interesting article
Apr. 6th, 2006 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizziebelleThe NY Times has an article about an early Christian manuscript, including the only known text of what is known as the Gospel of Judas, which has surfaced after 1,700 years. One thing I found particularly interesting:
Unlike the accounts in the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the anonymous author of the Gospel of Judas believed that Judas Iscariot alone among the 12 disciples understood the meaning of Jesus' teachings and acceded to his will. In the diversity of early Christian thought, a group known as Gnostics believed in a secret knowledge of how people could escape the prisons of their material bodies and return to the spiritual realm from which they came.
It goes on to talk about other Gnostic Gospels. I think that if this were the version of Christianity that I had been brought up in, I would possibly still be a Christian. At the very least, it would have saved me from the period of New Age wanderings I made in the early 80s. ;)
Unlike the accounts in the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the anonymous author of the Gospel of Judas believed that Judas Iscariot alone among the 12 disciples understood the meaning of Jesus' teachings and acceded to his will. In the diversity of early Christian thought, a group known as Gnostics believed in a secret knowledge of how people could escape the prisons of their material bodies and return to the spiritual realm from which they came.
It goes on to talk about other Gnostic Gospels. I think that if this were the version of Christianity that I had been brought up in, I would possibly still be a Christian. At the very least, it would have saved me from the period of New Age wanderings I made in the early 80s. ;)
