talaga lang

i watched the gospel of judas last night on national geo.

as usual, the docu treatment was okay but i don't see the point.

if judas really wrote that gospel and if it was really genuine [like they claimed], i don't see why it should be included in the Bible. its description of Jesus was uncharacteristic and a complete mockery of how scriptures described God. if there's anything fascinating about the Bible it is its coherence in thought and content. imagine so many writers with different styles, different contexts and different perceptions, separated by language, 4000+ years and vast lands write about something similar. that can never be conspiracy; there was no yahoo messenger back then.

the gospel of judas also says nothing about the crucifixion and ressurection so anti-church people say that these events are a hoax. but how can judas write about it when he committed suicide right after betraying Jesus? [just a thought] and there are also a load of information "hidden" and "screened" by the church.

another point in the documentary claims that early church fathers did not include this gospel because they were trying to "hide" the fact that there had been other groups of "christians" practicing "christianity." so naturally, they wanted to keep "christianity" all to themselves. if this had been the case and there were indeed other forms of "christianity" that died away, then that says a lot about the kind of "christian sect" they had. it didn't last so there must be something wrong with it. and it's not an excuse to say that it was the church fathers' fault that they were suppressed. many world religions have been suppressed in the past and i still can see them now. so yeah. something's really wrong with the picture.

because of all these "gnostic gospels" people might think that the Bible we have now is far from authentic. but if we can't trust God enough to preserve scripture over all these years, what can we trust Him with? isn't the Bible His revealed word? i think we have all we need to know. we just want to know more.

humans are naturally curious. and sin aggravates the matter. but, well, yeah, we are entitled to ask. so what do we do about it now?