1500-Year-Old Bible Discovered In Turkey Indicates Jesus Christ Was Not Crucified

Latin Times ^ | 05/08/2014 | By Donovan Longo

[SeekAndFind]

A 1500-year-old bible has been discovered in Turkey. Discovered in 2000, the book that contains purportedly the Gospel of Barnabas has been transferred by the Turkish government to the Ethnography Museum of Ankara with a police escort. Barnabas was a disciple of Christ, and in the work, claims that Jesus was not crucified, instead it says he ascended to heaven alive and Judas Iscariot was crucified in his place. Furthermore, the 1500-year-old bible states that Jesus Christ was not the son of God, but simply a prophet who passed on the word of God.

According to a report for The National Turk, the bible and alleged Gospel of Barnabas was seized from smugglers in the Mediterranean area in 2000 and held in a Turkish courthouse until safe transfer to the museum could be arranged. Authorities charged the thieves with “smuggling antiquities, illegal excavations and the possession of explosives,” they since been sent to trial, Turkish police testified in regards to the incredible age of the bible, claiming it could be as old as "2000 years."

The Vatican has made an official request to be granted access to the 1500-year-old bible, however the bible that is said to be worth $28 million is currently held by the Turkish government securely. The holy words are hand written in Syriac in luminous gold lettering on loosely bound together animal hides. Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic – the reported native language of Jesus Christ. Aramaic itself is a nearly dead language, rarely present in today's modern society. Aramaic is only spoken in a small village near Damascus.

According to the Christian Post, merely photocopies of the holy book’s pages are being sold for a staggering $1.7 million. In addition to the age and impeccable construction of the bible, the contents of the holy book is what makes it so valuable. The Gospel of Barnabas is not included in the New Testament alongside Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

This work opposes the ideas proposed in the widely spread New Testament, and instead has noticeable similarities to the Muslim interpretation of Jesus. The Gospel of Barnabas even contains a story in which Jesus predicts the coming of Prophet Muhammad. Due to this fact, many followers of Islam believe the original gospel work was repressed by the Vatican Library.

[FreeAtlanta]

It probably reads as drug addled and immature as the Koran.

[Secret Agent Man]

oh my now i’ll have to change my fundamental beliefs b/c a heretic bible with non-canon books “found” in a muslim country jives with the muslim beliefs about Jesus.

oh yeah for the hard of humor, /sarc

[ZULU]

Turkey gives the lie to the myth that muslims can have a democracy.

NOT POSSSIBLE

[aces]

well said..

[tophat9000]

That Jesus was not crucified, but some one else in his place, is a tenet of Islam..considering the time frame it might be an Islamic creation for a Christian disinformation campaign

[Psalm 73]

"...the 1500-year-old bible states that Jesus Christ was not the son of God..."

From the father of lies.

[Claud]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Barnabas

“The name of “Muhammad” is frequently mentioned verbatim in the Gospel of Barnabas”

MMmmmmmmok.

[Biggirl]

Anything canonical would be either in a guarded vault or in a special room in places like that monestery in the Siani Desert.

[IronJack]

So an artifact “newly discovered” by ragheads purports to attack the very foundation of Christianity, and the Bull Durham meters of our media watchdogs don’t peg?

I guess skepticism is reserved for pro-Christian material, eh?

Maybe Barnabas is the guy who wrote the tale of Jesus’ wife too.

[Cementjungle]

I should write a book about Christopher Columbus and what he was like.

Yea, I'll vouch for you... I was personal friends with Columbus, and I recall that you were invited to all of his parties.

[Responsibility2nd]

You posted that in a Religion forum?

Heavens to Betsey. The RM may just faint.

[Biggirl]

....Yet the miracle is that there are some, not many small Christian communities left which is in itself a miracle considering that Turkey is starting to go hardline Muslim again.

[chesley]

1500-years old, huh?

Yep, practically new when Jesus was resurrected.

Cripes!

[Biggirl]

Not surprising.

[El Cid]

Sheesh. There were probably close to a hundred 'Pseudepigraphas' published. The 'Gospel of Barnabas', 'Gospel of Peter', of Mary, of Thomas, etc...
What is the big surprise? Satan hates the Word of God. Christ defeated him at Calvary, and so Satan went after the written Word.
Paul's letters and John's first Epistle warn of this nonsense.

So someone found a really old copy of the 'Gospel of Barnabas' ... big whoop. Apparently there were Satanic frauds also floating around in the First Century (which is why Paul and John warned against them). Only those with itching ears, or with an axe to grind against the true Bible, paid them any attention.

[MrB]

Easy to tell if any of these “discovered gospels” are false -

if they contradict anything in the canon.

[nikos1121]

so let me get this straight. 500 years... years AFTER the death of Christ or Barnabus for that matter, we have the gospel according to Barnabus which conveniently serves none other than the teachings of Islam.

Funny how Barnabus’s account was never conveyed to Paul, who was mentored by Barnabus. I don’t recall one line from Paul’s writing saying that Jesus was never crucified etc.

Another thing, the new testament is based on writings that are older than 1500 years.

Another typical BS Muslum thingy.

[MrB]

I see lots of minced oaths in here...

“Jeez”, “Cripes”, “Sheesh”

[tophat9000]

Funny I just read the story first line to the conclusion probably Islamic disinformation. .in the last part of the article it states it predicts Mohammad...clearly is its Islamic disinformation..you think the story would start with that

[GeronL]

Bump