Judas the Anti-christ Hero

[Leo Volont]

Judas the Anti-Christ’s Hero I read in the Newspaper today that a new Dead Sea Scroll was found – the Gospel of Judas, a 3rd Century Coptic Text translated from an earlier Greek Edition. Its intent was to depict Christ discreetly telling Judas that he was really the favorite, as he would be most instrumental in facilitating the Redemptive Sacrifice. Now, let’s review. The Real Gospels tell us that Christ had strenuously prayed to be delivered from arrest and execution. We have Christ lamenting his own capture and torture – “Father, why hast Thou forsaken me”. Only the Gospel of John, written in the 2nd Century by a Paulist Greek, supposes that Christ had foreknowledge of his Crucifixion and somehow approved of it. But the general direction of the Synoptic gospels (Mark, Luke and Mathew that say about the same thing and keep about the same timeline, and of which the experts conclude that they are a mix of two distinct primary sources) is that Christ had come to set up a Messianic Kingdom and to instruct upon Righteousness and to warn of a coming Judgment. There was nothing about a Suicidal Sacrifice so that Humanity could then sin for free forever after. But that was what Paul would teach and it would be that Teaching, beyond any reference to anything Christ had taught, that would become the pillar and focus of Christian Doctrine. Well, the Prophet Simeon in the 2nd Chapter of Mathew warned, with his dying breath, the last Prophecy (by the way) that would come from the Hebraic Tradition of Prophecy, that “Christ would be contradicted”. And Christ Himself gave the Three Warnings: that the Wheat would be mixed with Weeds, that there would be a Wide Way of Destruction, and that a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing would come with a False Teaching. All the Protestant Paulists who swear up and down on the Bible have conveniently ignored these passages, and it seems when they say that the Bible is the Word of God, they intend that to refer only to the Letters of Paul. It is some measure of the twisted and perverted Theology of Paulist Salvation Doctrine, supposing as its basis that the Murder of Christ was a positive development, that it would somehow logically follow that Judas could then be considered the Foremost Hero of all the Apostles. In the World of the Antichrist it is a scheming Traitor that becomes the First in Heaven. This absurd but logical progression of Theology should serve to finally instruct both Catholic and Protestant on the extreme Error involved in believing even a single word of Paul, let alone canonizing all of his ridiculous 14 letters. Oh, and since there may be somebody idiotic enough to suppose the Gospel of Judas may be in any way true, maybe I really do need to point out that Judas had hung himself, and therefore was in no condition to leave behind a memoir.

[Asclepius]

Ideally scripture acts as a roadmap and textbook to bring us closer to God. Unfortunately it often becomes a form of idol where people view it as divine. If we can view scripture as the product of people (possibly receiving inspiration, but not themselves divine) then we should expect that the scriptures will reflect something of the people who write them. (For example they will be written in the language of the writer). I am not surprised that some Christians would believe that Jesus had foreknowledge of his death. If he was a divine incarnation he would have to! Similarly if you believe that his mission was to sacrifice himself for the sins of the world, then someone helping him achieve his mission was a positive enabler not an opponent. Personally I enjoy some of the non-canonical scriptures (e.g. Gospel of Thomas) for being more wisdom literature and less apocalyptic than the synoptic gospels.

[Leo Volont]

Originally posted by Asclepius Similarly if you believe that his mission was to sacrifice himself for the sins of the world, . You see, we have all been conditioned by constant exposure to accept this notion of forgiveness of sins as a 'good thing'. But, think about it. Would any decent person... any Messiah... do anything to encourage sin? If no decent person would encourage sin, then why does everybody suppose somebody, a Messiah, would go as far as dying so that people who should learn to behave themselves can instead sin with absolute and complete abandon because they are convinced that their Messiah died to make sin permissable? When we examine the sermons and the teachings of Christ, from the Synoptic Gospels, it becomes incomprehensible to suppose that a Messiah who had preached Righteousness and Judgment should completely change direction and instead have himself killed so that Righteousness could be dispensed with, and Judgement elluded. And about Christ knowing of his own Death. One would think that He would know His impending Fate, wouldn't one. But we must also consider that we are not meant to know what may well paralyze us. Remember the Legend of Cassandra. Prophecy is nearly always cryptic. The Curse of Cassandra -- of any Prophecy -- is that it will always be true and that nobody will ever believe it. If Christ had his suspicions that He was to die, well, up until the night before He was still praying for Life. Now there have been some people who can die at peace with themselves even with full knowledge. One of the most interesting end time prophecies come from one, Phil Kramer (search up "My Brief Experience of Eternity and what I saw" ) and in his account he speaks of a saintly uncle who had a premonition of his death and so he planned a family reunion for the day, and died surrounded by all those whom he loved and who loved him.