Sunburnt on Wednesday, May 10, 2006
I think it will be interesting to have SCV. For one, i would love to catch the Judas Gospel that is featured on National Geographic Channel. Angel told me that ChannelNews Asia is gona broadcast it and i wonder when the date is.
My youngest brother always got the lastest copy of National Geographic and the topics covered in each issue never fail to fascinate me. Of course, the lastest copy is about Judas' Gospel. It was termed as a heresy by the Orthodox Christians while some feel that it's the truth to the complete narrative description of Christ sacrifical role on the cross.
Angel was pretty disturbed by the scene where Jesus was kind of laughing at something, according to Judas' gospel. Many had thought that if Judas Iscariot wasn't around, there wouldn't be the famous kiss of betray, the hanging of guilt, which eventually led to the final persecution on the cross. Does that mean that Judas should be "best of the disciple"?
"you will be cursed", Jesus warned him. Is it really true that Jesus actually wanted Judas to betray him to fulfil the prophesy from the Old Testaments? These are questions running through my mind as i peruse the National Geographic mag. They will forever be controversies.
It took the experts five years to translate the ancient script of the Judas' Gospel which was made in papyrus. It was so brittle that it started to break with slight touch. Experts were using tweezers and in that five years, only 80% of the gospel is completely translated.
It was found an egyptian village trader who now had passed away, and the secret of how he had found the script remained unknown. His family members shunned away from the media and refuse to provide any information on that origin.
For those interested in knowing about how the gosepl looks like and what it really says after thousands of years, here is a wonderful link: http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/gospel/
below is an excerpt from the National Geographic website.
The second page of the Gospel of Judas presents a dramatically different retelling of a final meal Jesus shared with his disciples. "When he [approached] his disciples, [who had] gathered together and [were] seated and offering a prayer of thanksgiving over the bread, [he] laughed," reads the manuscript. "The disciples said to him, 'Master, why are you laughing at [our] prayer of thanksgiving? We have done what is right.' He answered and said to them, 'I am not laughing at you. [You] are not doing this because of your own will but because [it is through this that] your god [will be] praised.' " Jesus laughs, scholars say, because the disciples do not understand that the God of the Old Testament, to whom they direct their prayers, is not the true God. In this gospel, only Judas, the disciple reviled by orthodox Christians, understands God's true nature.
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