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Gospel of Bartholomew The Apostle 1
The Gospel of Bartholomew, also known as Questions of Bartholomew is one of two remaining gospels of Bartholomew, one of the 12 apostles found in canonical Christian scriptures. Being originally collected in a selection of New Testament apocrypha, or selections of writing that do not have agreed upon origin or canonical status. Similar to other gospels that are not found within Christian bibles like St. John The Divine’s Apocalypse, The Gospel of Bartholomew describes actions and portrays supernatural characters of biblical mention in particular focus. For Bartholomew, this book followed his former gospel, The Gospel of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ by Bartholomew the Apostle, where the titular Jesus met his titular resurrection. This gospel decides to focus on the time Bartholomew held an inquisition to Jesus, and consequently the Devil (Satan), Hades, and Beliar, figures of a hellish afterlife. As an ancient text, the remnants of these manuscripts in Slavonic, Greek, and Latin represent a well cared for and preserved background for these texts. Whether it is that these scripts are acclaimed for being hysteric and novel at the time or were used as Christian knowledge is not known. Modern iterations can be located easily through digitizations made by the Oxford Press and the Gnosis Society.
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Gospel of Bartholomew The Apostle 2
Chapter 2 is the remnant beginnings of Bartholomew’s gospel. The 2nd chapter of the gospel sees the apostles ask how Mary could have conceived while claiming to be a virgin, what Bartholomew describes as an incomprehensible act, despite reportedly similarly experiencing miracles of Jesus. Mary responds by stating, “If I should begin to tell you, fire will issue forth out of my mouth and consume all the world” (Bartholomew 2:14), entering prayer after. To please the apostles, she requests them to assist in maintaining herself as she openly summons the heavens and who is presumed to be God. Bartholomew swiftly dies. God resurrects him. Mary speaks of the heavens as the aforementioned fire torments the earth until Jesus appears afore them. Chapter 3, presented as the questions of Bartholomew can be summarized quickly, Jesus takes the apostles out into a land called Cherubim, where the entirety of understanding and history of the divine is shown to the apostles. Bartholomew among the rest of the apostles fall face into the earth again and die to be once again resurrected.
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Gospel of Bartholomew The Apostle 3
Chapter 4 takes place on the Mount of Olives, Jesus and the apostles find themselves in conversation of the intricacies of the curiosities they had. Bartholomew takes his focus on understanding Satan, to which Jesus obliges and commands The Archangel to raise Beliar from the depths of hell, where we receive a particularly descriptive level of the scale and presentation of this vision of Satan. Listed as being hoisted up by any realm of 500-6000 angels, bound by chain, 40 cubits, or around 60 feet in breadth yet some 2400 feet tall. Being stated as having a thundery face yet a descriptive enough nose to record a plume of smoke emitted by it. The apostles consequently die again and fall face into the earth. The apostles are once again risen by Jesus in order to maintain Bartholomew’s wish to interrogate Satan. With some clear symbolic meaning, Jesus tells Bartholomew to trample upon the devil’s neck to have him reveal the truths he so desired. We are led to assume that Satan has been completely captured by God, and has no power over any means, as Satan states that God would punish any falsifications in testimony with peril. Bartholomew hears a description of Satan’s creation first before Michael, the Archangel. Named Satanael, once denying holy nature, Satan’s domain was dropped to hell, or Tartarus where he became known as Satanas. Following a lineological style explanation of the creation of head angels, there appears to be a brief description of more pagan beliefs, where angels take rule over aspects of nature. They are as follows: Chairoum, an angel of wind; Oertha, angel of the north; Koukertha, angel of the earth and foliage; Naoutha, angel of snow; Mermeoth, angel of hail; and an unnamed angel of seas. There is a brief description of sins such as suicide or gluttony by means of enticed means of collecting souls, akin to fishermen. Beliar retells that the angels of nature are just as influenced by him as the men on earth enticing drunkenness or immorality. At the understanding of how Satan achieves his collection of the condemned, Bartholomew commands Satan, called a dragon, to be muzzled temporarily for a quick meditation to his lord. Verse 53 begins by introducing the story of how Satan was cast down to Tartarus as well as the creation of man itself. Where Michael found glory and exult in the flesh of man as in the image of God, The Devil saw this distinction and refused to worship what could be seen as inferior flesh to the firstborn of angels. Him and 600 demons were cast to hell in the first hierarchical uprising. Unique to any scripture, Bartholomew lists Salapsan as the son of Satan, a direct descendant. They confer on how to seek revenge upon man for their expulsion. Eve is stated to have drunk Beliar’s which caused her to be deceived and to understand good and evil. At last, Bartholomew had exhausted his questions for Satan, where he returned to Jesus in order to ask whether he can share this knowledge, which we also see in this gospel. The apostles all kiss Jesus. Chapter 5: The last chapter revolves upon questions for Jesus on sins, where hypocrisy and backbiting is written to be the greatest sin. “And Bartholomew worshiped him with the apostles, and glorified god [sic] earnestly, saying: Glory be to thee, Holy Father, Sun unquenchable, incomprehensible, full of light. Unto thee be glory, unto thee honour and adoration, world without end. Amen.” (further use of “god” will follow original formatting) The gospel is overarchingly incongruent with canonical texts, especially in describing the many characters and events that would be heretical to large parts of the church. This led to a complete banning from canons, and inclusions in antilegomena, most notably in the Luther era of reformation where the catholic stance on canon law was updated in Luther’s own antilegomena, excluding what remained in catholic apocrypha as secondary canon.
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inbetween I’m not going to tell you everything you need to do in life, just let me tell you what you must not; you owe the world androgyny; talk to the family you hide yourself from, acceptance is earned by compliance; you don’t exist, just categorize yourself as a woman; corrupt the pronouns I’m already used to, make an English major cry; god made you one gender, be comfortable in the natural masculinity we made for you; open your phone, you’re obsessed aren’t you?; cry over words, you’re no man; you were born to be one; talk back, keep your angst and anger for what you think’s wronging you, you’re no woman; you were born to be one; it’s that damn phone that stole your mother’s child; get yelled at for opening Twitter, your dad would never call it X; that’s what we named you, that’s your name; get called a slur on your first post, bitch online- you’re a snowflake, bitch aloud- you gossip. Drive your Subaru to work, isn’t it your last week?; queers can’t hold jobs; apply to the other cafe around the corner on your last break, who else would hire someone who looks like you?; take that same car back home, pass five straight couples and dream about being cis and heterosexual, have you tried conversion therapy?; cut through the parking lot of your favourite tattoo shop, wave, you know everyone in there, patron and staff; blast nu metal and new wave before you walk in the house; hear your deadname revived, what once was a biblical miracle is your daily occurrence; redo a vibrant box dye on the hair fought tooth and nail for; walk out to a disapproving council; get counseled, this is for attention, your act of rebellion, no?; hide up in your room, take your pills, your injections, your patches and gels; yes, suppress sex hormones and replace them, that never will change who you really are, who are you to know about yourself?; don’t dare tell them that the hormone replacement you take is just alike the birth control men made for you, the steroids they pump for their own identity issues; your father’s Facebook complains about gender affirming care; here’s how to mutilate your genitals; this is how to put makeup on a man, but it won’t fool me, we can always tell; learn how they cut off their chests; look at the next victim, are they a student, are they your age?; watch him repost an attack on a local teacher, is your profession safe?; keep your mind off of them sexualizing and fetishizing your being, it’s your fault for being one, won’t you find it selfish to be seen by them as more than a pornographic category?; listen to your parents, hither to their call; let them resurrect again; that is not my name; you best see yourself out for the night, you won’t be welcome back.
Gospel of Bartholomew The Apostle 4
By length and content potency, the comprehensive text largely originates in the second chapter, the majority of scripture in need of analysis is beyond this. Within the notable text, Bartholomew takes particular care in mentioning that John is a virgin, as he was commanded to hold Mary’s breasts as she retells her story of immaculate conception. This similarly shows the more overt notion that the apostles seemed to doubt miracles that ignore smaller facts of the world as they would commonly see it. We see this paralleled with the fact that they are resurrected twice, or thrice in the case of Bartholomew, however parthenogenesis was out of their comprehension and limits of believability. Mary requests that the apostles tell no one about the circumstances she states, while purportedly breathing fire, lest she dies. As the date of this passage’s origin is unknown, it is speculation as to whether this record would have gone against this wish, or whether Mary was even alive at this time. It is worth noting that the apostles die, or “became as dead” a considerable amount of times in this single book. Many of the apostles would be later slain in methods much more plain to see no further resurrection. In that regard, their deaths after seeing the divine could be portrayed as figurative, to varying degrees of harm to other Christian understandings. A brief mention in chapter 4 relates mentions that are found in Genesis of the water canopy being lost during original sin, interlinked by the description of clouds as the muddying of the skies caused by “defiling the commandment”. This idea also elicits the possibility of the belief of the moon being a luminary, emitting light itself (lit. “Therefore was the moon stained with clay and her light is not bright”). The interchangeability seen between terms referring to Satan is unused in modern biblical canon, nor is the mention of angelic names, as many can be seen as encroaching divinity, therefore the mention of Satanael and Satanas, or even Belial as terms referring to the Devil are typically omitted or avoided, much more preferably for Lucifer or Satan. Satan claims to be the first angel created by God, which is still a commonly disputed claim despite being made clear in both canon and apocryphal texts, as is noted here. Contrary to the canon, this statement from Satan leaves the presumption that the fall to Tartarus is caused due to his unwillingness to worship a being that is knowingly less powerful than God, in addition to his own being. This paints this deity that is otherwise described as an embodiment of all evil as a much more understandable character, as these beliefs are not unfounded within modern religious practices. If the worship of God must come first, how must mankind be worshiped as a god, let alone worshiped by the firstly created angel above all else? Satan describes getting sweat from his bosom and armpit hairs, which are said to have caused Eve’s deception. The last chapter is much less similar to the rest of this book, which has raised questions (largely in gnostic sectors) due to its origin as connection to the original text, if by author or by time written. Despite the questionability of source, this chapter stands as an interesting talking point. Jesus claims in verse 2 that hypocrisy and backbiting are the most gross and heavy sins, yet not past redemption. Above what 10 commandments and the many ordinary sins, being hypocritical takes the highest accord. As well, in the subsequent verses, Jesus returns a stance on marriage after Bartholomew inquires, 2 times is okay, but 3 is wholly unworthy of God. As comparison, Bartholomew was likely somewhere around a height of 5 foot 3 inches. When stacked, around 450 Bartholomews could be likened to the purported height of Satan.