In Reply to: 'The Gospel of Judas' documentary posted by Observer on April 10, 2006 at 13:28:26:
My big question about the ‘Gospel of Judas’ is this:
National Geographic’s documentary on the ‘Gospel of Judas’ said that Judas’ mission was to betray Jesus & states that Jesus ‘asked him to do it against his will.’ In the dramatized re-entactments they did, Jesus tells poor Judas that everyone will hate Judas for what he must do (betray Jesus to his enemies) but that Judas must do it because Jesus had to die to free himself from the prison of his body.
In the ‘Gospel of Judas’ Judas was privy to the greatest secrets of all of the kingdom of heaven & Judas is the one apostle who truly understands Jesus’ mission. None of the other eleven ‘got it’. So why would Jesus put Judas in such a horrible position, to betray Jesus against his will so that poor Jesus ended up committing suicide? Why wouldn’t he leave him behind in a position to lead the church? After all, Jesus could simply have gone to the high priests himself & turned himself in.