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What if the story we’ve been told for 2,000 years was only one version—and the truth was buried? The Gospel of Barnabas tells a radically different tale: Jesus wasn’t crucified. Judas was. This book was banned, erased, and forbidden for a reason. Let’s ask why.
This isn’t about belief. It’s about asking the questions we were told never to ask. In this cinematic deep dive, we explore the mysterious Gospel of Barnabas—a suppressed text that claims Jesus wasn’t crucified and that Judas died in his place.
Why was this gospel banned? Who decided it was dangerous? And what does it mean that early Christians—real believers—once followed this version of the story?
We’ll also examine the Council politics, lost gospels like Thomas and Mary, the theology of Origen, and the suppressed truth about reincarnation in early Christianity. Along the way, we explore how history is shaped—not just by facts, but by those who control the narrative.
This episode isn’t here to convert or convince. It’s here to stir your mind. What if Jesus wanted us to know more of the story... and someone chose to keep it hidden?
We’re not here to take sides—we open doors. And if the forbidden gospels were erased to protect something, we deserve to know what.
If you're drawn to the questions others avoid, you're in the right place. Join *The Maverick Mind* as we uncover the buried, the banned, and the forgotten—and decide for ourselves what truth really means.
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What if the story we’ve been told for 2,000 years was only one version—and the truth was buried? The Gospel of Barnabas tells a radically different tale: Jesus wasn’t crucified. Judas was. This book was banned, erased, and forbidden for a reason. Let’s ask why.
This isn’t about belief. It’s about asking the questions we were told never to ask. In this cinematic deep dive, we explore the mysterious Gospel of Barnabas—a suppressed text that claims Jesus wasn’t crucified and that Judas died in his place.
Why was this gospel banned? Who decided it was dangerous? And what does it mean that early Christians—real believers—once followed this version of the story?
We’ll also examine the Council politics, lost gospels like Thomas and Mary, the theology of Origen, and the suppressed truth about reincarnation in early Christianity. Along the way, we explore how history is shaped—not just by facts, but by those who control the narrative.
This episode isn’t here to convert or convince. It’s here to stir your mind. What if Jesus wanted us to know more of the story... and someone chose to keep it hidden?
We’re not here to take sides—we open doors. And if the forbidden gospels were erased to protect something, we deserve to know what.
If you're drawn to the questions others avoid, you're in the right place. Join *The Maverick Mind* as we uncover the buried, the banned, and the forgotten—and decide for ourselves what truth really means.
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00:00Somewhere in a locked vault, in the dust of forgotten shelves, the gospel waited for centuries.
00:07It tells a story that breaks everything we've ever been told about our history.
00:13Not to just simply destroy belief, but to challenge who gave it to us.
00:19What if Jesus wasn't crucified?
00:22We're going to be talking about the gospel of Barnabas.
00:25The gospel that most people have never heard of.
00:28The gospel of Barnabas is an ancient manuscript said to have been hidden for centuries.
00:34It tells a version of Jesus' life that breaks with everything in the official canon.
00:40In this telling, Jesus wasn't crucified.
00:43He wasn't the literal son of God.
00:46And Judas didn't just betray him.
00:48Judas became him.
00:50According to this gospel, Judas was made to look like Jesus.
00:55He was crucified in Jesus' place while Jesus escaped, alive.
01:00The story didn't just drift into obscurity.
01:03It was buried.
01:05Named heresy, banned, and erased.
01:07But here's the question.
01:09If it's fiction, why is it feared?
01:13You usually don't erase what's harmless, what's fake.
01:16You erase what threatens to rewrite the narrative.
01:19In the gospel of Barnabas, Jesus knows what's coming.
01:24He begs God to save him.
01:27And in response, Judas is transformed, his face altered to look exactly like Jesus.
01:32He is seized, mocked, and crucified while the real Jesus ascends.
01:37No resurrection, no tomb, no crown of thorns.
01:40But even stranger, this gospel predicts the coming of Muhammad, aligning closely with Islamic theology.
01:49That one detail was enough for many to call it a Muslim forgery.
01:54But here's the paradox.
01:55If Muslim came after Christianity, how could this gospel contain teachings that align with the Quran,
02:02unless those ideas had deeper roots?
02:05What if the Quran didn't invent that story of Jesus?
02:08What if it just simply preserved it?
02:12Now, the Bible isn't the only book that says this.
02:15As many know, the Bible isn't just one book.
02:17It's a carefully edited collection, a canon, not a revelation.
02:22Dozens of gospels were written in the first centuries,
02:24and the gospel of Mary, the gospel of Thomas, the gospel of truth, the Acts of John,
02:29many of them offered radically different pictures of Jesus.
02:32Some claimed he never died.
02:34Some said salvation wasn't external, but internal.
02:37Some gave voice to women, others to the soul.
02:40They were labeled dangerous, not because they were provably false, but because they were inconvenient.
02:47What does it say about a religion when its earliest voices had to be silenced?
02:52Why did the council in the 4th century get to decide what millions would be allowed to believe in for the next 2,000 years?
02:59They weren't preserving truth.
03:02They were choosing which version of truth would survive.
03:05As you start to feel that shift to one where something doesn't sit quite right,
03:09pause for a second, because you're not here by accident.
03:12If you're still watching, you already know this isn't about shock.
03:15It's about peeling back the veil.
03:17If you're drawn to asking questions most people avoid, this is the place.
03:21And if you want to help keep this work unfiltered and fiercely independent, that's what my Patreon is for.
03:28You're not just supporting a channel.
03:30You're helping build a community of co-creators that thinks like this,
03:33that simply is not afraid to ask questions and why.
03:36Why is this?
03:37Why is that?
03:37Why do we have to just accept everything the way that it is?
03:42I'm not claiming, for example, that this gospel is true or not.
03:46I don't know.
03:48Do you know?
03:48How do we know?
03:51Either way, please do make a point of liking and subscribing.
03:54Now, let's go deeper.
03:55Scholars call the Gospel of Barnabas a medieval forgery.
03:59I was always under the impression that a forgery was a copy of something that was real that turned out to be fake.
04:05So this seems to be a bit of a stretch on those terms, but I guess maybe it's just another definition that I'm not as clear about.
04:13They point to inconsistencies, language that belongs to later centuries, descriptions of wine and wooden caskets, references that feel a little too modern.
04:22But forgeries don't usually survive centuries unless they're hitting a nerve.
04:26Maybe the real reason isn't, was this the original gospel?
04:30Maybe it's, why does this story keep showing up in different cultures, in different languages across history?
04:35This is not the only book that mentions this story.
04:38We find echoes of this in the second treatise of the great Seth, a Gnostic text that says,
04:45Even in early Christianity, there were already those who believed that crucifixion was an illusion, a shadow play for a deeper truth.
05:02You don't need to believe that to ask why so many did feel that way.
05:06How did people in those early days question that?
05:12And we are not even told that they even had a question.
05:16In 2012, a 1,500-year-old Bible surfaced in Turkey, written in Syriq.
05:22It contained a gospel where Jesus denies being crucified and foretells the coming of Muhammad.
05:27The Vatican requested access.
05:30Now, whether or not it was the gospel of Barnabas, the fact remains,
05:35the version of Jesus exists that we're never meant to see.
05:38And here's something most people don't know.
05:40One of the most respected early Christian fathers taught a form of reincarnation.
05:46He said,
05:47The soul was neither beginning nor end.
05:49It passes through multiple lives depending on its actions.
05:53That wasn't fringe.
05:54At the time, it was mainstream theology,
05:56until it was erased in the Second Council of Constantinople in 553 AD.
06:02Think about that for a moment.
06:03But early Christianity taught as just part of the canon about reincarnation,
06:10and they just arbitrarily decided to take it out.
06:12Why would they do that?
06:13So it's not just texts that were buried.
06:16Ideas, mystics, entire paths of awakening.
06:19Every time something threatened the gatekeeper's control, it was labeled heresy.
06:24And isn't that the oldest story in history?
06:27Truth isn't killed, it's rewritten.
06:29Now let's step back for a moment.
06:32What if the crucifixion did happen, and what if it didn't?
06:37Maybe the question isn't about flesh and nails, but what about what needed to die?
06:42Maybe the cross isn't a place, it's a symbol.
06:45Not of sacrifice, but of surrender.
06:47Not of pain, but of perspective.
06:49Not of salvation, but of awakening.
06:51What dies on the cross is an illusion.
06:56Maybe Jesus wasn't here to be worshipped.
06:59Maybe he was trying to show us how to escape the dream.
07:03What if the real resurrection isn't about a body, but a consciousness?
07:07What if the point was never to follow a religion, but to remember what we already are?
07:11Why is it that our history is so heavily guarded, and not just Christian history, but all of it?
07:17Every religion has its gatekeepers.
07:19Every tradition has its voices that were erased.
07:22And even archaeology, even science, is shaped by who funds the dig, and who buries the evidence.
07:28Who agreed these gatekeepers get to tell us what is true and what isn't true?
07:33Did you vote on that?
07:34What we call Christianity today is just a version that has survived.
07:38But in the first few centuries, there wasn't one Christianity.
07:41There were many.
07:42Competing visions, competing gospels, competing truths.
07:45And what made it into the Bible had more to do with power than purity.
07:49And how do we know that the people who decided what belongs in the modern Bible
07:53had our best interests in mind, and not their own?
07:56And think about it.
07:57Back at that time, they never imagined that so many people would learn how to read.
08:03You just had to believe whatever they said.
08:05Now, I'm not here to tell you what to believe.
08:07I'm not taking sides.
08:09I'm just asking the questions most people were never told to ask.
08:13What you do with these questions are entirely up to you.
08:16I don't know what to make of the gospel of Barnabas.
08:18Maybe it's a forgery.
08:19Maybe it's a prophecy.
08:21But I know this.
08:22It makes me want to know more.
08:24Because if the one thing they tell you never to look at
08:27is oftentimes the one thing they fear that you'll see,
08:32that maybe that's exactly where we should be looking.
08:34What if Jesus wanted us to know more of his story, and more of God's story,
08:39and someone decided just to keep it from you?
08:42It seems kind of likely that may be the case.
08:45No knowledge is bad knowledge.
08:47It's only what you do with it.
08:48And I'm determined to look at all of it.
08:50Every buried text, every silence voice, every uncomfortable question.
08:54Let's keep going.
08:55And if you're feeling uncomfortable right now, good.
08:58That means you're still thinking for yourself.
09:00Because the people who benefit from your silence depend on your comfort.
09:04Maybe the greatest heresy isn't doubting a book.
09:07It's asking who wrote it and why.
09:10Maybe the truth isn't what we're told.
09:11Maybe the truth is what we're never allowed to ask.
09:15I don't know what to think myself.
09:17But ask yourself,
09:18why were you never allowed to read it or even know it exists?
09:22Who decides what version of truth you're permitted to see?
09:26And what else have they buried?
09:28Not because it was false,
09:29but because it conflicted with what they wanted you to believe.
09:33This is the maverick mind.
09:35And if this stirred something inside of you,
09:36don't look away.
09:37Ask better questions.
09:39And we've only just begun.
09:40And if they've hidden this gospel,
09:43along with others like Thomas, Mary, and Seth,
09:46what else do we not know about?
09:47Or what stories were lost,
09:49not by accident, but by design?
09:51What truths are still locked away,
09:53waiting to be remembered?
09:54Will you walk with me?
09:55Let's find out.