More on the Gospel of Judas

Concordia Seminary held a convocation on April 10 titled
Gospel of Judas: Professors Respond

Click here to download an mp3 of the convocation

Here are a couple of quotes from the web post, click here to read the entire post:

Concordia Seminary professors James Voelz and Jeffrey Kloha provided a response to the gospel of Judas for members of the Seminary community in a convocation on Monday, April 10. Voelz and Kloha serve in the Seminary’s department of exegetical theology and specialize in New Testament studies.


“There is nothing of the historical Jesus, the Jesus that walked the earth, in this document,” commented Kloha. “It is important that we know about this document since people are watching and reading media reports about it and being influenced by them.”

The gospel of Judas was featured in a National Geographic Society television documentary the previous evening and is receiving a great deal of media attention. It is dramatically different from the four gospels that are contained within the New Testament and purports to provide a secret account of a revelation that Jesus spoke with the disciple Judas Iscariot.

“Jesus is never described as ‘the Christ’ in this manuscript,” commented Kloha. “Instead, an individual named Seth is referenced as the Christ.”

In describing the media’s portrayal of the document, Voelz stated, “They are conveniently omitting a lot of information that would put the manuscript in a bad light. It is important for people to know how odd this document is.”

The Gospel of Judas

There has been lot's of smoke regarding the Gospel of Judas but not much light or heat. Here is an excellent article on the topic. The Gospel of Judas Here is an excerpt:

The existence of the Gospel of Judas has been known for centuries, and thus is no “new” discovery (only the discovery of the Coptic manuscript is “new”). In writing against ancient heresies, the church father Irenaeus (130-200 A. D.) said that the Gospel of Judas originated in a Gnostic sect called the Cainites. He wrote: “They produce a fictitious history of this kind, which they label the Gospel of Judas.” Ancient gnostics, whose teachings were rejected by early Christians as heretical, generally taught that material creation is evil, entrapping what belongs to the divine or spiritual realm. Souls (spirit) are imprisoned in human bodies and are released (thus “saved”) and ascend to the spiritual realm through knowledge (gnosis)

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Read this article from Christian Answers for the New Age to help you see that this is something Christians should avoid.

"Martin Luther: A Biography"

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Sunday, November 06
KFUO Host: Rev Todd Wilken
"Martin Luther: A Biography" Dr. Paul Maier, Western Michigan University

I'm looking forward to downloading this mp3 and listening to it while I go on my daily walk.

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Here's my first Blog

Hi Christ Lutheran Folk (Stevensville, MI)

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