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But Is Its Story True? – NY Times

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The real debate is whether the text says anything historically legitimate about Jesus and Judas. * * *  To say that the Gospel of Judas reveals anything factual about Judas, Dr. [Ben] Witherington said, “is like saying a document written 150 years after George Washington died tells us the inside truth about George Washington.” * * *

“If the Gospel of Judas suddenly became something that hundreds of thousands of Christians were claiming as their revelation and scripture, perhaps the church would come out with some kind of statement,” Father [Donald] Senior said in an interview. “But mostly I think it’s just not even on the radar screen.”

He added, “I’m just glad it wasn’t found in a bank vault in the Vatican.”

Laurie Goodstein, Document Is Genuine, but Is Its Story True?, NY Times, Apr. 7, 2006.

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  1. dr. steven e. lloyd Avatar
    dr. steven e. lloyd

    witherington’s book fails miserably in many,many ways..it is widely proposed that the first four books of the NEW TESATMENT were written approx. 60+ years after the life of JESUS…they have an ovewhelming feminine flare to them.. since most of what MATTHEW,MARK,LUKE & JOHN stated was passed along verbally as was the method of discourse back then, could they be any less accurate than a document written 150 years after the passsing of GEORGE WASHINTON?

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