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hrmjustin

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Thu May 8, 2014, 05:50 PM May 2014

1500-Year-Old Bible Discovered In Turkey Indicates Jesus Christ Was Not Crucified

Donovan Longo

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."

http://www.latintimes.com/1500-year-old-bible-discovered-turkey-indicates-jesus-christ-was-not-crucified-171471

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1500-Year-Old Bible Discovered In Turkey Indicates Jesus Christ Was Not Crucified (Original Post) hrmjustin May 2014 OP
Pretty much straight-up Gnosticism. okasha May 2014 #1

okasha

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1. Pretty much straight-up Gnosticism.
Thu May 8, 2014, 09:07 PM
May 2014

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