Not So Famous…

Last night at Bible Study, we moved onto a new section of the Westminster Confession of Faith. We have moved from the authority of the Word of God and into the contents of the Word of God. The Confession lists the 66 books of the Bible and declares that the writings known as the Apocrypha are not divinely inspired, and are not to be included in the canon of Scripture.

Now, I’m not going to argue that fact, and it doesn’t matter what you believe. The Westminster Confession of Faith states that quite clearly, and if you don’t believe me, you can pick up a copy for yourselves. lol

However, we took a little bit of a break in the study to listen to a radio program from NPR called the Talk of the Nation or something of that nature. In this program, the commentator interviewed two professors about the controversial work “The Gospel of Judas.” In it, these two academics waxed idiotic about how the Gospel of Judas is a “new perspective” on the life of Jesus. In it, they NEVER claimed that this “gospel”, which isn’t a gospel at all, was anything other than a perspective. When asked about this work’s historicity, they said that it didn’t really matter whether it portrayed an actual Judas who was the Judas Iscariot of the Bible. They claimed that what was important was the teachings. (Never mind the fact that if it’s a book filed with lies, the teachings are likewise worthless.)

Essentially my problem with this gospel of Judas junk is that they freely admit that it was written in about 150AD (extremely late when you consider the canonical writings), and they freely admit that the document’s historicity is irrelevant. All they care about is that it’s an old work of fiction that disputes the canonical writings. As long as it attempts to destroy the Word of God, they’re happy campers. Their big push was that this new work sheds new light on the Word of God. They don’t care whether it’s accurate, or who wrote it, or what purpose it was originally written for. None of that matters. All that matters is that it’s an opinion that disagrees with the Word of God. They’ve been saying “The Bible doesn’t matter” for many years now, and it’s not shaken the foundations of the Christian church yet, so now they’re turning to attacking the Word of God from these “ancient documents”.

Another interesting thing is that they like to claim that the mainstream church has been supressing this document and others like it since the middle of the second century. Excuse me? How exactly was the church in a position to suppress anything?? They were trying hard not to be completely eradicated! They weren’t in the position to suppress anything. They examined documents, and if the documents didn’t meet certain standards (apostolic authorship, early authorship, etc), they rejected them as not canonical.

Finally, another thing that annoys me is the shoddy research these people do, sometimes resorting to absolute fabrications to “prove” their point, when all they do is prove themselves to be completely inept! For example, the woman professor from Princeton (Pagel, I think) claimed that “some Christian leader” in the mid-2nd century just decided there is only room for 4 gospels…from here on out, there’s only going to be 4 gospels. She never claimed a name…she merely asserted it as fact.

In point of fact this never happened, and anyone claiming that this happened is likely a Gnostic heretic trying to sell you a baseless point of view. Do some homework, people.

And for those of you who feel that every opinion is valid unless someone proves that it’s not…that is completely RETARDED! There’s something called the burden of proof, people. If someone claims that something is true, they must prove it…especially when it contradicts established fact. I don’t have to prove that such an event never happened. They have to prove that it DID happen! That’s called the burden of proof. It lies on them.

Finally, I’ve decided that anyone can write a document, and the Gnostics will accept it as Gospel whether or not it has any established facts in it…whether or not it says anything that even makes sense. To that end, I’m going to write my own gospel. You’ve seen the name in the title of my post. I feel names are important, and my gospel name was chosen very deliberately to indicate what someone might find in my gospel and others like it.

To these people, every opinion is valid, no matter how outlandish. Every person’s statement has value in and of itself. This is called having your mind so open that your freakin’ brain falls out.