O.K.. (((( Smiles ))))

Here we go.. Retractions go unnoticed but the sensational sales..
I know even in my local newspaper when there is a mistake or retraction it's usually in a little off section of the paper easy to miss..
Most people probably do miss it as they just remember the headlines..
But I'm a big reader so I usually see it..

Of course I know about that..
I've read the Bibical Arch Review for years...
All retractions or mistranslations or scholary firey debate's you can find in there.. It's not for the faint of heart..
It's not a Christian magazine either..

Yes 2006.. I can go deeper into this matter because I'm sure that I read that Time did a retraction on that..
It was published in National Geographic in the Spring of 2006.. It caused a media frenzy in the spring of 2006..

The Gnostic text it claimed, painted a new portrait of Judas Iscariot , the disciple who betrayed Jesus.
According to this new interpretation, Jesus asked Judas to release him from his bodily shell, thus makeing Judas a hero.

But this view has been challenged by several prominent scholars who say that the National Geographics team not only mistranslated
parts of the coptic but also misunderstand the meaning of this Gnostic Text..
Was Judas a faithfull disciple or a demon?

There's been a recent substanially revised edition of The Gospel of Judas which was published in 2006..
It took long enough but you know thats how it goes..

According to the National Geographic's advanced promotional material, the new edition includes " new readings and new interpretations"
and a throughly updated translation of the Gosple of Judas..

The new edition recognizes the flawed scholarship of the orginal edition.. Mistakes have been acknowledge" including the sensational reading."

The BAR states that " the idea that this new gospel might be an accurate historical report of the reason for Judas's betrayal of Jesus is arrant nonsense..
as " Craig Evans " observes ect..
Although the Gospel of Judas has nothing to tell us about the historical Judas Iscariot , it has much to tell us about Gnostic christanity..

" I don't even call it christian " not my words ..
But you would have to read up on all this yourself whats been
written up on it..
The Gnostic Gospels were never accepted into the New Testament cannon as a part of the Bible for several reasons ..
One because of their late date ( second to fourth centuries), they could not have been written by eyewitness of Jesus,
or the Apostles or the direct disciples of the apostles..
( All 27 books of the New Testament were known to have been written in the first century)..

So thats a big waste of time for me to even go into that as I've read alot of this stuff all before and it's nothing new for me..

But was Judas a devil like scripture noted was the theme of this new articule I read..
I read the whole articule and findings on it recently..

Nothing new under the sun I just blow it off..
So many complaints I've read of before..
when the orginal texts are not released to the public but owned by certain scholars to interpret instead..
It's like I read recently the commentary on the Gabriels Revelation " in english..
Plus after that I read the contents of the translation myself..

The entire contents of the translation are Copyrighted ect..
So to get that you would have to buy the magazine for it..
And read it yourself..
And what was written.. I kind of read it differently cause I read what it actually said on the stone..
so it does matter when a person can read it first hand themselves..
Can actually see it what they see..

Went into this subject though enough all ready..
I believe it's meant to be entertaining thats what sells
theses days....
What sells theses day is...
Sometimes, not allways the exact truth but entertainment and sometimes misinterpertation or mistranslation..
to down right deception sometimes ..

It's a wide brush depends..
Sometimes you have to read between the lines..
People will believe what they want to believe anyway...
Regardless..

I hope that answered your question on the controversial matter..
Until the next controversal matter comes out..
It doesn't phase me..
and may take decades to correct but I believe I know how it ends anyway..
So now on to things that do really matter to me..

Lynn