>”Others again declare that Cain derived his being from the Power above, and acknowledge that Esau, Korah, the Sodomites, and all such persons, are related to themselves. On this account, they add, they have been assailed by the Creator, yet no one of them has suffered injury. For Sophia was in the habit of carrying off that which belonged to her from them to herself. They declare that Judas the traitor was thoroughly acquainted with these things, and that he alone, knowing the truth as no others did, accomplished the mystery of the betrayal; by him all things, both earthly and heavenly, were thus thrown into confusion. They produce a fictitious history of this kind, which they style the Gospel of Judas.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
H.-C. Puech and Beate Blatz<\/strong>,\u00a0New Testament Apocrypha<\/em>, vol. 1, p. 387:<\/p>\n“Dating: the Gospel of Judas was of course composed before 180, the date at which it is mentioned for the first time by Irenaeus in adv. Haer.<\/em>\u00a0If it is in fact a Cainite work, and if this sect – assuming it was an independent gnostic group – was constituted in part, as has sometimes been asserted, in dependence on the doctrine of Marcion, the apocryphon can scarcely have been composed before the middle of the 2nd century. This would, however, be to build on weak arguments. At most we may be inclined to suspect a date between 130 and 170 or thereabouts.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Boyd Jennings Were you alarmed to hear that another gospel has been discovered?\u00a0\u00a0Before we continue, let\u2019s remember what Jesus told the twelve minus Judas. \u00a0\u201cHowever, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into\u00a0all\u00a0truth\u201d\u00a0(John 16:13).\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s why Paul wrote by inspiration of God\u2014twice,\u00a0\u201cBut even if we, or an angel from heaven,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[660,130],"class_list":["post-17163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-apocrypha","tag-canon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17168,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/reflections-on-the-gospel-of-judas\/","url_meta":{"origin":17163,"position":0},"title":"Reflections on the “Gospel of Judas”","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"by\u00a0Ethan R. 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Were you alarmed to hear that another gospel has been discovered?\u00a0\u00a0Before we continue, let\u2019s remember what Jesus told the twelve minus Judas. \u00a0\u201cHowever, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into\u00a0all<\/u>\u00a0truth<\/u>\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(John 16:13).\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s why Paul wrote by inspiration of God\u2014twice,\u00a0\u201cBut even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(Galatians 1:8-9).<\/p>\n