JUDAS ISCARIOT Not the Betrayer and Didn't Hang Himself

I wish the Associated Press (AP) and the New York
Times would get their facts straight about Judas
Iscariot.

This is what the AP published:

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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON -- Perhaps
it wasn't history's greatest
betrayal after all, but a simple
act of obedience.

Judas turned Jesus over to
the high priests, not for money,
but because Jesus asked
him to do so, according to
newly translated ancient
Coptic documents.

The "Gospel of Judas" tells
a far different tale from the four
gospels in the New Testament.
It portrays Judas as a favored
disciple who was given special
knowledge by Jesus -- and
turned him in at Jesus' request.

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This is what the New York Times published:

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By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
and LAURIE GOODSTEIN
The New York Times

An early Christian manuscript,
including the only known text of
he Gospel of Judas, has surfaced
after 1,700 years, and it portrays
Judas Iscariot not as a betrayer
of Jesus but as his favored disciple
and willing collaborator.

In this text, scholars reported
yesterday, the account of events
leading to the Crucifixion differs
sharply from the four gospels
in the New Testament.

Here Jesus is said to entrust
Judas with special knowledge
and ask him to betray him to the
Roman authorities. By doing so,
he tells Judas, "you will exceed"
the other disciples.

"You will be cursed by the other
generations, and you will come
to rule over them," Jesus confides
to Judas in the document, which was
made public at a news conference
at the National Geographic Society
in Washington.

Though some theologians have
hypothesized the "good Judas"
before, scholars who have translated
and studied the text said this was
the first time an ancient document
lent specific support to a revised
image of the man whose name
in history has been synonymous
with treachery.

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To set the record straight, Judas Iscariot did NOT betray
Jmmanuel (Jesus Christ's real name) and didn't hang
himself later.

You see, the betrayer was actually a man named Judas
Ishariot -- close but no cigar -- and it was he who kissed
Jmmanuel under darkened skies in the Garden, thus
tipping off the Roman guards that they had their man.

Word of Judas' betrayal created confusion among the
public who assumed Judas Ihariot was Judas Iscariot.

Judas Iscariot, in fact, was one of Jmmanuel's most
beloved apostles and, after the imaginary Ressurection
(he didn't die on the cross), eventually accompanied
Jmmanuel in his travels to many parts of Asia, including
his last stop in India where he died in his 90s.

Someday the AP and The New York Times will
have to print retractions. And it may be sooner
than later.

Ed Conrad
http://www.edconrad.com

Man as Old as Coal
and
Proof of Life After Death

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