‘Jigsaw Puzzles’

In today’s society the internet is used by children who are researching information each and everyday. However, just because it is helpful does not mean that it is not dangerous from time to time.

Terrible people such as pedophiles have been known to single out children that are trying to speak to their friends in chat rooms.

Kids can find information on anything if they just click a few times on the internet. But, parents need to be very diligent in their willingness to help their children remain safe while they are on the internet.

Parents across the world need to address their concerns about Internet safety to their children as awareness helps in protecting your child against harmful effects of online pornography and violence.

There are a lot of times when most children are subjected to images on the internet on accident. Research has shown that access to such sites changes the entire value system of the child. It could turn your innocent child into a sex addict and lead to violent sexual behavior like rape and molestation.

Communicate to your child about the safety procedures to be followed while accessing the Internet and make them aware of the dangers and pitfalls of accessing pornographic sites.

One very effective way of making sure that your child is not looking at things that they should not be is to place the computer in a family area. This will help the parents keep an eye on the contents of the web page that is seen by the child.

Parents who cannot monitor their children’s access to the Internet on a continuous basis can take the help of porn blocking software. Once the software is installed on the computer, it monitors all the activities of the child. A porn blocker software will come in useful and will ensure additional protection.

All sites will be checked for pornographic or violent content and access will be denied to such sites. It will also ensure that certain key terms are not going to take a child where they should not be.

Parents can be assured that their child will not be tricked into visiting sites of pornographic nature, once they install the porn blocking software.

Did Jesus Ask Judas to Betray Him?

Was there ever a Gospel According to Judas? An ancient book found in an Egyptian cave could be just that–and have an explosive message for Christians.
About three decades ago, a 2,000-year-old mystery surfaced when a farmer looking for treasure in an Egyptian cave instead found a decaying leather-bound book, called a Codex, written in ancient Coptic. Not realizing what he had, he sold it to an antiquities dealer.
Five years after the Codex was found, a scholar named Stephen Emmel was asked to look at it, but under the condition he not photograph it or make any notes. He told ABC’s "Primetime" that he leafed through it and spotted a dialogue between Jesus and Judas and his disciples. "The name Judas came up again and again," he recalled. Then for 16 years it sat crumbling in, of all places, a safe-deposit box in a Long Island, N.Y., Citibank. In 2000 it was sold to former antiquities dealer Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos, who told "Primetime," "I think the circumstances of this manuscript coming to me were predestined. Judas was asking me to do something for him."
National Geographic and ABC News report scholars now think this is the long lost Gospel of Judas that was banned by the early church as blasphemous and ordered destroyed. Deciphering it was a monumental task since the 13 pieces of papyrus were in more than 1,000 pieces. Swiss restorer Florence Darbre and her partner painstakingly fit the tiny pieces together like an ancient jigsaw puzzle. Then Emmel and another scholar, Rodolphe Kasser, were called in to authenticate the text. "I’ve looked at hundreds of papyri, Coptic papyri, in my career, and this is absolutely typical of ancient Coptic manuscripts," Emmel told "Primetime." "I’m completely convinced." The final task was to use radio carbon-dating to authenticate it, which meant destroying tiny pieces of the precious document. The result? The text was written between the third and fourth century and is believed to be a copy of a much older document written in Greek in the second century.
What it has to say could shake Christianity to its core: The Bible says that Judas is the one who betrayed Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver, handing him over for crucifixion, an act that damned him for all time. But this Gospel of Judas tells it differently: Jesus asked Judas to betray him.
"Now, the Gospel of Judas also has Judas say to Jesus in fear and terror that he has a dream that the other disciples will hate him and will stone him to death, will attack him, Elaine Pagels, a professor at Princeton University and one of the world’s foremost experts on ancient religious texts, told "Primetime." "And Jesus says, ‘Yes, in fact, they will think that you are a terrible person because of what you did. This is part of the burden that you bear. But they will be wrong about that.’ So it is an extraordinary transformation of the ordinary understanding of Judas Iscariot."
What does it mean? Pagels says that it shows Judas’s betrayal of Jesus was not a reprehensible act or the act of a traitor. "It’s a secret mystery between him and Jesus."
Herbert Krosney, author of "The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot," goes even further. He calls Judas "the favored disciple of Jesus," adding, "He is the one whose star shines in the heavens and in the skies, and Judas, therefore, becomes unique. He is Jesus’s best friend rather than his betrayer."
Pagels admits there is no historical proof for the Gospel of Judas, just as there is no historical proof for the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. However, she is quick to say, "The Christian message is a message about faith and hope and, you know, the relationship between God and human beings. It’s not a matter of historical fact."
–From the Editors at Netscape