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Imagine a Bible that begins like this: God said, “I am the Lord thy God, and there are no other gods but me.” Then a voice came out of the deepest heaven and said, “Thou liest, god of the blind!” Or ...

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LOST AND FOUND. In 2006, a published English translation and a documentary by the National Geographic Society sparked a storm of public interest in the "lost Gospel of Judas." The third- or ...

When the first translation of the long-lost Gospel of Judas was published last year amid considerable publicity, a few scholars trumpeted its apparent depiction of Judas Iscariot as a positive figure ...

James King had dozens of people under his sway, and his obscure New Gnostic Church had few issues with the outside world—until he and his mistress seduced the 17-year-old daughter of two church ...

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