The Forgotten Gospel of St. Barnabas

Introduction

Incessant search for Truth took me away from Christianity and brought me back, by the grace of Almighty Allah, Rahman and Rahim, to Islam, the religion of my fore-fathers.

For my coming back to the fold of Islam, the cause was the inspiration given to me through a dream wherein I seem to have been blessed with the personal blessings of the Holy Prophet (p.b.u.h.). I praise God and pray for His Holy Prophet (P.b.u.h.) and am overjoyed to find the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) who gave man his dignity and the freedom to act by his own choice.

Change of heart comes from Almighty God. In fact without His guidance, all our searching and all our efforts, however skilful to find the Truth, may lead us astray.

We need guiding vision and conviction without which no argument, however cogent, nor ay eloquence however impassioned, nor learning however deep, will ever make man satisfied unless he has the proof within his own soul. The only way to have it, is to receive it as a free gift from God Almighty, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

Much has been said and written by the Christian Pontiffs about Jesus. His sayings and teachings are supposedly contained in the Four Gospels of the so-called Apostles, Canonized centuries after the Ascension of Jesus by the order of the Roman Emperor Constantine.

This happened in the year 325 C.E. In compliance will the imperial command two thousand and eight bishops assembled at Nicaea to debate, discuss and decide theological matters and also select, by common agreement, those books from a vast collection of manuscripts which, in their judgement, constituted the authorised word of God.

Now these bishop who were commanded by an Emperor to exercise judgement in determining the books that contained the word of God were all torn between worldly powers, personal ambition and Ignorance. Sabinus, the learned bishop of Heraclea recorded that “excepting Constantine himself and Eusblus Pambhibus, they were a set of illiterate, simple creatures that understood nothing.” Idiots as they were, Pappus recounts that “having promiscuously put all the books that were referred to the Council for determination under the communion table in the Church, they besought the Lord that the inspired writings might get upon the table, while the spurious one remained underneath.”

Out of some fifty Gospels, then existent, only those of Mathew, Mark, Luke and John were selected. The rest were rejected. The Emperor then decreed that the above decision be considered as sanctioned by the Divine Will and that the above mentioned Four Gospels should implicit the word of God. He also ordered that the rejected manuscripts along with the writings of ARIUS be burnt and that anyone found to be possessing, concealing or otherwise preaching anything other than the authorised word of God shall be punished with death. All bishop bowed before the power. His Imperial Majesty Constantine, thus produce the first copy of New Testament.

Thomas Paine says:

“The Councils of Nicaea and Locodicea were held about 350 CE. years after the time Christ, is said to have lived; and the books that now compose the New Testament were then voted for by AYES and NOES, as we now vote a law. A great many that were offered had a majority of NAYS and were rejected. This is the way the New Testament came into being”. (Age of Reason, p. 92).

None of these Gospels however, separately or all collectively, gives an honest account of the whole life of Jesus, his sayings, teachings and doings. They are full of contradictions and anomalies, and even some Christian scholars have declared Jesus to be a Mythical personality contrary wise to the real historical Jesus, which Islam has authentically asserted to have been existed. Digest and confusion are inspired by the present day Christianity which was born out of the Constantine’s system of democratically deciding to find the real Gospels out of the fifty presented in 325 C.E. The religion of Jesus, of course, is divine but the Gospels are not divine, they are man-made, approved by the majority of the Council of Nicaea gathered together under the orders of Constantine. Christianity has thus lost its Divine Character nor for one reason alone; but for many, because it is in total opposition to the Divine positions and teachings of God’s Messengers sent to the people of the world, before the arrival of Jesus in the world.

The thirst for truth was not quenched. It remained increasing even when I was an ordained Priest of the Church of England, India, Ceylon and Pakistan. I had read and learnt about St. Barnabas, and also that the under the guidance of Jesus had declared Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) as the last Messiah in his Gospel. This Gospel was, however, condemned later on by the Pontiffs of Christianity, being in opposition and contrary to their own beliefs received from St. Paul- the de facto founder of Modem Christianity which centres around the doctrine of Trinity created by him.

Again and again I sat down to study the Gospels, Epistles and Acts of Apostles etc. on which Christianity is based and made a comparative study of the Gospels of St. Barnabas and the Four Gospels etc. I have recorded my empirical observation for Christians and Muslims both to learn the truth about St. Barnabas and his Gospel in my treatise “Gospel Vs. Gospels”- The truth about the “Lost Gospel”- Barnabas.

Human hands cannot replace the Divine Hand. Bags made by God cannot be replaced by man-made bags. The Divine revelation given to Jesus having lost purity in the New Testament is here for all to see for themselves. On this point Muir, in his book, ‘Life of Muhammad’, states as follows:

“The Christianity of the seventh century was itself decrepit and corrupt. It was disabled by contending schisms, and had substituted the puerilities of superstitions for the pure expensive faith of early ages.”

I pray to Almighty Allah to bestow light on all human beings of the world and guide them to the right path of LIFE.

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