buddha hundreds of years before the Jesus story popped up.\n\nIf you want to look at Christian principles, let's see what Jesus allegedly said:\n\nLuke 14:26\nIf any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. (The word "hate" in that verse is "miseo", the Greek word. The same one from which we get other words that indicate hatred, like "misogynist." It definitely means HATE.)\n\nMatthew 10:35-36\nI am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.\n\nLuke 19:27\nBut those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. (This one is a parable, but read it and make no mistake: who do you think the king is?)\n\nMark 14:3-7\nYe have the poor with you always. (Here, expensive oil is used on Jesus. Instead of using the oil to sell to provide money for the poor, this was his response: "You'll always have the poor." How compassionate.)\n\nThe fact that the Christian religion is supposed to fulfill Judaism, yet completely contradicts it should be more than enough evidence to undermine Christianity, but the ignorance of Christians when it comes to the origins of their own religion prevents them from looking beyond what they're taught at church.\n\nChristianity is supposed to be the "fulfillment" of the "Old Testament" - if so, the Jewish Bible is what must be used to determine what such fulfillment will consist of. Using the Jewish Bible, it can be shown that to date, no one has come who has fulfilled the requirements of the Jewish Messiah. Furthermore, the Messiah was only ever for the Jews - not the Gentiles - so even if Jesus *had* been the Messiah, it wouldn't concern a non-Jew, anyway.\n\nOutside of the Christian bible, which was written by a combination of anonymous authors and Paul (a self-confessed liar), there is nothing to support the existence of an historical Jesus whatsoever. There is nothing that is both historical and contemporary to show that there ever was a Jesus of the Christian bible at all. The so-called Josephus passage that is often cited, was not contemporary (Josephus never saw Jesus, let alone met him), and that single passage is agreed by the majority of historians to be a forgery. After all, if he truly believed Jesus to be "the Christ", why was only ONE sentence devoted to Jesus in all his writings, and why did Josephus himself remain a Jew? Not very convincing.\n\nExtraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I, too, was once a wide-eyed believer. I truly believed with every fibre of my being that Jesus was Lord. Then I saw the light.\n\nI strongly recommend you research your claims and your supposed evidence a little more thoroughly. They're the same pieces of "evidence" that I once believed existed as well.\n\nGood luck on your journey.
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Historically, yes Jesus spread a message of love and peace, whether it was of god's love is debatable (I know I probably pissing of a lot of Christians right now, but I really don't care). Jesus never wanted to be "the son of god" or "a messiah" all he wanted to do was spread love, peace and goodness to those he knew; so what happened to him? He was crucified. What the hell kind of message is that? If I were a Christian I would be ashamed to believe in a religion where being peaceful and spreading love ended in death; and if Jesus could actually see how Christians have misinterpreted his intentions than I'm sure he would hang his head in shame as well.
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The background of The Gospel of Judas is in itself an interesting tale no matter what you think of it's contents.\n\nThe manuscripts were touted round the "gray market" for years before being purchased. According to their owner, Dr. Mario Roberty, the manuscripts are papyrus and consist of:\n\n- a Gnostic codex in Sahidic dialect containing:\n\nthe 'Gospel of Judas'\nthe "First Apocalypse of James" \nthe "Epistle of Peter to Philip"\n\n- the 'Book of Exodus' in Greek\n- 'Letters of Paul' in Sahidic dialect and a\n- 'Mathematical Treatise' in Greek.\n\nPublication of a translation is planned by the National Geographic Magazine.\n\nAccording to wikipedia "The National Geographic Channel will be airing a special entitled "The Gospel of Judas" on April 9, 2006 at 8 pm" as well.
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Absolutely Jesus will.\n\nMatthew 26:64\n"Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied. "But I say to all of you: In the future you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven."\n\nChristians like me awaits his coming.