“The Gospel Of Philip”, “The Gospel Of Mary Magdalene” and now “The Gospel Of Judas”
Looks like the devil is working overtime to confuse Babes In Christ and Nominal Christians and also trying some mudslinging on Christianity , by some who know little about the Gospels, leave alone the Bible.
The Gospel means Good News, but the recent so called unearthing and publishing of untrue matter is bad news for us Christians.
First, the Da Vinci Code was served, trying to pollute the Word Of God by making ludicrous claims, that Jesus married Mary Magdalene according to the Gospel of Philip.
The book promotes these ideas:
•Jesus is not God; he was only a man.
•Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene.
•She is to be worshiped as a goddess.
•Jesus got her pregnant, and the two had a daughter.
•That daughter gave rise to a prominent family line that is still present in Europe today.
•The Bible was put together by a pagan Roman emperor.
•Jesus was viewed as a man and not as God until the fourth century, when he was deified by the emperor Constantine.
•The Gospels have been edited to support the claims of later Christians.
•In the original Gospels, Mary Magdalene was directed to establish the Church.
•There is a secret society known as the Priory of Sion that still worships Mary Magdalene as a goddess and is trying to keep the truth alive.
“The Gospel of Philip” cited as proof that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married was produced at the end of the 3rd century AD, almost two hundred years after the Gospel of John, the last of the four New Testament gospels to be written. It is hardly part of “the earliest Christian records” that the book professes to assert. The Gospel of Philip was written most probably by Valentinus, an Egyptian gnostic teacher who taught in Rome. (Gnosticism is an term that scholars use to describe a number of religious movements in the ancient Roman world, many of which were not at all related to Christianity, all of which had several common themes: that members of the various gnostic sects had a secret knowledge not available to others)
The Gospel of Philip and The Gospel of Mary Magdalene are commonly called “gnostic” gospels by New Testament scholars and historians now. They are pseudonymous works very unreliable as historical documents and in fact contain no historical outline of events in the life of Christ whatsoever, in contrast to the canonical New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John that clearly speak in historical terms of the birth, baptism, ministry, crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.
If this wasn’t enough, now we have articles published in newspapers all over the world about “The Gospel Of Judas” which claims that it was Jesus himself who asked Judas to betray him to get a higher status than the other disciples.
I believe that there will be many more gospels coming out soon because the devil knows that his time is short.
But Christians must remember what Paul, the apostle wrote to the Corinthians and the Galatians:
“I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.” (2 Corinthians 11:2-4)
“I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-- which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned! Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ. (Galatians 1:6-10)
Praise the Lord for those who are servants of Christ and may the Lord have mercy on those who are polluting gullible minds with a different Gospel that they may come to the knowledge of the truth.
Be on your watch Christian, for “Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.” (1 Peter 5:8, 9)
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