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TIL: In 2006 a lost Christian gospel was translated and read for the first time in over 1500 years. In The Gospel of Judas, Jesus says the Abrahamic God is an evil lesser God named Saklas that created humanity, but that there is a higher God named Barbelo that he is the Son of.

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