Editing Gospel of Barnabas (section)

=== Christian ===
The Gospel of Barnabas was not accepted by Christians,<ref name="true" /> who consider it inferior to the four canonical gospels and a forgery.<ref name="de" /><ref name="answer" />{{rp|307}} According to Togardo Siburian of the {{ill|lt=Bandung Theological Seminary|Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Bandung|id}}, it is often used "by [Muslim] propagandists in a guerrilla manner to prey on Christians with weak theological commitments. This is what is said to be the efficacy of the book, as new material for the stealth 'Islamization' or ‘Judaisation’ of Christian churches today."<ref name="profile">{{Cite journal |url=http://sttb.ac.id/download/stulos/stulos-v19-no02/09-Profil-Kritis-Buku-Injil-Barnabas.pdf |title=Profil Kritis Buku yang Disebut 'Injil Barnabas' |last=Siburian |first=Togardo |date=July 2021 |journal=Stulos |pages=248–272 |issn=1858-4683 |language=id |trans-title=A Critical Profile of a Book Known as the 'Gospel of Barnabas' |volume=19 |issue=2 |access-date=2022-05-24 |archive-date=2022-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527120942/http://sttb.ac.id/download/stulos/stulos-v19-no02/09-Profil-Kritis-Buku-Injil-Barnabas.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Jan Joosten (biblical scholar)|Jan Joosten]] called it a "[[Hotchpot|hotchpotch]] of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim materials".<ref name="date" /> J. N. J. Kritzinger wrote for ''Religion in Southern Africa'' that the gospel is an obstacle to Christian–Muslim [[interfaith dialogue]], and neither side should use it to discredit the other's religion.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24763798 |title=A Critical Study of the Gospel of Barnabas |date=January 1980 |issue=1 |volume=1 |last=Kritzinger |first=J. N. J. |jstor=24763798 |journal=Religion in South Africa |pages=49–65 }}</ref> Christian theologian [[Norman Geisler]] criticised Muslims who use it to validate their arguments:

<blockquote>It is not surprising that Muslim apologists appeal to the Gospel of Barnabas in that it supports a central Islamist teaching in contrast to the New Testament. It claims that Jesus did not die on the cross&nbsp;[...] Rather, it argues that Judas Iscariot died in Jesus' stead&nbsp;[...] having been substituted for him at the last minute. This view has been adopted by many Muslims, since the vast majority of them believe that someone else was substituted on the cross for Jesus.<ref name="answer" />{{rp|296}}</blockquote>

Jan Slomp wrote that it was difficult to understand the absence of mentions of the gospel in early Islamic writings if it had existed since antiquity,<ref name="Sox" />{{rp|19}} a view shared by A. H. Mathias Zahniser in his ''The Mission and Death of Jesus in Islam and Christianity'' (2017).<ref name="Wipf" />{{rp|93–94}} Slomp called it a "conscious attempt at imitating a ''[[Diatessaron]]''".<ref name="Sox" /><sup>:35</sup> Egyptian [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] philosopher {{ill|lt=Georges Chehata Anawati|جورج قنواتى|arz}} wrote for the 1971 ''[[Encyclopaedia of Islam]]'', "The appearance of a forgery entitled the Gospel of Barnabas put into the hands of the Muslim polemicists&nbsp;[...] a new weapon whose effects on the ordinary public, and even on some insufficiently informed members of universities are felt even today."<ref name="Sox" />{{rp|32}} A critical book, William F. Campbell's ''The Gospel of Barnabas: Its True Value'', was published in 1989.<ref name="value" />