[HEY4QDEMS]

As a Christian, I must say it is a complete embarrassment the way that Christians are threatened by a fictional book.

Dan Brown is forced to build a fortified fence around his Rye NH home because of hostilities and threats from fruitcakes over his book.

It's also embarrassing that most don't know the word Gospel has nothing to do with religion, it means "word" and nothing else.

My suggestion is to be secure in your faith and instead of making a ass of yourselves attacking writers of fiction and old documents that even NG acknowledged are without provenance.

[Disambiguator]

It's also embarrassing that most don't know the word Gospel has nothing to do with religion, it means "word" and nothing else.

"Gospel" means "good news".

The word "logos" (Greek) means "word".

[Belteshazzar]

"It's also embarrassing that most don't know the word Gospel has nothing to do with religion, it means "word" and nothing else."

... uh, no, it does not mean "'word' and nothing else." The word "Gospel," Greek, "euangelion," (spelled phonetically) means "good news" or "good message." It has a clearly more hopeful and optimistic denotation than merely "word" and a distinctively Christian connotation. Word in Greek is "logos." Which, although denotatively merely means "word," does in given contexts mean far more, e.g. John 1:1. And context, far more than mere dictionary definition, determines what a word really means.

So criticize both the "Gospel of Judas," which is just another piece of Gnostic junk, and, if appropriate, the over-reaction of some Christians to it. But don't assert what is clearly not true.

[Ro_Thunder]

Actually, doesn't gospel mean "Good word", or "good news", rather than just "word"?