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I can't understand their point about this Gospel. It's been around forever, I read it several years ago. I thought all catholics even had it in their bibles, isn't it part of a good accordiance?
Quote from: El trauma el Inmigrante Profesional on May 14, 2006, 10:28:47 PMI can't understand their point about this Gospel. It's been around forever, I read it several years ago. I thought all catholics even had it in their bibles, isn't it part of a good accordiance?Well it contradicts what the other 4 say. Matt, Mark, Luke, and John all say Judas betrayed Jesus and this one says Judas only did it because Jesus told him to. Now I don't know what really happened but I'm sure in the eyes of the church they treat Judas's explanation as Judas trying to releive his guilt, which they don't believe was accomplished since by all accounts Judas shortly after committed suicide.
You missed my point. Why are they running news stories recently about this book, when it's been around forever? There's nothing newsworthy about something old, that's my point.
Nah... they have another book (It may be bound with their bible, I'm not positive) with several deleted gospels and books of the bible. ...For instance there's a book written by Mary Magdaline. Many of the books have been discredited as fakes written hundreds of years after they were claimed to have been written, but you know how biblical archaelogy goes, if you want to you can discredit everything in the bible and every book as a fake. So I was under the impression that the Catholic church had an entire collection of these books that they considered sacred and such, but weren't really part of the 'holy canon' for whatever reason... the book of Judas is one of those, I read it several years ago. There's been several newsstories in the past week about the book though, I was wondering why they're talking about it so much now, it's not new.