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1 | Judas went to hell? | NT general Archive 1 | stjones | 28589 | ||
Hi, Radioman; There are people who grow up believing that the Bible says God helps those who help themselves. ;-) Don't you suppose that if God wanted us to know Judas' fate he would have revealed it in unequivocal language? Instead the Bible says (1) it was Satan acting in Judas and (2) Judas repented (or felt remorse, depending on the translation). This is the message of the plain text. There is no passage anywhere in the Bible that says with similar clarity "Judas was condemned" or "Judas didn't really repent" or "Judas went to hell". I appeal to everyone weighing in on this question to consider Augustine's admonition "In Essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all things, love." If knowledge of Judas' fate were essential in God's eyes, I am confident that he would have come right out and said it through one of the NT writers. There is room for sincere Christians who study and believe the Bible to disagree on this. There is no point in choosing up sides and beating each other up or insulting one another over this. Peace and grace, Steve aka Indiana Jones |
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2 | Judas went to hell? | NT general Archive 1 | Radioman | 28594 | ||
Matthew Henry 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. "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 | Judas went to hell? | NT general Archive 1 | stjones | 28599 | ||
And again; I wrongfully accused Nolan of trying to "bludgeon" me into submission. Are you trying to spam me into submission? ;-) Peace and grace, Steve aka Indiana Jones |
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