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.

[hinckley buzzard]

It might be a hoax, or it may be an actual relic of the early gnostic heresies. They seemed to enjoy coming up with these alternative explanations. This type of speculation abounded in the patristic days, but they were ruled out of the canon soon enough. For this reason it is false and misleading for the writer to call it a "Bible."

[pgkdan]

Any book that contains the ‘gospel of Barnabas’ is NOT a bible!

[mj1234]

bing0-!

You win

[R7 Rocket]

Abortions reduce the number of Obamatron voters from what that number would have been.

[Clump]

Yea. A bunch of not so brave disciples were willing the be martyred in brutal fashion for holding to their story that Christ was crucified and raised from the dead.
And they did this knowing the whole thing was false. /extreme sarcasm

[Gamecock]

Why are we impressed with something written 500 years after the fact?

[bkopto]

Codex Sinaiticus – written ca. 330-360
Codex Vaticanus – ca. 325-350
Codex Alexandrinus – ca. 400-440
Codex Ephraemi – ca. 450
Textus Receptus - 1516

These are the Greek NT codices used in nearly all modern translations, as far as I understand it. It would be nice to find other, earlier greek manuscripts.

[I want the USA back]

“Indicates Jesus Christ Was Not Crucified”

change that to:

“SAYS Christ Was Not Crucified”

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Muslim scholar claims Gospel of Barnabas medieval forgery.

[RansomOttawa]

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.

Then we know it's nowhere near 1,500 years old. The so-called Gospel of Barnabas can't be traced back earlier than about the 15th century. It's not ancient, it's medieval.

Not that a single copy of the "Bible" of dubious provenance is sufficent to overturn the entire Christian tradition anyway. Anyone opting for scholarship over sensationalism already realizes this.

[chesley]

all I said was “cripes’.

[lastchance]

So, who is this “Latin Times” when he is at home?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This clearly sounds like a Muslim forgery.

1) That Jesus ascends bodily to heaven is like how Mohammed was supposed to have ridden to heaven on his horse.

2) It also supports the Muslim belief that Jesus was just a man, not the son of God.

[Georgia Girl 2]

The Bible found in 2000 but just now is suddenly big news. I’m smirking.

[SgtHooper]

“...photocopies of the holy book’s pages are being sold for a staggering $1.7 million.”

And with each purchase, you receive a piece of toast with the likeness of Jesus toasted therein. AND IF YOU ORDER RIGHT NOW, WE’LL DOUBLE THAT ORDER!!

[MacNaughton]

10 I would not be surprised if this was a modern hoax. But even if it wasn’t, there were a lot of books written early in the Christian era which contain statements which the official Church rejected as heterodox— the “Infancy Gospel,” the Gnostic Gospels, etc., etc.

Wikipedia - Nag Hammadi Codices, 1945

The Nag Hammadi library[1] is a collection of Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. Twelve leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by a local farmer named Mohammed al-Samman.[2][3] The writings in these codices comprised fifty-two mostly Gnostic treatises, but they also include three works belonging to the Corpus Hermeticum and a partial translation/alteration of Plato's Republic. In his "Introduction" to The Nag Hammadi Library in English, James Robinson suggests that these codices may have belonged to a nearby Pachomian monastery, and were buried after Bishop Athanasius condemned the use of non-canonical books in his Festal Letter of 367 AD.

The contents of the codices were written in the Coptic language, though the works were probably all translations from Greek.[4] The best-known of these works is probably the Gospel of Thomas, of which the Nag Hammadi codices contain the only complete text. After the discovery, scholars recognized that fragments of these sayings attributed to Jesus appeared in manuscripts discovered at Oxyrhynchus in 1898 (P. Oxy. 1), and matching quotations were recognized in other early Christian sources. Subsequently, a 1st or 2nd century date of composition circa 80 AD has been proposed for the lost Greek originals of the Gospel of Thomas. The buried manuscripts date from the third and fourth centuries.

The Nag Hammadi codices are housed in the Coptic Museum in Cairo, Egypt.

[RichInOC]

I’m pretty sure the manuscripts that say he was are attested back a lot farther, no?

[huldah1776]

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 LORD God declares in Isaiah 43:10 that God and His servant (42:1 My chosen one in whom My soul delights) are one. Jesus is the LORD, the LORD God said so in vs 10 of chapter 42 (I read chapters 41-43 to grasp the context. The sentence before is crucial to understanding.)
Vs 10 in whole
“You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD,
And My servant whom I have chosen,
In order that you may know and believe Me,
And understand that I am He.
Before Me there was no God formed,
And there will be none after Me.”

[Marko413]

The Apostle Paul wrote in his letters about heretical works that existed even back then. This is nothing new.

[huldah1776]

Well, that answers one question I heard from an atheist who is scared to death of the Truth. He started out a pleasant conversation about kids not listening to their elders, mentioned his grandmother who raised him was a Christian, but then when we were discussing the Bible he just started blabbing and wouldn’t stop for me to answer. One thing I did hear is that the Book of Barnabas is not in today’s Bible (he learned all this at college). Well, I sure wouldn’t include it either!