Sunday, May 07, 2017

gospel of barnabas

  I was reading news articles and the comments different people make when I came across an unusual person so I clicked on their profile to learn a little more about them.  I noticed that they had posted
an idea that the gospel of Barnabas was proof that Jesus Christ was not the son of God and did not raise from the dead. 
  Barnabas was a disciple of Jesus and became Paul's partner for a year or so.  Paul was a young Pharisee at the time of the crucifixion and held the coats of the men who stoned Stephen. 
   The gospel of Barnabas is supposedly written by this discipline and the gospel claims that Paul was delusional, teaching falsehood about Christ. 
The writer of the gospel of Barnabas claims that Jesus was a prophet but never clamed to be the son of God.   Jesus never rose from the dead because he was never crucified.  It was Judas Iscariot that was arrested in his place.  According to the gospel of Barnabas the lineage of Jesus was Adam Abraham Ismael, Moses,  and then David.  If that were true then Jesus would have been just an ordinary man.
   Those who cite the gospel of Barnabas as proof that Jesus was not God apparently don't know history very well.  Judas was at the temple while Jesus was being tried and is recorded as having attempted to give the 30 pieces of silver back.  he is the credited author of the gospel of Judas which records in great detail the trial of Jesus.  He cannot be both the observer and the observed. 
  The lineage of Jesus, as with all Jews, is traced from Abraham, never from Adam,  Adam is the father of all men, Abraham is the father of the Jews.  Jews trace their lineage through Isaac, not Ismael. 
   Jesus di claim to be the son of God and says that He and the Father are one and the same. 
  But the biggest error in the gospel of bananas is a reference to Mohammed who was not even born until many years after the death of Paul and Barnabas.    
   Just because a manuscript is old does not mean it is truthful. 
FYI;  Mohammed was born in the Arab trading and pilgrimage city of Mecca, in the Arabian peninsula, between 570 and 580 AD.

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