Well...

I was able to catch a story about this on Primetime last night. I had to rest my mind for a bit and was going to watch the nightly news.

It is a team established by National Geographic that is working on the document. The one thing that stuck out to me was a statement made about how Judas has always been associated with "the Jews". They were saying that this will show him in a new light--a positive one. If this is the case, I wonder how this will affect many Christians views about Jews.

I just found the story online.
Here:
abcnews.go.com/Primetime/...169&page=1

Quote:
"Often they think of him as somebody who was greedy, avaricious, who was more interested in making money than in being faithful to his master," said Bart Ehrman, chair of the religious studies department at the University of North Carolina.

And Judas over the centuries also became a symbol of anti-Semitism.

"Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews," Ehrman said. "Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Christ-killers. And this portrayal of Judas of course also leads then to horrendous acts of anti-Semitism through the centuries."

But what if there were more to the story?

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Quote:
But while the document is a real one, is what it claims also true? Did the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John get it wrong? Did Jesus askJudas to betray him?



"I don't think that we have in this Gospel what I would call historical proof," Pagels said. "We also don't have that in the other Gospels."



She said there may never be an answer. "I don't see how we would, although you see we could always find next week or in 50 years other evidence that we don't have now."



In the end, science may have its answers, but questions of spirit and soul cannot be analyzed like a piece of papyrus. If Judas did not betray Jesus and was part of a grand plan, does that change anything for Christian theology?

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In my opinion, this does leave Christian theology in question.

Be well,
Gretta