I wrote this back in October of 2006, but wanted to add it to My Journal

The recent controversy over the newly released gospel of Judas and "The Da Vinci Code" book and upcoming movie should not alarm any historically educated Christian.

The Gospel of Judas is no more reliable history than a biography of Abraham Lincoln written by a still-loyal Confederate relative of John Wilkes Booth would be 200 years after the fact.

The "Da Vinci Code" story is based upon complete historical fabrications. Our culture, though, is largely Christian-biased and politically correct, and we never see contradictions, factual or not, of any other religion, especially coinciding with their major observances.

According to contemporary scholarship, there is far more factual and historical evidence for the New Testament than for any other book from the ancient world. All other ancient books were written hundreds of years after the events they describe. All the books in the NT were gathered and collected by the early churches as they were written and all of them were finally completed and compiled by approximately A.D. 70, 40 years or less after Christ's death.

Books were left out simply because they were unreliable as to late dates, facts or authorship -- not due to Catholic-Constantine conspiracies.

Christian thought and the understanding of who Jesus is has never changed over the centuries. It is the false claims and teaching, cults and conspiracy theories that have changed and will always come