LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY bennu_)

Did anyone else catch the show on the National Geographic channel called the Gospel of Judas?

Basically, it goes like this: a gospel was found which is almost certainly a lost book of the Nag Hammadi books which told part of the Jesus/Judas story very differently, saying that Jesus asked Judas to "sacrifice" him because he was the only one who fully understood his teachings. It removes the stigma of betrayal from Judas.

One thing that really stood out to me, which was formerly kept in the circles of historians, was that the show pointed out that in the first 500 or so years of Christianity (at the least) there were many different forms of Christianity and the various Christians all followed different gospels. There were at least 30 different gospels, and only four made it into the Bible (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John), and this was intentional. The other gospels eventually were considered heretical, because they went against the version that certain church leaders wanted to promote.

The above historical facts basically prove that there is no one, right "Word of God" and there is no one, true Christianity. But, of course, historical fact, as usual, is blasphemy.

The show had more to it than what I've posted here, and I think it's worth seeing, regardless of one's faith.