Secret 1500yr old Bible in which 'Jesus predicts coming of Prophet Muhammad' unearthed in Turkey

--Vatican 'wants to see' 1,500-year-old ancient script
--Has been hidden by Turkish state for 12 years
--Handwritten in gold-lettered Aramaic
By DAILY MAIL
February 24, 2012

A secret Bible in which Jesus is believed to predict the coming of the Prophet Muhammad to Earth has sparked serious interest from the Vatican.

Pope Benedict XVI is claimed to want to see the 1,500-year-old book, which many say is the Gospel of Barnabas, that has been hidden by the Turkish state for the last 12 years.

The £14million handwritten gold lettered tome, penned in Jesus' native Aramaic language, is said to contain his early teachings and a prediction of the Prophet's coming.

Secret Bible: The 1,500-year-old tome was is said to contain Jesus' early teachings and his prediction of the Prophet's coming

Ancient: The leather-bound text, written on animal hide, was discovered by Turkish police during an anti-smuggling operation in 2000

The leather-bound text, written on animal hide, was discovered by Turkish police during an anti-smuggling operation in 2000.

It was closely guarded until 2010, when it was finally handed over to the Ankara Ethnography Museum, and will soon be put back on public display following a minor restoration.

A photocopy of a single page from the handwritten ancient manuscript is thought to be worth £1.5million.

Turkish culture and tourism minister Ertugrul Gunay said the book could be an authentic version of the Gospel, which was suppressed by the Christian Church for its strong parallels with the Islamic view of Jesus.

He also said the Vatican had made an official request to see the scripture - a controversial text which Muslims claim is an addition to the original gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John.
In line with Islamic belief, the Gospel treats Jesus as a human being and not a God.

Historic: The £14million handwritten gold lettered tome is penned in Jesus' native Aramaic language

It rejects the ideas of the Holy Trinity and the Crucifixion and reveals that Jesus predicted the coming of the Prophet Muhammad.

In one version of the gospel, he is said to have told a priest: 'How shall the Messiah be called? Muhammad is his blessed name'.

And in another Jesus denied being the Messiah, claiming that he or she would be Ishmaelite, the term used for an Arab.

Despite the interest in the newly re-discovered book, some believe it is a fake and only dates back to the 16th century.

The oldest copies of the book date back to that time, and are written in Spanish and Italian.
Protestant pastor İhsan Özbek said it was unlikely to be authentic.

This is because St Barnabas lived in the first century and was one of the Apostles of Jesus, in contrast to this version which is said to come from the fifth or sixth century.

He told the Today Zaman newspaper: 'The copy in Ankara might have been written by one of the followers of St Barnabas.

'Since there is around 500 years in between St Barnabas and the writing of the Bible copy, Muslims may be disappointed to see that this copy does not include things they would like to see.

'It might have no relation with the content of the Gospel of Barnabas.'

Theology professor Ömer Faruk Harman said a scientific scan of the bible may be the only way to reveal how old it really is.

Shape-shifting Jesus spent his last supper with Pontius Pilate, claims just-deciphered 1,200-year-old Egyptian manuscript (DailyMail)

...Claim explains why Judas used a kiss to betray Jesus, since he could have transformed to foil any attempt at description

...Manuscript also claims that Pontius Pilate offered his own son for crucifixion in place of the Messiah - but Jesus declined

By DAMIEN GAYLE
DAILYMAIL
March 14, 2013

A 1,200-year-old Egyptian manuscript tells the story of the crucifixion with incredible plot twists - including the revelation that Jesus could change shape.

The ancient illuminated text's claim explains why Judas used a kiss to betray Jesus, since the Christian Messiah had the ability to transform his appearance.

It also claims Jesus in fact spent his last supper with the man who ordered his execution, Roman prefect Pontius Pilate, who is said to have offered to sacrifice his own son in Jesus' place.


Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper': A newly deciphered manuscript claims Jesus could change shape at will and in fact had his last supper with Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect who sentenced him to death

And it defies the official Easter timeline by putting the day of Jesus' arrest on Tuesday evening, rather than the canonically agreed Thursday.

The translation from the original Coptic has been revealed for the first time in a new book by Roelof van den Broek, emeritus professor of the History of Christianity at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

In the commonly-accepted Bible story it is claimed that the apostle Judas agrees to betray Jesus in exchange for cash, then kissed him to reveal his identity. The newly-deciphered text explains that, far from a sign of affection or guilt, the kiss was Judas' way of forestalling any shape-shifting confusion.

'The Jews said to Judas: How shall we arrest him [Jesus], for he does not have a single shape but his appearance changes. Sometimes he is ruddy, sometimes he is white, sometimes he is red, sometimes he is wheat coloured, sometimes he is pallid like ascetics, sometimes he is a youth, sometimes an old man...' it reads.

For a man who could walk on water, raise the dead, feed 5,000 people with just a single loaf of bread and a fish, and turn water into wine, such abilities are perhaps unsurprising.

But shape-shifting is not the only superpower the ancient manuscript attributes to Jesus - it also says that he could even turn himself invisible. It claims that on the night before his crucifixion, Jesus ate dinner with Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect who decided his sentence - who, it is said, remarkably offered his son to be crucified in place of the Messiah.

Jesus declined the offer, explaining that if he could escape from his fate if he wanted to.
'Pilate, then, looked at Jesus and, behold, he became incorporeal: He did not see him for a long time,' the text says. Later that night, according to the manuscript, Pilate and his wife dreamed of an eagle representing Jesus being killed.

The incredible text, which is thought to be some 1,200 years old, is written in the name of St Cyril of Jerusalem, although, Professor van den Broek says, it was probably written by someone else. Back then it was looked after by monks at the Monastery of St Michael in the desert of north-west Egypt, south of Cairo.

The text was rediscovered in 1910 and, the following year, it was bought along with other manuscripts by the wealthy Wall Street financier JP Morgan. Morgan's collections were later given to the public and they are now kept in the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City.


A scene from the film 'The Passion of the Christ': The new manuscript offers a very different account of the days and events leading up to the death of Jesus from the conventional one given by the Bible

Professor van den Broek told LiveScience that the Bible was already canonised in Egypt by the time the text was written, but that such apocryphal stories nevertheless remained popular among believers.

He said he was not convinced that the monk who wrote down the story necessarily believed all the details in it, 'but some details, for instance the meal [Pontius Pilate had] with Jesus, he may have believed to have really happened.'

'The people of that time, even if they were well-educated, did not have a critical historical attitude,' he added. 'Miracles were quite possible, and why should an old story not be true?'
Professor van den Broek's book, Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem on the Life and the Passion of Christ, is out now, published by Brill.

Foretelling the truth of Jesus' departure in The 'Apocalypse of Peter' is concurrent with the Islamic Quran`s version

The Apocalypse of Peter - The Nag Hammadi Library [The Gnostic Society Library]

About the Nag Hammadi Library (The Nag Hammadi Scriptures):

"The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient codices containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945. This immensely important discovery includes a large number of primary "Gnostic Gospels" -- texts once thought to have been entirely destroyed during the early Christian struggle to define "orthodoxy" -- scriptures such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Truth.

The discovery and translation of the Nag Hammadi library, completed in the 1970's, has provided impetus to a major re-evaluation of early Christian history and the nature of Gnosticism."
From Agreeableviews816 [In the Name of Allah]: " The Apocalypse of Peter" - 

In 1945, "The Apocalypse of Peter" was among the ancient manuscripts found and discovered in Egypt`s Nag Hammadi library, dated by scholars to the 1st or 2nd century CE.

...Whats interesting about this version of the Gospel is that it confirms the Quran`s  revelation about Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) being literally substituted on the cross:

 وَقَوْلِهِمْ إِنَّا قَتَلْنَا الْمَسِيحَ عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَمَا قَتَلُوهُ وَمَا صَلَبُوهُ وَلَـكِن شُبِّهَ لَهُمْ وَإِنَّ الَّذِينَ اخْتَلَفُواْ فِيهِ لَفِى شَكٍّ مِّنْهُ مَا لَهُمْ بِهِ مِنْ عِلْمٍ إِلاَّ اتِّبَاعَ الظَّنِّ وَمَا قَتَلُوهُ يَقِيناً 

      (And because of their saying, "We killed Al-Masih `Isa (Jesus), son of Maryam, the  
      Messenger of Allah,'' but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but it appeared as that to 
      them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts. They have no (certain) knowledge, 
      they follow nothing but conjecture. For surely; they killed him not.) Noble Qur`an, Sura 
      An-Nisa, 4:157


The Apocalypse of Peter foretells this (the above) confirming Revelation:


     ...When he had said those things, I saw him seemingly being seized by them. And I said 
     "What do I see, O Lord? That it is you yourself whom they take, and that you are grasping 
     me? Or who is this one, glad and laughing on the tree? And is it another one whose feet  
     and hands they are striking?..."

     The Savior (Jesus, peace be upon him) said to me, "He whom you saw on the tree, glad 
     and laughing, this is the living Jesus. But this one into whose hands and feet they drive 
     the nails is his fleshly part, which is the substitute being put to shame, the one who came 
     into being in his likeness. But look at him and me."

     But I, when I had looked, said "Lord, no one is looking at you. Let us flee this place."

     But he said to me, "I have told you, 'Leave the blind alone!'. And you, see how they do not 
     know what they are saying. For the son of their glory instead of my servant, they have put 
     to shame."

This historical piece of manuscript seems to support the revelation in the noble Qur`an and Islamic belief concerning the crucifixion of Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) as well as validating the Qur`an as the word of God Almighty.

In the pursuit of truth and harmony - may we all find peace and happiness and may God bless us all in our endeavors. We ask the Almighty to help us praise Him the way He should be praised and topray to Him as He as ordained.

2512: The Man behind the cross - Sheikh Mumtaz Ul Haq (Ink of Scholars)

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2512 The Man behind the cross
A lecture by Sheikh Mumtaz Ul Haq

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