The Judas Gospel

In the Toronto Star yesterday, the front-page story was covering the break-through translation of an old document found in the 1970's. The crumbling papyrus tells the story of an enlightened Judas who has been given special knowledge by Jesus Christ and paints him as the good guy; the guy who fulfilled his calling by surrendering Christ to the guards. According to the document, Jesus was not the Son of the Creator (since the earth was actually created by an evil force to trap spirits passing through) but the Son of the Omniscient God. So really, Jesus was just passing through earth as a spirit trapped in a human body and he needed Judas to "betray" Jesus so that he could be set free. A Gnostic text? Yes. Disturbing? Yes. Do I want to set it on fire? Yes.