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To: laney

When did he have time to write a gospel?


3 posted on 12/19/2005 7:23:27 AM PST by sandbar
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To: sandbar
When did he have time to write a gospel?

Presumably between the time he was hanging on the tree until his rotten body fell off and he burst.

6 posted on 12/19/2005 7:25:29 AM PST by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: sandbar
Hah, good point. I wonder why they didn't point that out in the article.
8 posted on 12/19/2005 7:26:44 AM PST by bahblahbah
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To: sandbar

It's probably not "his" but a description of what his gospel would look like if he did one. Quite a bit of that went on back then.

The Devil using Judas to kill Christ is one of the greatest ironies. Satan thinks he scored a great victory and ends up wearing Gatorade while his team suffers a huge loss.


9 posted on 12/19/2005 7:27:04 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: sandbar
When did he have time to write a gospel?
Another scholar, Charles Hedrick, who recently retired from Missouri State University, saw photographs of six damaged pages from the gospel in 2001. Hedrick agreed with Robinson that the original Gospel of Judas was probably written in Greek in the second century AD. Scholars also agree that the scribal hand used in the Coptic translation would date that text to the fourth or fifth century.

Apparently, as with most of the gospels, a century or so after the death of the attributed author. A few of Paul's epistles excepted, of course.

22 posted on 12/19/2005 7:57:40 AM PST by Antonello (Oh my God, don't shoot the banana!)
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To: sandbar; laney

Somehow I can't imagine this to be really authentic, because Judas wasn't around for the Resurrection, nor the Ascension. On top of that, wasn't it commonly thought at the time of the Apostles that Our Lord would return in their own lifetimes, and so no written versions were even recorded until many years after His Death and Resurrection?


35 posted on 12/19/2005 8:26:36 AM PST by Ohioan from Florida (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)
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To: sandbar

When did he have time to write a gospel?

It's probably fake. And why would I want to read a "gospel" from the dude who betrayed my Lord? What on earth does he have to offer me since most likely he's in the "hot place"?

Its probably fake.


117 posted on 12/19/2005 11:10:18 AM PST by brwnsuga (Proud, Black, Conservative!)
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