On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:39:24 +0100, "Ivica"  wrote:

>Mo?e li se znati koji je razlog ovog tvog posta ?

Ljubav prema krivovjerjima i falsifikatima, pretpostavljam. Tzv.
evandjelje po Barnabi je srednjovjekovni muslimanski falsifikat. 

http://answering-islam.org/Nehls/Answer/barnabas.html

Izvadak:

"After examining the text, the external and internal evidence, and
after having discovered its medieval character and the obvious attempt
to islamise this "Gospel", we conclude that the Gospel of Barnabas was
written by a Muslim to convince Christians of "the truth of Islam".
Instead of propagating Islam, he disguised the message and used the
name of Barnabas to make his claims seem authentic. It is therefore, a
forgery and a lie. It aims at destroying faith in the fundamentals of
the Christian faith, including the atoning work of Christ on the
cross. Christians disapprove for obvious reasons to such methods as
forgery and lies. 

We are bewildered that serious Muslims can devise such a book and
promote it on such flimsy grounds, knowing it is a lie. Even when it
is tempting to be used and expedient, this approach must be rejected.
We regard it as a feeble effort to disguise the truth. We conclude
that only when at a loss for better arguments could a dishonest man
resort to such methods."

http://answering-islam.org/Gilchrist/barnabas.html
Citat:

"b). Quotations from Dante. 

Dante was an Italian who, significantly, also lived about the time of
Pope Boniface and wrote his famous "Divina Comedia" in the fourteenth
century. This was basically a fantasy about hell, purgatory and
paradise according to the Roman Catholic beliefs of his times. 

Now in the Gospel of Barnabas we read that Jesus allegedly said of the
prophets of old: 


'Readily and with gladness they went to their death, so as not to
offend against the law of God given by Moses his servant, and go and
serve false and lying gods'. (Gospel of Barnabas, p.27). 
The expression "false and lying gods" (dei falsi e lugiardi) is found
elsewhere in the Gospel of Barnabas as well. On one occasion it is
Jesus again who supposedly uses these words (p.99) and on another it
is the author himself who describes Herod as serving "false and lying
gods" (p.267). Nevertheless this expression is found in neither the
Bible nor the Qur'an. What is interesting, however, is that it is a
direct quote from Dante! (Inferno 1.72). Many of the descriptions of
hell in the Gospel of Barnabas (pp. 76-77) are reminiscent of those in
the third canto of Dante's Inferno as well. 

Likewise the expression "raging hunger" (rabbiosa fame) is also
reminiscent of the first canto of Dante's Inferno. Both speak of the
"circles of hell" and the author of the Gospel of Barnabas also makes
Jesus say to Peter: 


'Know ye therefore that hell is one, yet hath seven centres one below
another. Hence, even as sin is of seven kinds, for as seven gates of
hell hath Satan generated it: so there are seven punishments therein'.
(The Gospel of Barnabas, p.171). 
This is precisely Dante's description found in the fifth and sixth
cantos of his Inferno. We could go on and quote many more examples but
space here demands that we press on to other evidences that the Gospel
of Barnabas was written in the Middle Ages. One striking quote must be
mentioned, however, because in this case the Gospel of Barnabas agrees
with Dante while contradicting the Qur'an. We read in the Qur'an that
there are seven heavens: 


He it is who created for you all that is in the earth. Then turned He
to the heaven, and fashioned it as seven heavens. Surah 2.29 
On the contrary we read in the Gospel of Barnabas that there are nine
heavens and that Paradise like Dante's Empyrean - is the tenth heaven
above all the other nine. The author of the Gospel of Barnabas makes
Jesus say: 


'Paradise is so great that no man can measure it. Verily I say unto
thee that the heavens are nine ... I say to thee that paradise is
greater than all the earth and all the heavens together'. (The Gospel
of Barnabas, p.223). 
Clearly the author of the Gospel of Barnabas knew Dante's work and had
no scruples to quote from it. Accordingly we have further evidence
that the Gospel of Barnabas could not have been written earlier than
the fourteenth century - hundreds of years after the times of Jesus
and Muhammad. It is accordingly a worthless forgery which should be
disowned as such by every Muslim who believes in his heart that no lie
can be of the truth. 

c). The Mediaeval Environment of the Gospel. 

The author of the Gospel of Barnabas claims to have been with Jesus
throughout his ministry and accordingly must have walked with him
throughout the land of Palestine during those three years that Jesus
served the people of Israel. In the circumstances we would expect to
find a first-century, Palestinian environment in his book - such as we
find in the four true Gospels of the Christian Bible. But we are
astonished to find many incidents which betray a mediaeval,
western-European background in the Gospel of Barnabas. Firstly we
read: 


'Behold then how beautiful is the world in summer-time, when all
things bear fruit. The very peasant, intoxicated with gladness by
reason of the harvest that is come, maketh the valleys and mountains
resound with his singing, for that he loveth his labours supremely'.
(The Gospel of Barnabas, p.217). 
This is a fair description of Spain or Italy in summer but most
certainly not of Palestine where the rain falls in winter and where
the fields are parched in summer. In any event Palestine has always
been a part of the world where cultivation of the land has required
much effort and where much of the countryside is barren and grassless.
We find it surprising that this land should be appealed to as one
which in summer-time is a good example of the delightful environment
of Paradise. Indeed Jesus is alleged to have delivered this discourse
to his disciples in the wilderness beyond the Jordan (p.211) where
they were hardly likely to have any evidence of the glories of the
lush gardens of Paradise. 

Again we read in the Gospel of Barnabas that Martha, her sister Mary,
and her brother Lazarus were the overlords of two towns, Magdala and
Bethany (p.242). This proprietorship of villages and towns belongs to
the Middle Ages when the system of feudalism was rooted in European
society. Certainly no such practice was known at the time of Jesus
when the occupying Roman forces controlled most of the land of
Palestine. 

These anachronisms rule out any possibility that the Gospel of
Barnabas is genuinely what it claims to be. It does well appear to be
a forgery of the Middle Ages written by a Muslim who, probably
frustrated at being unable to prove that the true Gospels in the Bible
are corrupted, wrote a false Gospel and proclaimed that his corruption
was the truth! A similar example of the mediaeval environment of this
Gospel is the reference in it to wine casks (p.196), for wine was
stored in skins in Palestine (Matthew 9.17) while wooden casks were
used in Europe in the Middle Ages. 

In conclusion, however, it must be pointed out that whereas the author
of the Gospel of Barnabas reveals in his book that he has an accurate
knowledge of the structure of mediaeval society, he simultaneously
exposes his ignorance of the land of Palestine which he is supposed to
have traversed as a disciple of Jesus for at least three years! He
says: 


Having arrived at the city of Nazareth the sea-men spread through the
city all that Jesus had wrought. (The Gospel of Barnabas, p.23). 
In this passage Nazareth is represented as a coastal city, a harbour
on the lake of Galilee. After this we read that Jesus "went up to
Capernaum" (p.23) from Nazareth, as though Capernaum was in the
hillside near the sea of Galilee. Here the author really has his facts
incorrect, for Capernaum was the coastal city and Nazareth was up in
the hills (where it is to this day). Jesus would have gone up from
Capernaum to Nazareth, not the other way around as the author of the
Gospel of Barnabas has it. This evidence also shows that the author of
the Gospel of Barnabas lived in Europe in the Middle Ages rather than
in Palestine at the time of Jesus. "


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