Judas

JerrySmith[MvP]...you've been reading online text haven't you?

The Gospel of Barnabas was accepted as a Canonical Gospel in the Churches of Alexandria till 325 C.E. and was taught throughout the known Christian world well into the 1800's.
The texts you are obviously reading are laden with interpolations and revisions...I've read the original text in English and there is no mention of Muhammad, or Judas taking the rap for Jesus, or anything like that.
Scripture is wrought with interpolations and inaccuracies and revisions...for years Christians used Josephus' ( the period Jewish historian ) brief mention of Jesus as proof of his existence...( and the only mention of him outside of Christian transcripts ) but that brief mention was later proven to have been ' added ' much later and not by Josephus.
Josephus does mention John the Baptist...but doesn't mention Yeshua ( Jesus' Hebrew name ) at all.

Non-canonical scripture is much more prone to revision and interpolation than even canonical scripture...

don't believe everything you read.

And that includes the Gospel of Judas.

Sorry Guys and all!

I'm a Roman Catholic myself but the subject is by itself STICKY!

In any drinking session, males end up mauling (or worse, killing one another) when the topic of discussion turns to (in proper order):
a. Religion,
b. Politics,
c. Another's wife (or girlfriend).

The fact is many have long suspected (or theorized) that the "ultimate sacrifice" was actually an orchestration; although how such events would have been predicted through so many vague parables escapes the philosophical inquisitor.

IMO, [almost] everything was lost in translation (and even attempts at transliteration). Ergo, for both gnostics and agnostics, it is a matter of personal belief--and pursuing that belief to the hilt!

My apologies if I'm putting a damper on this thread... but

PEACE!

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Palestine - that is, they form no part of the Hebrew scriptures,

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One would hope the gospels of Christ do not form the Hebrew scriptures.

Egal, no one believes everything they read. But they do not completely flush it down the toilet either. They ponder it. Swish it around then have a beer and put some steak sauce on it.