Gospel of Judas...

[inochiken]

So what do you kids think? New manuscripts dug up claiming to be the long-lost "Gospel of Judas". In a nut shell, Judas is Jesus the Nazarene's close friend, and does what he's so famous for because Jesus asked him to do it. There's also some highly mystical stuff in there that reads a little crazy-like, but most of the accepted and non-accepted

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[animate]

I read three or four books on the gnostic gospels a few years back. I used to really be interested in the whole cannonization process. I like to mess with fundies heads and some of those books (the ones that have been proven to be real) are good material.

What do I think? Well, not much nowadays. They are interesting, but I don't think they'll "change what Jesus taught". No one will ever know what he really taught, with all the translations and interpretations that have been made over hundreds of years. These gospels don't really change what they say, as much as they contradict what he already "says" - which alot of the Bible does anyway.

I'm doing my final research paper (for English 111) on atheism, so I may bring up these contradictions if I have room (I can't type more than 7 pages double-spaced, bleh).

When I was a Xtian I really had heart for Judas though. I always side with the underdawg. He may have "sold that nigga out" and had him killed, but then again, Christ said, "Why have you forsaken Me?" to God, and not Judas.

[inochiken]

I'm always interested about what new info means to the average Christian (if anything). My beliefs are always constantly being challenged, re-evaluated, and altered/re-enforced by the stuff I learn about, and I wonder about people in their own religions.

It's never so much what he taught, as it is how people are instructed to interpret what he taught. I mean, Jesus himself simply explained that while Jews at the time were "doing things right", they weren't "doing the right thing

Right.

[animate]

You summed it right up, in the end there. The view you have of him seems to be the same as the view Muslims have.

Re: Right.

[inochiken]

I guess. I had thought that I had been raised as a Christian, but when I got to my first real church and heard everyone praying to Jesus instead of the man upstairs, I realized that something was wrong. I had mistakenly believed as a child that Christians were people who were basically like Jews but followed the additional teachings of Jesus. When church people told me that Jesus was G-d, but a separate person at the same time, I had to get off the boat. Apparently, I was raised on the "old" testament, but never learned just how separate a religion Christianity had become.

I'm not Muslim because I just barely know what their takes even are, so I just identify myself as a bastard child of Judaism. You do what you got to do.

Honestly, I don't think beliefs can be pigeon-holed into a particular religion...