The Gospel of Judas

[Sethomas]

The Catholic Encyclopedia mentioned the Gospel of Judas back in like 1911. It's written far too late to be considered canonical by any means. It's written by a fringe group who were only "Christian" because it seemed like a trendy way to revamp their whackjob beliefs. I don't see how this could possibly prove anything, seeing as it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for Jesus to have a conversation that was somehow remembered for 250 years before being written down, despite the popularity of written gospels predating it. It would literally be like Dick Cheney sitting down and writing an addendum to the Federalist Papers.

So, for the sake of knowledge as for how it concerns scholars of Gnosticism, sure, this is a great find. Nothing in it would be particularly shocking, since it's tautological that the Gnostics would elevate Judas as simply "fulfilling his role".

Back in 1999/2000, I got over a hundred theological queries by email, and most of them asked about the Gospel of Thomas. The movie Stigmata made it sound like nobody had heard of it before Nag Hammadi (total bullshit) and that it was repressed for having dangerous secret knowledge. In truth, it was repressed because it's Gnostic trash that doesn't even make historical sense.