Judas cast in new light

April 7, 2006 D. H. McKee

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One of the greatest villains in history was in truth a hero for the ages, according to an ancient gospel unveiled yesterday in Washington.
Judas Iscariot, a man whose name became synonymous with betrayal for selling information about Jesus to the Romans for 30 pieces of silver â.. an act that led to the arrest and crucifixion of the man Christians regard as the son of God â.. was acting on orders from Jesus himself.
“He’s the good guy. He’s the only apostle who understands Jesus,” said Bart Ehrman, chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an expert in the New Testament. “In this gospel it turns out that Judas does turn Jesus over to the authorities, but according to this gospel, this is what Jesus wanted.”
In fact, Jesus entrusted Judas with a secret he did not reveal to any of his other disciples: That this world was not created by the one true God, but by a lesser, evil divinity as a place to entrap divine spirits.
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