Past shows a Christian diversity.(Religion)

Byline: THE REV. RANDY HAMMER

I often watch "Cold Case Files." It's a television show about detectives who pull dusty case files from the shelf of some warehouse and solve them through state-of-the-art forensic science and keen investigative work.

Similarly, biblical detectives have reopened the cold case against one Judas Iscariot, prompted by the Gospel of Judas, which was discovered in Egypt in 1978 and spotlighted this spring in a National Geographic special.

Instead of being the worst of the disciples, this Gnostic Gospel portrays him as the best of the bunch who was handpicked to help Jesus with the divine mission of being condemned to die on …