MR> I know this following text is from an Orthodox Priest, but
 MR> it remeinds everyone to be careful.

 I do not know much about his historical information, but I do
 believe his evaluation of the Gospel of Judas is in line with
 the Roman Catholic position.

 In general, I get a feeling reminiscent of the 1978 miniseries,
 "The Word". starring David Janssen. It don't seem very credible.

 MR> ------------------------------------------------------------
 MR> ---------- This Pascha, the media keeping up with its
 MR> annual policy, has found something else with which it can
 MR> attack the faith of Christians.  The National Geographic
 MR> Society is headlining its May edition with a
 MR> sensationalized report on what it claims challenges one of
 MR> the most firmly rooted beliefs in Christian tradition.  For
 MR> the next few weeks, newspapers, magazines, television and
 MR> radio will be proclaiming this newly discovered Gnostic
 MR> text called The Gospel of Judas. This manuscript of The
 MR> Gospel of Judas is a fourth or fifth cnetuary copy of an
 MR> earlier document produced by a Gnostic sect called the
 MR> Cainites. Gnosticism is a collective name applying to
 MR> various pantheistic sects, which flourished from before the
 MR> coming of our Saviour.  These pagan sects borrowed the

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