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1500-Year-Old Bible Discovered In Turkey Indicates Jesus Christ Was Not Crucified
Latin Times ^ | 05/08/2014 | By Donovan Longo

Posted on 05/08/2014 11:33:20 AM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: History; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: barnabas; crucifixion; deathtoislam; deceiver; denialaintariver; epigraphyandlanguage; forgery; godsgravesglyphs; gospel; gospelofbarnabas; islamicstate; jamescameron; letshavejerusalem; nationofislam; simchajacobovici; talpiot; turkey
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To: varmintman

You forgot Secular Humanism...


41 posted on 05/08/2014 11:53:35 AM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Seems like a writing of a mad mo follower.


42 posted on 05/08/2014 11:53:42 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: SeekAndFind

1500 years ago is about when Mo-Ham-Head was polluting the earth. This crap is what all the Muzzies believe.


43 posted on 05/08/2014 11:54:02 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: FreeAtlanta

“.....instead it says he ascended to heaven alive ...?

As if this in itself would not be unusual.


44 posted on 05/08/2014 11:54:07 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, I’m glad that is finally settled. ;-)


45 posted on 05/08/2014 11:54:32 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t they know they are supposed to do this a week or two before Easter. Sheesh. Can’t count on anybody to do things right anymore.


46 posted on 05/08/2014 11:56:10 AM PDT by all the best (sat`~!)
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To: SeekAndFind
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

It took 14 years to arrange a "safe transfer"?

47 posted on 05/08/2014 11:57:32 AM PDT by Mannaggia l'America
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To: SeekAndFind

More muslim propaganda from the once “secular” Turkey.

The spirit of the AntiChrist reigns supreme there apparently.


48 posted on 05/08/2014 11:58:33 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Bible Summary in a few verses: John 14:6, John 6:29, Romans 10:9-10)
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To: all the best
Don’t they know they are supposed to do this a week or two before Easter. Sheesh. Can’t count on anybody to do things right anymore.

It must have went into someone's spam folder and they just recently saw it...

49 posted on 05/08/2014 11:58:38 AM PDT by Mannaggia l'America
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To: SeekAndFind

Lemme guess....Copyright DCXXI by Larricus Flynticus. All Rights Reserveth.


50 posted on 05/08/2014 12:01:38 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

“In March 2012 Dr Assad Sauma, an expert in medieval Syriac texts, reported that the manuscript deposited in the Ethonography Museum could be identified with one for which he had formerly undertaken a partial analysis. He stated that the portions of text that he had examined had consisted of random gospel verses and quotations; and also that he had been unable to find any correspondence between them and the text of the Gospel of Barnabas.”

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


51 posted on 05/08/2014 12:02:08 PM PDT by Claud
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To: SeekAndFind

There they go again.


52 posted on 05/08/2014 12:04:23 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: 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.
The Apostle Thomas, writing on Sunday, April 12th, 0033:
"Not much exciting happened today."
-- from the thread CBS News Claims Documents Disprove Christ's Resurrection

53 posted on 05/08/2014 12:06:18 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: SeekAndFind

If this book is written in Syriac I bet it is a copy of the Diatessaron a harmony of the Gospels written in the mid second century by Tatian. The Diatessaron was written in Syriac. This is significant because the spurrious gnostic “Gospel of Thomas” clearly used the Diatessaron as source material.


54 posted on 05/08/2014 12:06:23 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: SeekAndFind

News editors are such easy saps to roll as long as you approach from the left.


55 posted on 05/08/2014 12:08:18 PM PDT by cookcounty (IRS = Internal Revenge Service.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Some readers have noted that the Gospel of Barnabas contains a number of apparent anachronisms and historical incongruities:[53] (From Wiki)

-It has Jesus sailing across the Sea of Galilee to Nazareth – which is actually inland; and from thence going “up” to Capernaum – which is actually on the lakeside (chapters 20–21); though this is contested by Blackhirst, who says that the traditional location of Nazareth is itself questionable.

-Jesus is said to have been born during the rule of Pontius Pilate, which began after the year 26.

-Barnabas appears not to realize that “Christ” and “Messiah” are synonyms, “Christ” (khristos) being a Greek translation of the word messiah (mashiach), both having the meaning of “anointed”. The Gospel of Barnabas thus errs in describing Jesus as “Jesus Christ” (lit. “Messiah Jesus” in Greek), yet claiming that ‘Jesus confessed and said the truth, “I am not the Messiah”’ (ch. 42).

-There is reference to a jubilee which is to be held every hundred years (Chapter 82), rather than every fifty years as described in Leviticus: 25. This anachronism appears to link the Gospel of Barnabas to the declaration of a Holy Year in 1300 by Pope Boniface VIII; a Jubilee which he then decreed should be repeated every hundred years. In 1343 the interval between Holy Years was reduced by Pope Clement VI to fifty years.[16]

-Adam and Eve eat an apple (ch. 40); whereas the traditional association of the Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Book of Genesis 2:9,17; 3:5) with the apple rests on the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Latin, where both ‘apple’ and ‘evil’ are rendered as ‘malum’.

-The Gospel talks of wine being stored in wooden casks (chapter 152). Wooden casks were a characteristic of Gaul and Northern Italy, and were not commonly used for wine in the Roman empire until after 300 CE; whereas wine in 1st century Palestine was always stored in wineskins and jars (amphorae). The Pedunculate or English Oak Quercus robur does not grow in Palestine; and the wood of other species is not sufficiently airtight to be used in wine casks,[54]

...there is more. In short, a heretical Bible probably modified by some Muslim to cause confusion.


56 posted on 05/08/2014 12:10:02 PM PDT by Corporate Democrat
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To: SeekAndFind

even contains a story in which Jesus predicts the coming of Prophet Muhammad

aye aye aye MO EH???

PLEASE!!


57 posted on 05/08/2014 12:11:14 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: nikos1121

It is what Muslims have repeated to me for years. It is their story, and they are sticking to it.


58 posted on 05/08/2014 12:17:05 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: bkopto

Have any canonical books 1500 years old ever been found?


59 posted on 05/08/2014 12:17:35 PM PDT by redhawk.44mag
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To: apoxonu

No kidding.


60 posted on 05/08/2014 12:18:22 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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