Monday, February 27, 2012

Secret Bible which predicts coming of Mohammed discovered by Daily Mail...

Secret Bible: The 1,500-year-old tome was is said to contain Jesus' early teachings and a prediction of the Prophet's coming
The Daily Mail has recently published an article that has the Muslim blogging community buzzing with excitement and self-righteousness.
The article claims that the "secret Bible", which has been "rediscovered" in Turkey, predicts the coming of Mohammed and denies the Trinity and the crucifixion of Jesus. (The Qur'an states that Jesus was a prophet and not the Son of God, that the Trinity is a pagan heresy and that Jesus wasn't crucified but was taken up to Heaven alive and someone else put on the cross in his place.)
This "Bible", it turns out, is a version of the Gospel of Barnabas -  which is known to exist in two copies which date from the 16th century. Wikipedia has this to say about the Gospel:
The Gospel of Barnabas is a book depicting the life of Jesus, and claiming to be by Jesus' disciple Barnabas, who in this work is one of the twelve apostles. Two manuscripts are known to have existed, both dated to the late 16th century and written respectively in Italian and in Spanish—although the Spanish manuscript is now lost, its text surviving only in a partial 18th-century transcript.

It was also mentioned in 1734 by George Sale in The Preliminary Discourse to the Koran:
The Mohammedans have also a Gospel in Arabic, attributed to St. Barnabas, wherein the history of Jesus Christ is related in a manner very different from what we find in the true Gospels, and correspondent to those traditions which Mohammed has followed in his Koran. Of this Gospel the Moriscoes in Africa have a translation in Spanish; and there is in the library of Prince Eugene of Savoy, a manuscript of some antiquity, containing an Italian translation of the same Gospel, made, it is to be supposed, for the use of renegades. This book appears to be no original forgery of the Mohammedans, though they have no doubt interpolated and altered it since, the better to serve their purpose; and in particular, instead of the Paraclete or Comforter, they have, in this apocryphal gospel, inserted the word Periclyte, that is, the famous or illustrious, by which they pretend their prophet was foretold by name, that being the signification of Mohammed in Arabic; and this they say to justify that passage in the Koran where Jesus Christ is formally asserted to have foretold his coming under his other name Ahmed, which is derived from the same root as Mohammed and of the same import.
"Ah, but you are taking a very Judeo-Christian view of this discovery", Muslim apologists will say. So let us turn to an apparently academic study of the Gospel of Barnabas by a German Muslim specialist at the IslamInstitut, Prof., Dr. Christine Schirrmacher, Academic Director of the Islamic Studies Institute in Bonn
Dr Schirrmacher seems to be fairly dismissive of the gospel for the following reasons:

In the Gospel of Barnabas, the command is given by God to Mary and Joseph to keep Jesus away from wine, strong drink, and impure meat —that is, pork: the prohibition of pork and wine is, however, an Islamic prohibition, not a Christian one.
In the Gospel of Barnabas, Jesus announces the coming of Muhammad and already speaks the name of Muhammad. Jesus asks God to send Muhammad to save the world. In Jesus’time, no one knew that, six centuries after Jesus’ death, Muhammad, on the Arabian peninsula, would claim to be sent by God and to preach the truth. In the Christian view, it is impossible that Jesus announced Muhammad and asked God, his father, to send Muhammad Also inconsistent with the Koran is the oft-repeated statement in the Gospel of Barnabas that Muhammad is the Messiah, while it at the same time repeatedly denies that Jesus is the Messiah. It characterizes Jesus, however, as “chrissto” (Christ). The assumption, therefore, is that the author did not know that “Christ” is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew word for “Messiah” (“the Anointed”).
The Gospel of Barnabas itself stresses that the original Biblical gospel was falsified. If Barnabas actually would have been a contemporary of Jesus, then the formation of the New
Testament would not yet have been concluded. With this statement, the Gospel of Barnabas would have forecast its own fate. In addition, his geographical and historical mistakes make clear that the author of the Gospel of Barnabas can neither ever have visited Palestine nor can he have lived in the first post-Christian century In the Gospel of Barnabas, Nazareth is a town on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. Nazareth,however, stands upon a hill some distance from the Sea of Galilee. According to the report in the Gospel of Barnabas, Jesus ascends from the Sea of Galilee to Capernaum. Capernaum, however, lies directly on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. According to the description in the Gospel of Barnabas, Nineveh lies near the Mediterranean coast. It, however, is to be found in the interior on the banks of the Tigris.
The editors of the first Italian-English edition of the Gospel of Barnabas, Lonsdale and Laura
Ragg, in addition, point to conspicuous parallels between the Barnabas gospel and the works
of the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), such as La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), and, in particular, to Dante’s representation of Heaven, Hell, and Paradise.So, for example, the number of nine or, including Paradise, ten heavens, as well as the subdivision of Hell into seven centers in the Gospel of Barnabas agrees with Dante’s discussion of the ten heavens...The most probable date of composition of the Gospel of Barnabas lies, for Lonsdale Ragg, between 1300 and 1350 Subsequent investigators have expanded this time span to aslate as the sixteenth century.
So what of the idea that this is a secret gospel, hidden from the public by embarrassed Christians? Let us turn to the professor again:

The endorsement of this gospel’s authenticity always goes hand in hand with the Muslim claim that the Christian church has attempted to conceal this true gospel from the public. The opposite, however, is the case: the first efforts to produce a complete text of the gospel were made by Christians in 1907. Since this time, the Gospel of Barnabas has been available in a number of languages. No one in Europe had any interest in a new apocryphal text before the increase of Muslim statements in favor of the gospel.
In conclusion then, what we have is another attempt by Muslims to try to lend authenticity to their religion by dubious, not to say, underhand means.
Muslim Educational Trust (MET)
LAHORE (no date)
A typical miracle seekers attempt to convince readers that the Gospel of Barnabas is ancient and was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls

Post script: For those interested in how the Muslim miracle seekers lie to their own followers and to anyone else gullible enough to swallow their rubbish, here is a site sponsored by the Sabr Foundation all about how the Gospel of Barnabas is a genuine Gospel dating from the first century.

16 comments:

  1. You need to check your facts. The Gospel of Barnabas is the one true Gospel.
    All the others have been changed. Read the Qur'an - the answers are in there!

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  2. Ok Anonymous, how about these facts: http://www.bible.ca/islam/library/Gilchrist/barnabas.htm

    have a quick look and then come back here for a chat...

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  3. The facts !!

    The Gospel was found on the dead body of Barbabas in the year 478 AD.
    Inside the gospel found many things paralel to Islam, include the prophecy of Prophet Muhammad will
    come to this earth by Jesus a.s.

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  4. Can you give us an objective (ie non-Muslim) reference to this amazing fact?

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  5. Just because something's written in gold and is ancient does not make a claim authentic. it only shows that from early days of book publishing propaganda and nonsensical thoughts have formed book contents

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  6. All the prophets of God (From Adam PUH to Prophet Muhammed PUH) conveyed the message of oneness of God, but later Christians corrupted their Bible and made Trinity and divinity of Jesus PUH.

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  7. Who can say by looking at a newborn baby that he/she is born with sin. Can we inherit sin ?. Sin is something which we acquire during the course of our life by disobeying the rules and regulations of God, not by inheritance. In Islam, all babies are innocent; if they die in childhood, they will enter Paradise.

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  8. "Human beings are born with sin and Jesus PBUH died for the sins of Humanity" If you can believe in this, you can believe in anything. In Islam, you are accountable for what you do, not for what your father does. In Islam, sin is not a hereditary disease transmitted through generations.

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  9. HMM SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING MY SISTER WOULD WRITE IN DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO IGNORE THE TRUTHS, MUSLIMS AND JEWS AND CHRISTIANS ALL WORSHIP THE SAME GOD. WHY ARE YOU CONCERNED WITH DEFENDING CHRISTIANITY WHEN IT CLEARLY STATES IN THE BIBLE THAT COUPLING ANOTHER BEING WITH THE WORSHIP ASSIGNED TO GOD IS IDOLATRY, WHICH IS UNFORTUNATELY WHAT CHRISTIANITY DOES (TRINITY) http://myaiua.blogspot.com/2008/12/bible-does-not-teach-trinity_21.html

    SECONDLY, THE ISSUE HERE IS THAT ALL RELIGIOUS PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW THAT THE DEVIL IS RULING THE WORLD, HE IS IN CHARGE OF THOSE IN POWER AND HAS INFILTRATED CHRISTIANITY RIGHT FROM THE START, JESUS WASN'T CHRISTIAN, HE DIDN'T EAT PORK,HE PROSTRATED HIMSELF TO THE GROUND LIKE THE PROPHETS THAT CAME BEFORE HIM, HE WAS CIRCUMCISED, HE SAID FOLLOW ME. THERE SHOULD BE 73 BOOKS IN THE BIBLE NOT 66.
    ONLY ONE OF THE GOSPELS IS AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT. NATIONAL GEO HAS A LOVELY SERIES CALLED THE BIBLE UNCOVERED HIGHLIGHTING THE MANY THINGS WRONG WITH WHAT IS COMMONLY TAUGHT AS GODS TRUTH.
    WHY DO CHRISTIAN CELEBRATE THESE RITUALISTIC HOLIDAYS THAT ARE ASSIGNING WORSHIP TO THE DEVIL. REALLY, THEY SHOULD DO THEIR RESEARCH BEFORE THEY START DEFENDING THEIR BELIEFS, UNFORTUNATELY THEY ARE NOT DEFENDING GOD BECAUSE THEY WOULD BE TRYING TO DIPLOMATICALLY WORK THROUGH THESE FACTS AND GET TRUE MEANINGS FROM THEM INSTEAD OF STUBBORNLY STICKING TO THE LOVE AFFAIR THEY CULTIVATE WITH THESE CHURCHES.

    ISLAM MAKES THE POINT THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK WILL ALL BE JUDGED BY GOD, ITS NOT FOR US TO JUDGE, BUT TO SEEK TRUTHS, I'M SICK TO DEATH OF HEARING PEOPLE SLATE ISLAM AND I'M NOT A MUSLIM I WAS IN AN ELITIST RELIGION, WHICH I AM NO LONGER IN THANK GOD THEY TAUGHT ME BEFORE I LEFT THE WAYS THEY DECIDED THE PEOPLE INTO BELIEVING FALSE DOCTRINE, I SAY ISLAM ALL THE WAY AND GOD WILL NOT BE UNHAPPY WITH THIS AS THEY DO THE RIGHT THING BY WORSHIPING GOD, NOT JESUS , WHILE REVERING JESUS ABOVE ALL OTHER PROPHETS TOO SO WHATS NOT TO LIKE..

    YOUR PAGE IS WELL WRITTEN BUT HAS A RATHER SMARMY TONE.. WHY IS THIS , I DON'T REALLY THINK THAT IS THE RIGHT WAY TO START A DEBATE, THIS IS USUALLY DONE WHEN YOU ALREADY DEEP DOWN THING YOU HAVE LOST BEFORE YOU START OR YOUR JUST TRYING TO CRITICIZE WITH CORRUPT INTENTIONS, MAYBE YOUR AGENDA IS THE HIDE THE TRUTH. A DIAMOND WILL ALWAYS BE A DIAMOND NO MATTER WHAT CRAP YOU THROW AT IT.

    UNFORTUNATELY CHRISTIANITY IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY FRAGILE DUE TO THE MISTRANSLATIONS THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN THE SCRIPTURES, PLEASE DIG DEEP AND ASK YOURSELF WHAT IS IT YOUR TRYING TO ACHIEVE? TO GET TRUE WORSHIP REINSTATED FOR GOD OR TO SUPPORT A SYSTEM CREATED BY THE DEVIL TO BLIND THE MINDS? SATAN IS A GREAT DECEIVER REMEMBER, AND JESUS CLEARLY POINTS OUT THAT THE WORLD WOULD HATE TRUE WORSHIPERS OF GOD, WHICH TO ME IS MUSLIMS , THEY ARE CONSTANTLY TARGETED.. NEXT YOU WILL BE SAYING THAT THE WTC WAS BY THEM .. PFFFTTT LOOSE CHANGE AND 50 KEY WITNESSES KILLED FOR TELLING THE TRUTH .. THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING AS THATS ANOTHER STORY,

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  10. http://thedeenshow.com/nonmuslims.php?id=470
    SAY NO MORE CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS RECOGNIZE CONTRADICTIONS IN THEIR BIBLE

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  11. Dear Anonymous,
    There is no such thing as Satan. Relax. Do good for it's own sake - not because you're terrified of a despicable creation of poor, deluded religious fools.
    As for your comments on WTC, perhaps you need to read my posts on that and then come back for a chat...

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  12. hi interesting stuff, can i just point out that this book is written in Aramaic which is a dated language , it is no longer used except in the remotest parts, this other gospel that is in Italian obviously it was translated FROM a more primitive language hence the agenda that the early Christendom wanted to put out there. So the point of the matter is this Aramaic text will have info never before seen wont it? which basically is nothing to do with all the previous thoughts on the Italian text as this is original, in a language not even spoken in 16th century as it was also JESUS' mother tongue....like in the passion of Christ, that language

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  13. it says in the first chapter of the Quran, that if you take an innocent persons life, i.e the WTC, then you will burn in hellfire for eternity, so how could you explain that?.. also I worship God out of love not fear, I'm happy with the wonderful things God has given me, and like Jesus and the other worshipers of God in scripture, they didn't go through a mediator when they prayed, and Jesus also in his exemplary prayer did say in his name , he just said Amen, so how is that following Jesus who specifically said don't worship him, so why is Christianity teaching people to do this? Its corrupt , there is a Devil

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  14. "it says in the first chapter of the Quran, that if you take an innocent persons life, i.e the WTC, then you will burn in hellfire for eternity, so how could you explain that?"
    How do I explain what? That some Muslim's have interpreted their Holy book literally and assumed that killing non-believers will be rewarded by an eternity in Paradise being serviced by big breasted houris? All too likely, I'm afraid.

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    1. kill non believer and enter paradise? the killing only permitted in self defend, or when Islam is attacked, you know.. and do you know, even in war, Islam does not permit to kill woman, elderly and kid(ie. defenseless people)and also leave the church, temple or things like that alone.. and Muhammad PBUH even let the captured enemy in war to be released after teaching 10 muslim kid to read

      i bet you are kind of person believe in monkey to human evolution, and think after people die they just vanish..

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