Epic Guide

The gospel of Judas is really really confusing, What’s even more confusing about it is the fact that many of the “secret” teachings of Jesus are still secrets because they were lost. The gospel is really valuable because it offers a re-visionist history of the passion events as early as the 2nd century! It’s teachings however, are classically Sethian, and not really relevant to any sort of popular Christianity. The idea of a Supreme Deity over and against the deity of this world deviates tremendously from modern and popular conceptions of God. I think the most valuable thing that the gospel offers is the idea of dualism that is, duality of soul and body. Certainly not a new concept, in fact it generally is frowned upon, however this gospel attaches this concept of duality to a panentheistic vision of God…which is unique. The Gospel of Judas asserts that there is a certain group of people (Sethians) who have a “divine spark” and that those people have been “entraped” by their physical bodies through the work of the rebellious God of the Jews. Which is why when Jesus asks Judas to turn him over to the authorities, he says, “You will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man that clothes me.”