That God sent His only son, Jesus, to die for the sins of the world...the key words being 'whole world', not just a select few and not just Christians...
And that God planned and foresaw the need for the crucifixion so the world could know Him....
And that the situation and 'players' were essentially laid out in the path before Jesus so that this prophecy could come to fruition...
Which means that God was working through ALL those involved...Including the disciple Judas Iscariot...
Which means God foresaw and foreknew the anguish Judas would feel following his betrayal of Jesus to the soldiers (an intense anguish no one could know)...
Which means the suicide of Judas was foreseen as well by God...
And so, of course God's mercy will be on Judas in the after-life as a disciple and participant in the Greatest Story Ever Told...
And that suicide, while imminently terrible, could NOT POSSIBLY result in Judas' punishment in an 'eternal hell'.
Because that would mean God sets up people for failure - those people whom He allegedly loves.
And because God knows our innermost hearts and knows we have a limit to what we can bear as humans, the Judas-like anguish that is felt by those humans who take their own lives can only be looked upon with nothing but pity and love by God. The average person does not commit suicide to purposely anger God.
Suicide does not result in suffering in a fictional eternal hell.
Nothing does.
3 comments:
You really paint a world of a more tolerant christianity and less of a country club.
This is a religion I could almost abide by.... thanks for sharing so much of yourself with us, and I hope you can lead others to a path of enlightenment.
I hope with time your posts grow less angry, less adversarial, and more positive, for your sake as well as ours.
Thanks for putting yourself out there. I love to watch you grow.
Thanks, Collins - I try not to sound too adversarial and fighty. Angry? Yes. That's why I have this blog...to vent and observe but not to necessarily incite. Keep reading!
Thanks, Collins - I try not to sound too adversarial and fighty. Angry? Yes. That's why I have this blog...to vent and observe but not to necessarily incite. Keep reading!
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