10-25-2004, 02:35 PM
If I can help even 1 person learn ANYTHING, then perhaps someone will finally come to recognize this silly "gospel of barnabas" for the forgery and fake that it is.
I am posting a link to a non-Muslim, non-Christian site that shows just SOME of the reasons for rejecting this document as a forgery. It is an online encyclopedia of information about this forgery: Brainy Encyclopedia
To quote some passages of the site:
Quote:The Gospel of Barnabas makes naive errors in geography, has Barnabas sailing to land-locked Nazareth, had Jesus born during the rule of Pontius Pilatus, which didn't begin before the year 26, does not realize that 'Christ' means 'anointed.'
'Jesus confessed and said the truth, "I am not the Messiah"' (''Barnabas, ch. 42)
'Then said the priest: "How shall the Messiah be called?" {Jesus answered} "Muhammed is his blessed name" ' (ch. 97).
- The book even contradicts your Quran, so why would you believe in it?
- This person does note even understand the meaning of the word "Christ" OR "Messiah", so why would you believe in it?
- This person doesn't know basic geography of the very land he supposedly grew up in, so why would you believe it?