RELIGIONS: Jesus the Christ, and Christianity

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:

Pseudo-Cyril  of Jerusalem on the Life and the Passion of Christ, BY, Roelof van den Broek, emeritus  professor of the History of Christianity at Utrecht University in the  Netherlands.

By  Damien Gayle  UK Daily Mail

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(Just when you thought you had heard it all…ED)

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.

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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...

.. 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.
 

DID JESUS AND MARY MAGDALENE MARRY AND HAVE CHILDREN?

 

A recently  uncovered fragment of ancient papyrus makes the explosive suggestion that Jesus  and Mary Magdalene were man and wife, researchers say.

The 8cm by 4cm  fragment supports an undercurrent in Christian thought that undermines centuries of Church dogma by suggesting the Christian Messiah was not celibate.

The centre of the  fragment contains the bombshell phrase where Jesus, speaking to his disciples, says ‘my wife’, which researchers believe refers to Magdalene.

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.

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