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1 | Why did Jesus encourage to betray? | John 13:27 | JCrichton | 145372 | ||
Hi, Doc! I understand your position... there are those who belief that if Judas would have searched Jesus out and asked for forgiveness, he would have found salvation... They forget that Peter just minutes before (or hours) had professed that he would never abandon Jesus, that he would follow Him to the death (John 13:36-38) and the others said as much (Mark 14:27-31)... at the end they all left Him! If the most fervent believers broke away when danger arose, how could a lukewarm believer open his heart and spirit to the Truth? In the Old Testament we hear about Israel's rebelliousness, how God used other nations to punish them... we also hear how God would punish these same nations for going to far in their mistreatment of Israel... also we hear how God welcomes these nations back into Him... God's Way is not our ways! Christ asked the Father to forgive those who would crucify Him... not just those who did the actual nailing... He spoke for all (inclusive of the high priest and the guard that would pierce Him after His death)... Did Judas know more than any of the above? Did he have some particular insight that revealed to him that he was betraying God? Was Judas' guilt greater than the high priest, the colective religious, the Roman soldiers that paraded, assualted, crucified Jesus? Yes, he was designated "the son of perdition," but does that mean that God has no power to redeem him? Does it mean that God destined one lowly human to betray his Master and then simply left him to his own abilities? If Christ had so much Mercy for those who took part in His crucifixion, could He not have some mercy for the one who could do nothing but betray Him? Could it not be that Jesus gave Judas his only way to redeem himself when He said that it would be better for the one who betrayed Him not to have been born? (Matthew 26:24) Ultimately, it is God only who knows to what end Judas came... so as the Archangel Michael, I will pass no judgment upon the evil committed by Judas, I will simply allow God to handle it! God Bless! Angel |
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2 | Why did Jesus encourage to betray? | John 13:27 | kalos | 145385 | ||
Betraying Christ and then committing suicide are not exactly evidences of genuine saving faith. Judas went to "his own place" (Acts 1:25). NASB Acts 1:25 "to occupy this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place." AMPLIFIED Acts 1:25 To take the place in this ministry and receive the position of an apostle, from which Judas fell away and went astray to go [where he belonged] to his own [proper] place. Matthew Henry "25. that he might go to his own place--A euphemistic or softened expression of the awful future of the traitor" (http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentaries/JamiesonFaussetBrown). "from which Judas by transgression fell, threw himself, by deserting and betraying his Master, from the place of an apostle, of which he was unworthy, that he might go to his own place, the place of a traitor, the fittest place for him, not only to the gibbet, but to hell—this was his own place. "Note, Those that betray Christ, as they fall from the dignity of relation to him, so they fall into all misery. It is said of Balaam (Num. 24:25) that he went to his own place, that is, says one of the rabbin, he went to hell. "Dr. Whitby quotes Ignatius saying, There is appointed to every man idios topos — a proper place, which imports the same with that of God’s rendering to every man according to his works. And our Saviour had said that Judas’s own place should be such that it had been better for him that he had never been born (Mt. 26:24)—his misery such as to be worse than not being. "Judas had been a hypocrite, and hell is the proper place of such; other sinners, as inmates, have their portion with them, Mt. 24:51. (http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentaries/MatthewHenryComplete/) |
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3 | Why did Jesus encourage to betray? | John 13:27 | JCrichton | 145435 | ||
Hi, kalos! You have missed the argument completely! Not one of the twelve showed any "genuine saving faith." Once Jesus stopped Peter from using violence as a deterrant to His arrest, fear blinded their minds and hearts and they all fled Jesus side (including the young man who was wearing nothing but a sheet and fled completely naked when he faced the danger of being held along with Jesus)... We can apply all of our hindsight and claim that we would have never left Jesus' side... that we would have had the valor and resolve to face His captors... but had we truly been there, which one of us would not have fear death, which one of us would not have denied Jesus, which one of us would have had the strength to fight God and refuse his commission to betray Jesus? We are so permissive and conforming that we seek to excuse almost every single behavior (suicide is OK; divorce is OK; abortion is our right; homosexuality is fine...) while still claiming to serve Christ... Judas did not have our advantage: he did not have our ability to chose to serve Jesus, our Lord and God! Further, I urge you to rethink God's Mercy and His ability to choose to be Merciful... He is not obliged to follow any prescribed formula... God is the Author of Love and Mercy! He is free to have mercy on whom He pleases! (Romans 9:15) God Bless! Angel God Bless! Angel |
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