I’ve blogged a bit on the recent buzz on the “discovery” of the Gospel of Judas which reports Christ to be something other than what Holy Mother Church confesses.
Here’s an interesting commentary from an orthodox priest concerning these gospels and Gnosticism. Consider this:
In the Gnostic system, the saving death and resurrection of Christ play no role and they are usually entirely omitted. The one killed is not the Son of God, but only the human Jesus, whose body presumably decayed to dust. What is decisive for the Gnostic view is not the person of Jesus the Christ, crucified and risen, but the Gnostic gospel itself, that is, the message of the secret Gnostic system. This system was thought to provide the key to a kind of self-salvation through self-knowledge and self-realization in the discovery of the inner divine self.
It’s a very old heresy, but as you know, there are only so many heresies that can be recycled.
