zionmade:
Judas was not DESTINED BY GOD TO BETRAY JESUS.
Judas wasnt afraid to steal from Jesus and dat opened him to be used by d devil.
There was no prophesy about betrayal of Jesus until Jesus said so. And Jesus made his first statement about Judas wen he acknowledged dat Judas was a thief before he prophesied dat judas would betray him.
Assuming something bad has to happen to an evil man, God would never use a righteous man to execute it, he would make another evil man a vessel to d devil to carry out his plans.
Dat is why we shouldn't make ourselves available for devil to use

femi4:
Support your claims with scriptures.

You are the one who don't understand how God operates.

The harlot by faith walked into the Prophecy. She wasn't in the original plan.

Heb 11:31
By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.

Apple1992:
Its funny when i heard people curse and blame Judas Iscariot, for betraying Jesus christ.

Though am not very good when it comes to scriptural reasoning.

But from what i heard and read from the bible, i believed it was the fulfilment of prophecy.

Remember the bible says, heaven and earth shall pass away , but no iota of my word shall pass way.

So whatever happen i believe, it was designed by God.

So my point now is , i don't think its right blaming Judas, its the fulfilment of prophecy!

TosineGuy:

u are the confused one here bro. Mix them together, u will find out dat He hanged himself on d land he bought solves the whole thing. Ask yourself, why didn't peter kill himself?

doctor306:
If u believed DAT Judas was destined to betray Jesus then hope you also believed that God knows were we would ho after our death if heaven or hell but my question is since he knows why did he create some of us when he no we wount make heaven
He knows things before they happen then why was Adam and eve punished for disobeying him when he could have averted the whole situation before their creation

judedwriter:


God knows everything from the end to the beginning. For example, Enoch prophesied the coming of Jesus even before the birth of Noah! God knew that Judas would intentionally betray Jesus from the beginning.

Jesus actually gave Judas a chance to repent, when He told His disciples that one of them would betray Him. But he didn't. Even after betraying Jesus, Judas didn't seek for mercy-he hanged himself!

judedwriter:


God knows everything from the end to the beginning. For example, Enoch prophesied the coming of Jesus even before the birth of Noah! God knew that Judas would intentionally betray Jesus from the beginning.

Jesus actually gave Judas a chance to repent, when He told His disciples that one of them would betray Him. But he didn't. Even after betraying Jesus, Judas didn't seek for mercy-he hanged himself!

FatGuy:
The Bible says "The Son of Man shall be killed just as it is written, but woe to him by whom the Son of Man is killed". No one destined Judas Iscariot to be the betrayer of Jesus, he allowed himself to be used.

walls01:


because he created man to have free will to choose. if he had force man to not eat the fruit that free will he gave man would have been void

Apple1992:
Its funny when i heard people curse and blame Judas Iscariot, for betraying Jesus christ.

Though am not very good when it comes to scriptural reasoning.

But from what i heard and read from the bible, i believed it was the fulfilment of prophecy.

Remember the bible says, heaven and earth shall pass away , but no iota of my word shall pass way.

So whatever happen i believe, it was designed by God.

So my point now is , i don't think its right blaming Judas, its the fulfilment of prophecy!

Boleyndynasty2:
He let his greed get the better part of him. If anyone actually used him, then its the devil. I wasn't disappointed

bezimo:
Do you know that Peter was the person initially satan planned to use but Jesus prayed for him, but Judas was the scape goat used in place of peterto fulfill Jesus devine mission.

Some reflecting thoughts.

If Judas didn't betray Jesus, He won't have died
If he didn't die, then the world won't be saved.

But woe to the person that betrays his Lord and Master Jesus Christ.

Totfulguy:



What you need to understand is that God is Almighty, and He is the only Authority that has the capacity to tell the future (if He so intends). The capacity to foretell the future does not lay responsibility on God for the actions taken by the parties the event, just because he CAN foresee the future. Those two do not connect. Any more than you can say that a parent who warns his child of the consequences for his action, is responsible if it comes to pass as the parent foresaw. To illustrate, if a child DECIDES to climb a chair and a table and run on top of these, and an experienced parent warns the child of the consequences of such maneuvers. If the child continues he may see the consequences that the parent predicted. This does not put the blame on the parent. Unlike God, humans do no have the capacity see in details, what is to come. But God does. He can foretell (Not Predict) in full detail. God does however, influence the actions of the participants. They are responsible for their action. (Galatians 6:7).

The Destiny Argument:

To argue that God somehow predetermines the course of a person's is to say that, God is cruel, cold and evil. Or how else would you describe a God who had predetermined the cause of life of all of us and then turns round to punish us for playing out his script? In that case, Abubakar Shekau and is not responsible for the bloodshed, Nigerian politician were also destined to still among other prepaid (predetermined life courses). But far be it from God to be evil, cold or cruel. God has given us the capacity to choose and the freedom to do so. We are not robotic replicas off a mold created by God. We are therefore responsible for our actions and are accountable for the consequences thereoff. God would not have had any justification to punish Judas if he had predetermined his life-course. Judas IS RESPONSIBLE for his actions. HE BETRAYED Jesus out of his own selfish desire. The Bible puts it succinctly at James 1: 13-15. I hope this clarifies the seeming confusion as to Judas' culpability in connection with Jesus death.

Goodnuel:
I mean, befire we were born, God(Christ)knows/knew us.. What we are, what we would be.. So he said to Jeremiah.. And u also stated that Jesus acknowledged Judas to be a thief.

An2elect2:
Then we shouldn't credit Christ for securing our salvation since it was a prophecy too?

Trina0936:

You are 1000% right. Greed was his downfall and orchestrated by the devil himself.
Instead of seeking forgiveness, he took his own life(another sin apart from betrayal).
BTW

All this atheists when they have bad dreams and wake up,they all scream 'Jesus' or ' God' but says He doesn't exist! Bunch of clowns

Marvel1206:
Jack.sparr0w127 Since you are silent, do you now agree with me?

Jacksparr0w127:
lol. I'm just trying to get some facts before I reply

I'll come back with biblical facts

yemimajid:
But god already knows he won't take the chance to repent, he won't seek mercy, and he would hang himself, so??

ziga:


If God already knew that Judas would intentionally betray Jesus, what was the point of Jesus giving Judas the chance to repent.

Judas never really had a chance it seems.

And If Jesus died for our sins, we should be grateful to Judas for doing what all the other 11 disciples couldn't do... for the salvation of mankind.

An2elect2:
God foreknows because He predetermined. How else would God know a thing before hand if it was not His doing

zionmade:

We knew d background of various disciples before they began following Jesus. But dat of Judas wasnt recorded. Even if Judas was a former thief he must have repented like Matthew before opting to follow Jesus.
Jesus acknowledged dat Judas stole from d treasury wen Judas made d sell d oil and give d poor statement

Marvel1206:

haha. I don turn you to pastor beyen

Goodnuel:
So like us, Christ didn't know a thing about Judas but went ahead to make him an apostle??

And how could he have repented when Christ hasn't died yet??, the part of repentance was supposed to be open after the death of Christ.