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Rick Buford wrote:
I'm actually not trying to start a fight on this one, but if it was part
of the "plan" for Judas to turncoat on Jesus, then it's a fair guess
that the expected penalty would be death.
From this paragraph:
The account goes on to relate that Jesus refers to the other disciples,
telling Judas "you will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the
man that clothes me." By that, scholars familiar with Gnostic thinking
said, Jesus meant that by helping him get rid of his physical flesh,
Judas will act to liberate the true spiritual self or divine being
within Jesus.
However, I question the need for Jesus to have help in ridding himself
of the physical. Couldn't he just as easily starved himself to death?
This is smacking pretty hard of one of the plot premises behind the
movie Dogma...
The Bible clearly teaches that those who sacrificed Jesus were
performing God's will, e.g. Acts 4:27-28:
Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the
people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant
Jesus, whom you anointed. They did what your power and will had decided
beforehand should happen.
But the Bible also clearly teaches that just because such actions are
the will of God, this does not excuse the wicked intentions, e.g. Romans
9:19-24:
One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who
resists his will?" But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall
what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like
this?' "Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump
of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?
What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore
with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?
What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects
of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory—even us, whom he
also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
--
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
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