The Gospel of Judas, the Hidden Story of the Betrayal of Christ 4/8 (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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[Wolfsbane909]

@bhong32 u are forgetting the main message. The kingdom of god doesn't exist in the wood or stones of a church but rather within the heart of man. (NOT that people should stop going 2 church)

"Ladies & gentlemen JESUS has left the building!"

[KayBeeEee1983]

Gnosticism is true Christianity.

[1993MovieMan]

@KayBeeEee1983 Indeed . Though born Catholic , I have been Atheist and now consider myself Unitarian with Neo-Gnostic and Neo-Pagan leanings . That is , I do believe in a higher power , maybe even more than one but don`t claim to know what that is or its will .

[changingmyself]

4 pillars of the earth- the 4 sons of Horus.

[roza888]

at my website you can see my installation inspired on the gospel of Judas, just type

double u, double u, double u, dot, rozastegeman dot c o m

[WBFbySteefen]

What was too complicated for canon for early church leaders may not be too complicated for today. Steefen, author of The Greatest Bible Study in Historical Accuracy

[maxbatch70]

The church, priests, pastors, imams, bishops, pope, etc. needs the people, without the people, the church could not exist, the people do not need the church, priests, etc. God is true, religion is nonsense.

[Wolfsbane909]

@13thmistral Yep, i couldn't agree more.

[13thmistral]

@Wolfsbane909 yea, true funadation people, they never will relize how stupid they make themselves look like in the eyes of the smarter ones

[Barreto7x7x7]

Christianity is a complete LIE. To learn the real truth go to 4shared.com and search for the word Jmmanuel and look there for a file with 9,873 KB | 2009-12-08 | File name: The-Real-New-Testament-The-Tal­mud-of-Jmmanuel-Person-Known-N­owadays-as-Jesus-Forgery-in-Ch­ristianity.pdf

[Wolfsbane909]

@Smashmouthj Ok, lemme pick a quote out of the bible from random to answer that question. AGAIN THESE ARE NOT MY WORDS, NOR IS THIS EVEN MY BOOK, JUST REPEATING VER BATIUM!!

JOB 6 - JOB 6:15-my own brothers have dealt treacherously, like a winter torrent, like the channel of winter torrents that keep passing away. They are dark from ice, upon them snow hides itself...."

For u personally I pull this quote out..ACTS 25:1-25:17

ACTS 25:9 "Do u wish to go up to Jerusalem.."?

-New testament..