Turkey's 1500-Year-Old, $28M Bible Linked to Gospel of Barnabas?
By Gordano
@Gordano (795)
United States
March 1, 2012 10:29pm CST
The Vatican has made an official request to gain access to a 1500-year-old Bible worth $28 million currently held by the Turkish government in Ankara, Turkey. There is speculation that the Bible may be a copy of the Gospel of Barnabas – a telling of Jesus' ministry Muslims believe is part of the original Gospels.
Photocopies of the holy book's pages are reportedly worth about $1.7 million, but the relic isn't so extremely valuable just because of its age, but also because of its construction and its contents. The Bible is handwritten in gold lettering on loosely strung together animal hide and written in Syriac. Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic – Jesus' native language. Aramaic itself is rarely present in today's society, as it is now only spoken in a small village near Damascus.
The Gospel of Barnabas is not included in the New Testament alongside Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and in fact Barnabas opposes the New Testament and rather has clear similarities to the Muslim interpretation of Jesus. Barnabas even contains a story in which Jesus predicts the coming of Prophet Muhammad. Muslims believe this original gospel has been suppressed.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/turkeys-1500-year-old-28m-bible-linked-to-gospel-of-barnabas-70148/
1500 years old clearly means that it was written 100 years before Muhammad and therefor the claim that the Gospel of Barnabas is written under the Islamic influence is a baseless claim indeed.
Do you think that we have the true & complete Gospel of Jesus Christ included in the current Bible? What is the Q source they are talking about? Do you think that there is something hidden in the story? What are your thoughts on this?
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@Chiang_Mai_boy (3882)
• Thailand
2 Mar 12
In early Christianity there were hundreds if not thousands of gospels. The modern Bible only took shape after Christianity became accepted in the Roman empire as the religion to replace the weak religion of imperial Rome. The need for an agreed upon text lead to todays Bible.
What is hidden in the story of the Qur'an? Why did the caliphate of Uthman ibn Affan order the burning of all Qur'anic material after assembling an agreed upon version?
@andy77e (5156)
• United States
2 Mar 12
Actually, prior to Rome, there were zero gospels. None at all. The modern Bible was only confirmed during the Roman empire, not created. The early church had already determined what was true, and what was not, before the Romans had anything to do with it. And Christians were tortured and killed, for following the exact same beliefs that are in our Bible today.
@EvanHunter (4026)
• United States
7 May 12
"Do you think that we have the true & complete Gospel of Jesus Christ included in the current Bible?" - True yes, complete no: John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that should be written.
@andy77e (5156)
• United States
2 Mar 12
There are other 'gospels' out there. There were hundreds of letters written by hundreds of people.
The question isn't is there other books and letters written by other people.... of course there are. The question is, are those letters and books, what G-d wanted in his completed work?
The answer is no. Why? Because they were not included. Circular logic? Nope. Christians, believe that as 2 Peter 1:21 says, 'men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.'
Now what that means is, we do not believe that a bunch of random, uninspired people got together and said "hey guys, what do you think we should put into this book here?" and they just had a little cram session and picked stuff at random, and shoved it into a book, and stamped 'bible' on the top.
Instead, we believe that all the writings that were directly inspired by G-d himself, were protected, and given to devout men through the leading of the spirit. Those people then gathered the spirit inspired writings and placed them into one book.
In short, we believe G-d divinely brought his word together, to be made into the Bible. Thus, what is left out, was meant to be left out. What was put in, is what G-d intended to be put in.
That doesn't mean there are not some other neat writings out there, that could possibly be interesting to read, but they are not the Bible, nor have the authority of the Bible, or the inspiration of the Bible.
@Metatronik (6199)
• Pasay, Philippines
3 Mar 12
So when was this discovered? I hope I could be able to read this to have more idea and to reflect as well.
@samar54 (2454)
• Egypt
4 Mar 12
they discovered it from 12 year ago ?.
Do you think that the Vatican if gets this gospel will be allowed to one acquainted with it? I do not think Because it undermines the Christian doctrine the current of basis and prove what is stated in the Quran and this is not what they want even if it was to mislead thier parishs of Christians , unfortunately
