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Gospel of Judas
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Contents
Criticism
With the rediscovered Gospel of Judas, critics claimed that Christianity (including Latter-Day Saints) has missed a part which contradicts church doctrine of agency.
Source(s) of the criticism
- Internet
Response
The source for this claim would be a text called Gospel of Judas which was discovered in El Minya, Egypt. The texts is dated from about the third or fourth century. Most scholars have link this text to the Gnostic movement and have concluded that this text was a late forgery.[1]
Conclusion
Endnotes
- [note] Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Eric D. Huntsman, and Thomas A. Wayment. Jesus Christ and the World of the New Testament: An Illustrated Reference for Latter-day Saints. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2006), 312
Further reading
FAIR wiki articles
FAIR web site
- FAIR Topical Guide:
- FairMormon Topical Guide: Agency vs. Predestination FairMormon link
Printed material
- Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Andrew C. Skinner, and Thomas A. Wayment, What Da Vinci
Didn’t Know: An LDS Perspective. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2006. ISBN 1590386086
- Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Eric D. Huntsman, and Thomas A. Wayment. Jesus Christ and the World of the New Testament: An Illustrated Reference for Latter-day Saints. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2006) ISBN 9781590384428
Audio Recordings
- Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, S. Kent Brown, Frank Judd, Gaye Strathearn, and Thomas A.
Wayment, “The Truth About the Gospel of Judas,” Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2006.