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[Saiyan Juices]

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[Crystal8Phoenix]

This is old news. And it's very unlikely that the book of the Gospel of Barnabas is real

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/world-news/detail/articolo/bibbia-bible-biblia-13182/

http://www.apologia.50megs.com/Gospel%20of%20Barnabas.html

http://answering-islam.org/Green/barnabas.htm

[CuAnnan]

Cirquedu

Just do some research on the bible found in Turkey, or see a link below.
1500 Bible found In Turkey

[citation required]

Cirquedu

It was also said that after reading the bible, the pope resigned.

[citation required]

Cirquedu

Whats going on?

There are groups within most religions that lie about other religions so people won't join them.

[citation required]Is it true?
No.

[citation required]How will it affect religion and society?
1) Christianity != religion. Abrahamic religions != religion.
2) It won't affect society.

[Saiyan Juices]

Crystal8Phoenix

This is old news. And it's very unlikely that the book of the Gospel of Barnabas is real

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/world-news/detail/articolo/bibbia-bible-biblia-13182/

http://www.apologia.50megs.com/Gospel of Barnabas.html

http://answering-islam.org/Green/barnabas.htm

Well this is the first time I've seen it. Either way, I'm no Christian. The text raised some questions.

[Crystal8Phoenix]

Cirquedu

Crystal8Phoenix

This is old news. And it's very unlikely that the book of the Gospel of Barnabas is real

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/world-news/detail/articolo/bibbia-bible-biblia-13182/

http://www.apologia.50megs.com/Gospel of Barnabas.html

http://answering-islam.org/Green/barnabas.htm

Well this is the first time I've seen it. Either way, I'm no Christian. The text raised some questions.

A couple of my friends posted it on facebook, and I actually wanted to believe it (despite the fear of all the trouble it will cause regarding one of the most powerful beliefs...like ever), but at most it was an attempt to shake the structures of the old faith - not support it. It contradicts the Bible highly and seems to favor Islam, but it also seems to have contradictions according to their faith as well.
I find it most likely the pope resigned for the reason said, he was failing in health. I mean, all popes are old, so it's not like we're picking the most physically capable people for the job. There are people who have taken this book as a teaching but to me it seems an...uneducated choice. Even if one views religion itself as an uneducated choice, this would be "downright foolishness" in comparison.

However, that's just my opinion based on what information I've been able to cram in my brain so far. It was nice to have a topic here that wasn't the same old song and dance

[Sandokiri]

Cirquedu

Just do some research on the bible found in Turkey, or see a link below.
1500 Bible found In Turkey
It was also said that after reading the bible, the pope resigned. Whats going on? Is it true? How will it affect religion and society?

The article itself takes the position of seriously doubting that the thing is of any significance. I suspect that it was a Muslim-turned-Cypriot (or vice versa) writing a fanfic.

[Brothern]

Cirquedu

It was also said that after reading the bible, the pope resigned. Whats going on? Is it true? How will it affect religion and society?

Pfffffffffft. Unbeknownst to most people today, early Christianity was a VASTLY diverse group of religions. Early Christians cobbled together all sorts of variations on the Bible, including what could amount to libraries of apocryphal (non-Biblical) literature. That's in addition to the astounding variations on beliefs such as salvation, redemption, the afterlife, ritual practices, church organization, good/evil, eschatology, recognition of holy figures, views on Judaism; and even extending to the worship and beliefs in the divinity of various Messiahs such as Jesus Christ (obviously), to godly figures such as John the Baptist, Marcion of Sinop, Dositheos the Samaritan and Simon Magus to name a few.

There were so many factions of damn early Christians running around that we can only guess at their numbers. If you even dig deep enough into the theologies of the New Testament, it's not a big revelation that the various authors of the NT books have strongly diverging religious beliefs too.

Anyhow, much of that material and history has been purged by later Christians. The diversity of the Christian religion has always been contentious and the winning, more popular factions throughout history have always sought to declare their doctrines as the only acceptable way of thinking. The rest gets plowed over. So assuming that this1500 CE Turkish Bible isn't a fake, it's just one more book to be added to the library of former early Christian scriptures. All of which are completely ignored by modern Christianity. (... and if that needs to be spelled out, this literature is ignored, because it shows that Christianity is nothing special in the realm of human religions.)

[Islamic Teacher]

http://barnabas.net/

[calgarian]

psh, It could probably be true.

[stealthmongoose]

Brothern

Cirquedu

It was also said that after reading the bible, the pope resigned. Whats going on? Is it true? How will it affect religion and society?

Pfffffffffft. Unbeknownst to most people today, early Christianity was a VASTLY diverse group of religions. Early Christians cobbled together all sorts of variations on the Bible, including what could amount to libraries of apocryphal (non-Biblical) literature. That's in addition to the astounding variations on beliefs such as salvation, redemption, the afterlife, ritual practices, church organization, good/evil, eschatology, recognition of holy figures, views on Judaism; and even extending to the worship and beliefs in the divinity of various Messiahs such as Jesus Christ (obviously), to godly figures such as John the Baptist, Marcion of Sinop, Dositheos the Samaritan and Simon Magus to name a few.

There were so many factions of damn early Christians running around that we can only guess at their numbers. If you even dig deep enough into the theologies of the New Testament, it's not a big revelation that the various authors of the NT books have strongly diverging religious beliefs too.

Anyhow, much of that material and history has been purged by later Christians. The diversity of the Christian religion has always been contentious and the winning, more popular factions throughout history have always sought to declare their doctrines as the only acceptable way of thinking. The rest gets plowed over. So assuming that this1500 CE Turkish Bible isn't a fake, it's just one more book to be added to the library of former early Christian scriptures. All of which are completely ignored by modern Christianity. (... and if that needs to be spelled out, this literature is ignored, because it shows that Christianity is nothing special in the realm of human religions.)

This is the qualia of my mind.

[Avgvsto]

Do you not know how BC and AD work?

[VeganIncubus]

No.
He's Raptor Jesus.