The Gospel of Judas, the Hidden Story of the Betrayal of Christ 2/8 (Dutch subs)

The Gospel of Judas is a Gnostic gospel purported to document conversations between the apostle Judas Iscariot and Jesus Christ. The document is not claimed to have been written by Judas himself, but rather by Gnostic followers of Jesus. It exists in an early fourth-century Coptic text, though it has been proposed, but not proven, that the text is a translation of an earlier Greek version. The Gospel of Judas is probably from no earlier than the second century, since it contains theology that is not represented before the second half of the second century, and since its introduction and epilogue assume the reader is familiar with the canonical Gospels. The original Coptic document has been carbon dated to AD 280, plus or minus 50 years.

According to the canonical Gospels of the New Testament, (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), Judas betrayed Jesus to Jerusalem's Temple authorities, which handed Jesus over to the prefect Pontius Pilate, representative of the occupying Roman Empire, for crucifixion. The Gospel of Judas, on the other hand, portrays Judas in a very different perspective than do the Gospels of the New Testament, according to a preliminary translation made in early 2006 by the National Geographic Society: the Gospel of Judas appears to interpret Judas's act not as betrayal, but rather as an act of obedience to the instructions of Jesus. This assumption is taken on the basis that Jesus required a second agent to set in motion a course of events which he had planned. In that sense Judas acted as a catalyst. The action of Judas, then, was a pivotal point which interconnected a series of simultaneous pre-orchestrated events.
This portrayal seems to conform to a notion current in some forms of Gnosticism, that the human form is a spiritual prison, and that Judas thus served Christ by helping to release Christ's spirit from its physical constraints. The action of Judas allowed him to do that which he could not do directly. The Gospel of Judas does not claim that the other disciples knew gnostic teachings. On the contrary, it asserts that the disciples had not learned the true Gospel, which Jesus taught only to Judas Iscariot.




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[deadtoo]

Surely there are (Latin) copies of these texts in the Vatican vaults.

[baeritukaez]

@deadtoo

There must be a LOT of stuff they hide from the public.

[cnce145]

@baeritukaez they work like the gorvernment lolll

[cnce145]

@deadtoo yeahh they know .

[pepehorhae]

if only photocopying machines existed before we'd have numerous copy of that

[pepehorhae]

@baeritukaez i wonder what its like in the pope's bathroom :)

[qfinch85]

and to my last post, to put trust in the Nicene Creed to tell us ok this book is good this one is false is Obscure!! The Vatican has so many New Testament books we will never ever ever ever ever see, and why?! Could it be Christ was married, could it be Judas was in fact the Good Guy and the agnostic gospel writters were truely resentful of him so slandered his name? Who knows, but I promise this. Those who held these books from public that actually had value to mankind. Well Hell awaits those!

[qfinch85]

So bring it on "Scholars" lmao!!!!!!! Strike me down with my theology. If we were to add all the gnostic writtings with the agnostic ones the New Testament would have at least 18 more books, Book of Thomas being one, is considered Gnostic and not trustworthy and I have read this book 4 times now and see nothing Gnostic about it, it sounds like the Christ of the Bible to me. This is what happens when political religous leaders call the shots. You get 50% of the story! what BS!

[qfinch85]

Thus pre-destination is the only explaination cause God knows us while we were in our mothers womb and has already laid out our plan, don't sound NOTHING like free-will too me!!

[qfinch85]

I don't understand because Christ HAD TO DIE! So did not Judas do exactly what had to be done? But, if this is not true then we do NOT have freewill, because all through the old testament Christ betrayal is foretold of being betrayed for silver and something of a quote in psalms I believe ," my friend has struck me with his heel". So if Judas pre-destined future has already been written over 1000yrs before his birth then Freewill is Non-Existent and is a lie, because technically he had no choice

[EruditeScythian]

Bart Ehrman has written a book about this. Good read.

[yharara88]

Hey.. Guess what Christians?

Islam's Book (Quran) already says that jesus was not crucified!!!

God Says in Nisaa Sura :

And [for] their saying, "Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah ." And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him; but [another] was made to resemble him to them. And indeed, those who differ over it are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except the following of assumption. And they did not kill him, for certain"