Well well well well. You know the whole "Gospel of Judas" stink of a few months ago? Apparently there were some major problems with the translation done by National Geographic that skewed it in the direction it went. (Hat Tip: Rod Dreher)
As I've remarked previously, these attempts to overthrow the foundations of Christianity on the basis of late gnostic writings are nothing new. Mainstream Christian scholars are quite aware of them and have been for some time; they are dismissed simply and decisively because there's no substance (and never has been) to this whole sensationalistic enterprise. Lay people, however, can become disturbed upset by it, which is precisely the intent (besides making money) of those promoting this agenda. To take care of this problem on a long term basis, we need to teach more theology and history in our churches. Trying to skip from the first to the sixteenth to the twenty-first century while ignoring everything in between simply isn't working.
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