It reiterates the themes of the spiritual divinity and the kingdom of heaven. It consists of conversations between Jesus and Judas Iscariot. In the synoptic gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John, Judas is also included but he is portrayed differently. In the Gospel of Judas, he is a portrayal of Jesus instead of a betrayer of Jesus. In the gospel, Jesus often laughs at the apostles for their ignorance, and he provides a different explanation of Jesus. In addition, he concludes Judas as the thirteenth disciple and he commissions Judas to portray him. Throughout the conversations between Jesus and Judas an insight on salvation is provided along with an impair few on the generation of amongst …show more content…
In the conversations between Jesus and Judas, Jesus says that “[he] went to another great generation,” and he stated that the generation among Judas was the “generation of humanity,” that is defiled, (The Gospel of Judas, 2). The people are not fulfilling the expectations of God they are simply acting out of stupidity in terms of the entrapments of the earthly things. Jesus says “the souls of every human generation will die, when these people, however, have completed the time of the kingdom and the spirit leaves them, their bodies will die but their souls will be alive, and they will be taken up,” (The Gospel of Judas, 3). Here the prerequisite of salvation is being exuberated. It is guaranteed that the bodily or physical state of the human beings will cease. However, if they are faithful followers of Jesus Christ and his kingdom on earth, they will be granted eternal life. The casting of the bodily things as a restriction in the generation of humanity allows salvation to be considered a result of knowledge rather than the standard perception of salvation being a result of sin and