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I believe that the Gospel of Judas is more accurate than the Gospels in the New Testament because those Gospels have been corrupted by the Church in order to give the Church more power while the Gospel of Judas has remained untouched.

the gospel of judas is an important historical find. it gives us a view into the beliefs of a branch of christianity that lost out in the theology debates

i dont see, however, why a book that dates to 300ad should be considered more religiously correct than the current bible.

i dont see, however, why a book that dates to 300ad should be considered more religiously correct than the current bible.
Don't all the gospels date to about that time?

the gospel of judas is an important historical find. it gives us a view into the beliefs of a branch of christianity that lost out in the theology debates

i dont see, however, why a book that dates to 300ad should be considered more religiously correct than the current bible.
I'll agree with this point here.

To be honest I cannot say one way or the other at this point. I need more data!

does it really matter?

Don't all the gospels date to about that time?
OmniWiki! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel#Origin_of_the_canonical_Gospels)
If by "about that time" you mean "give or take a couple centuries", then yes.
Personally, I don't.

Don't all the gospels date to about that time?


Not quite... Mark (the earliest) was written at around 70/80 AD and the other three were written in the couple of decades that followed

The document itself exists and is not a forgery, it is not false in that sense, so I have to assume that you are questioning the veracity of the content, and that is an unanswerable question.

religiously correct

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well i suppose the OP is suggesting that it is more accurate to what happened in the life of jesus than what is in the new testament. i dont find that likely.

Where's The Third Way? Or 'Mu'?

I don't think the others were corrupted, they were just chosen because they fitted the image well.
In that way, the gospel by Judas is worth reading for christians, it'll show them there's more then one way to look at things ;)

there are many books not used in the bible like the apogriphiya a seiries of books
that have nothing to do with christianity.. do you realize that Judas killed him self so by going against the christain beleif he should not have any credit

there are many books not used in the bible like the apogriphiya a seiries of books
that have nothing to do with christianity.. do you realize that Judas killed him self so by going against the christain beleif he should not have any credit

I don't recall reading anywhere in the New Testament that suicide is a sin....

Like I said, the New Testament Gospels were manipulated by the Church to portray the Church in a positive light and to give them more power. Read "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" and you'll have some idea of what I'm talking about.