Author:Pope Shenouda IIIPublisher:Theological College in Abbassia CairoPublish Year:2008Pages:81Categories:ApologeticsDescription:His Holiness Pope Shenouda III demonstrates in his book, The Foible of Bernaba's Gospel, that this is a series of lectures he began delivering in the sixties. The work reviews the myth of Barnabas gospel, its author being a monk who embraced Islam, his Jewish origin, and his Christianity and monasticism. It addresses myths in the gospel of Barnabas, the creation story, and other myths and strange exaggerations. It reveals striking tales like Adam and Eve weeping for a hundred years continuously, tears from a single eye exceeding the Jordan river, the weeping of plants and groaning of the sun, Satan's punishment of a million hells, the death of pure angels, twenty-eight thousand visible gods in Rome, Solomon's sin, a louse turning into a pearl, staying in hell for seventy thousand years, and exaggerations in describing heavens and earth. It refutes the content as a book filled with insults attributed to Christ, expressions unacceptable to hearing or taste, a book full of blasphemies and doctrinal errors, Satan and his torture, the torment of hell, signs of the end of times, numerous myths and errors, numerical exaggerations, historical and geographical errors, and specific historical and geographical mistakes. It emphasizes it is a book drowned in a lake of crying, containing tears exceeding the Jordan, a single tear quenching all of hell, weeping over sin, and unacceptable myths and doctrines.
