Danny ChaiI don’t get the hype with the Gospel of Judas either. It’s just another example of the syndrome of which The DaVinci Code is also guilty – people want any excuse to say that Christianity as we know it is wrong, and aren’t willing to apply the same standards of veracity to these alternative sources that they do for established Scripture. It’s really annoying.
There was a quote in Newsweek by the guy who wrote the book on the discovered Gospel of Judas, and he says it well – this manuscript says nothing about the historical Jesus, and it says nothing about the historical Judas. All it tells us is what some offshoot group believed hundreds of years after the events depicted.
Furthermore, I dunno why Dan Brown and other people give ancient Gnostics so much respect. As I understand it, they were this weirdo group that believed that they alone had access to secret knowledge. Perhaps this is overstating it, but in my mind, they were the conspiracy theorists of their day. Like the Area 51 or Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorists of today, who think they alone know the real truth. For some reason, we see modern day conspiracy theorists as being cuckoo or at least a little weird. But ancient ones, people give respect. I dunno, I don’t get it.