Gospel of Judas

[Paul Mackin]

On Apr 6, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Alex Hunley wrote:

> From NYT:  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/06/science/06cnd-judas.html
>
> Excerpt: "An early Christian manuscript, including the only known  
> text of what is known as the Gospel of Judas, has surfaced after  
> 1,700 years. The text gives new insights into the relationship of  
> Jesus and the disciple who betrayed him, scholars reported today.  
> In this version, Jesus asked Judas, as a close friend, to sell him  
> out to the authorities, telling Judas he will "exceed" the other  
> disciples by doing so...
>
> The account goes on to relate that Jesus refers to the other  
> disciples, telling Judas "you will exceed all of them. For you will  
> sacrifice the man that clothes me." By that, scholars familiar with  
> Gnostic thinking said, Jesus meant that by helping him get rid of  
> his physical flesh, Judas will act to liberate the true spiritual  
> self or divine being within Jesus."


Liberating by extension the divine illumination within us all.

But THAT happy thought must live side by side with the idea that the  
human body is the very worst  thing in the Material World.

Those Gnostics . . . .

My own view:

There is so much good in the worst of us
And so much bad in he best of us
That it ill behooves any of us
To belittle the rest of us.

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