He's seen as the church's most hated figure and has even become a household name for being "nasty" or for betraying someone...but surely if it hadn't been for Judas, Jesus would not have died, as was God's plan (?). So therefore, wasn't it Judas' pre-destined path to be deceitful and betray Judas? And in that case, was he really that bad, or just a necessary pawn?
2006-10-17 02:26:26 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think that if he hadn't betrayed Jesus, someone else would have. We might even consider the role that Judas played as an insignificant one, Jesus was persecuted by many, in my opinion the betrayal of Judas just shows the typical human nature and actually glorifies Jesus in the sense tha no matter how bad the odds were stacked against Him, He still managed to fulfill His destiny on earth...
2006-10-17 02:37:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I asked that question myself a while back. Unless we accept that God and Plans don't necessarily go together terribly well, I reckon Judas wasn't so much a pawn as a vital player in the game. I think if Christianity hadn't NEEDED an enemy to explain why Christ wasn't still alive and reigning, Judas would have been venerated as at least a saint and possibly more, as Jesus' most trusted disciple. But the early church had no other answer for why it didn't rule the world other than "Satan deceived one of the disciples, who betrayed the Lord". Hence the bad rap that Judas - and Satan too actually, who was never that powerful in the Hebrew tradition - have had for the last two millenia or thereabouts.
Just as a thought - imagine what would have happened if the Gnostic view of Judas had won out - you'd have had a HUMAN trinity of God - Mary who brought God to the world, Jesus who took God among the people, and Judas who fulfilled God's plan despite the pain it caused him.
What would our world look like now if that idea had been allowed to develop, do you think?
2006-10-17 02:41:40 · answer #2 · answered by mdfalco71 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's assuming that it become God's plan for this all to ensue. Jesus got here first and maximum amazing to coach and share God's love with human beings. human beings ought to settle for or reject those teachings. And after that, they could act in all styles of techniques. God has a fashion of "making issues artwork," yet whilst God had a grasp plan, would not all of us be greater like puppets than unfastened-questioning human beings who've a unfastened will? i've got heard some speculate that he become attempting to "rigidity Jesus' hand" and make him carry out some huge miracle that should bypass away little doubt as to his id and place. or maybe Judas become finding for a Messiah who could unfastened the Jews from Rome, which Jesus become maximum by utilising no ability interested in doing, not interior the way human beings needed. in my opinion, i think of Judas become doing the appropriate that he ought to. i'm not saying he did top by utilising betraying Jesus, yet i think of he become probable overwelmed by utilising the political and militia concerns of the time.
2016-11-23 15:47:58 · answer #3 · answered by jarvie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I so do agree. I think that he was a pawn, and think of the last supper when Jesus said,"One of you will betray me", he was talking about Judas. It often makes me wonder what happpened to his soul
2006-10-17 02:35:56 · answer #4 · answered by danicolegirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Judas' actions were indeed part of God's plan.
2006-10-17 02:36:58 · answer #5 · answered by Char 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Judas could have repented, instead of killing himself.
2006-10-17 15:49:43 · answer #6 · answered by todaywiserthanyesterday 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, just like everyone else he had free will to do evil or to do good, he chose evil.
2006-10-17 02:34:26 · answer #7 · answered by CM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋