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Doa Yesus untuk murid-murid-Nya
(Yohanes 17:1-26)
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“injil-injil” lainnya
• Ditulis setelah abad ke 1 (setelah murid-
murid Yesus meninggal semua, kecuali
“injil” Thomas)
• “Injil” Maria Magdalena hanya ditulis dalam
bahasa Inggris & Perancis (Injil yang kita
punya sekarang ditulis dalam 3 bahasa :
Ibrani, Aramaik, Yunani)
• Pada “injil” tersebut & “injil” Yudas
dilukiskan bahwa Yesus mengawini Maria
Magdalena, punya beberapa anak dan
tinggal di Perancis Selatan
Kapan Maria & Yesus belajar bahasa
Perancis?
Ha…ha…ha….
• “Injil Maria Magdalena & Yudas mungkin bersumber dari
buku “holy blood, holy grail” (dan “Jesus’s tomb”) yg
berasal dari legenda rakyat Perancis Selatan, tentang
sebuah keluarga yang mengasingkan diri dan hanya
menyembah Tuhan saja setiap hari (tapi bisa berbahasa
Perancis dan Italia).
Kedua buku tersebut sekarang beredar dengan penerbit
dan kata pengantar dari orang yang agamanya jelas
bertentangan dengan ke-Kristen-an.
• Dalam “injil” Yudas Iskariot,
Iskariot dituliskan bahwa Yesus tidak
mati disalib tetapi digantikan oleh dirinya, sementara Yesus
diangkat ke sorga. Yudas tidak punya murid & mati muda
Kalau Yudas disalib, kapan dia menulis “injil”nya?
• “Injil” Barnabas diterbitkan dan disebarkan oleh penerbit
beragama lain. Mengandung banyak ketidak-akuratan,
contohnya dikatakan bahwa Tiberias adalah laut, bukan
danau.
Weird Stuff
• Gospel of Thomas
– “Blessings on the lion if a human eats it, making
the lion human”
– “Let Mary go away from us because women are
not worthy of life… For every woman who makes
herself male will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”
• Gospel of Philip
– “The saints are served by evil powers, for they are
blinded by the Holy Spirit into thinking that they
are serving an (ordinary) man whenever they do
so for the saints.”
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The Gospel of Thomas
1. Is it sincere?
– James: beheaded as the first
martyr of the Apostles (Acts
12:1-2)
– Bartholomew: Traditionally he
met his death by being flayed
or skinned alive, and then
beheaded at Derbent, north of
present day Baku on the
Caspian Sea or what is now
India.
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Is the Eyewitness Testimony Reliable?
1. Is it sincere?
– Thomas: Speared to death near
Madras on the east coast.
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How close in time the copies
are to the originals
• Plato (Tetralogies) 427-347 BC
– We have only 7 ancient copies
– Earliest copy: 900 AD
– The earliest one was copied 1200 years after being
written
• Roman historian Tacitus, 100 AD
– 20 copies of “Annals”
– Earliest copy: 1100 AD
– 1,000 years after being written
• Homer’s Iliad (900 BC) (2nd best manuscript
evidence behind NT)
– 643 copies
– Earliest copy: 425 BC >
– 500 years after being written
Is the Record of the Eyewitness Testimony
Reliable?
• Over 5,000 Greek Manuscripts
– Within 140 years of the originals
• 25,000+ manuscripts in other
languages (Latin, Coptic, Syriac)
– e.g., Latin translation of Old &
New Testaments dating to 150
AD by African Missionaries
• 30,000+ quotations from Church
Fathers of New Testament within
Rylands Papyri (P52)
300 years of Jesus
John 18:31-33, 37 – All but 11 verses in the New
Found in Egypt, 1920 Testament are found quoted in
Dated to approx. 130 AD the writings of the earliest >
(John died approx. 98 AD)
Christians.
Chester Beatty
Papyri
Discovered: 1930
Contains most of the New
Testament, including the four
Gospels and Acts
Dates to before 250 AD
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The Record of the Eyewitness
Testimony is Reliable!
B. Compare:
John 17:21 Disciples “one” as Father & Son
1 Cor. 1:10 Christians are “one”
Acts 4:32 “One” heart & soul
Acts 7:26 Two men set at “one” again
CONCLUSION:
A. Three Persons – One Divine Nature
B. Jesus is Jehovah, God, Divine, Deity.