Iran’s Basij Press is claiming that a version of the Gospel of Barnabas, found in 2000, will prove that Islam is the final and righteous religion and the revelation will cause the collapse worldwide of Christianity...This version of the Barnabas Gospel was written in the 5th or 6th century and it predicted the coming of the Prophet Mohammad and the religion of Islam, the Basij Press claims.Surely they would not make anything this important up out of whole cloth...
The funny thing here is not that Muslims made up a 'gospel' that points to their prophet. Hell, even the Mormons are competent enough to do that. The funny thing that that they apparently believe that Christians have heard of Barnabas. If the Gospel of Thomas kerfuffle was here and gone in a fortnight, and if Jesus' own tomb, complete with a $6m budget, barely lasted a month, why should an obviously fraudulent document named for a guy 90% of Christians couldn't pick out of a police lineup (even if the only other guy in it was Tim Tebow) make any dent at all? At least be clever enough to name it after Peter or Andrew. Besides, it's not Easter season. Everybody knows that Christianity needs to be debunked at Christmas and at Easter. The rest of the year, relatively few pay it any mind at all.
Now obviously it's just propaganda, not for Christians but for Muslims who are being exposed to the claims of Christ, possibly for the first time, a wholly-predictable result of the technology the Imams cannot suppress. But I do wonder if they really think it will be effective or if their game is so weak that this is really the best they can do to keep the Creator of the World in check. If it's the latter, Islam may die in the Middle East faster than Christianity died in the West. Even without the Gospel of Barnabas.
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"Free Barnabas" !!!!
Right. And the conviction of Joe Smith for Fraud will be the end of Mormonism. At most, all we get is another cult out of this.
one of my amusements in Iraq was talking to my moslim interpreters about Christianity. They had all heard of it. But their oral traditions had some really wacky things to say about it.
Example: Jesus first miracle was when he was still a newborn babe. Mary was a single mother, there was no Joseph. True to custom, the villagers gathered to stone Mary for adultery, but Jesus spoke in her defense.
Barnabas...Barnabas...wait...
He's the guy that Johnny Depp plays in the new vampire movie, right?
Even the Christians who have heard of Barnabas know that he didn't get along with Paul. Seriously dude, we're not going to take his side over the guy who wrote half the New Testament.
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