This blog has noted frequently the problem that biblical literalists are facing both from modern scientific knowledge - such as the human genome project which confirms that Adam and Eve never existed as historical persons - to new history discoveries that challenge the Church's manipulated and enforced version of the Christ story. Now, a rediscovered ancient manuscript has yet again suggested that the Church's version of Jesus' life is not accurate. The Independent has details. Here are highlights:
The so-called “Lost Gospel”, which has been translated from Aramaic, allegedly reveals the startling new allegations, according to The Sunday Times.
Professor Barrie Wilson and writer Simcha Jacobovic spent months translating the text, which they claim states Jesus had two children and the original Virgin Mary was Jesus’s wife and not his mother.
Many experts have downplayed the biblical figure’s historical importance but, according to the translators of the new gospel, she is of much greater significance than previously thought.
Mary Magdalene already features in the existing gospels and is present at many of the important moments recorded in Jesus’s life.
“The Lost Gospel” is not the first to claim that Jesus married Mary Magdalene. Both Nikos Kazantzakis in his 1953 book “The Last Temptation of Christ” and, more recently, Dan Brown in “The Da Vinci Code” made the same allegation.
Further revelations from the book, including the names of Jesus's children, will be released on Wednesday.
The publisher, Pegasus, has confirmed the press conference will go ahead as planned.
More details will follow. Expect shrieks and spittle flecked rants from those whose fragile faith depends on a literal (albeit very selective) reading of the Bible and not having to think.
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