A homily from the Gospel of Judas:
It’s ok that Judas betrayed Jesus, because he was helping in God’s plan for salvation.
And all my sins, past and present, are ok, because they brought me to where I am today and made me who I am, who I need to be, to fulfill God’s plan for me.
And all your sins, even the ones that hurt me, are ok, because you’re just fulfilling God’s plan for you.
In fact, you really don’t have any control over your life at all. Just do whatever, because God will manipulate whatever you do to fit His divine purposes.
Reality check: this makes no sense.
I spent years trying to prove Catholicism was WRONG. Once I started to test to see if it was RIGHT, I couldn’t get it to flunk. Of course, you have to follow an argument logically – you can’t jump into the middle of an issue like capital punishment and expect to find understanding. You could begin with capital punishment, but you’d have to work the logic backwards. It would take some time and patience. Or I suppose you could just read Thomas Aquinas who did much of that footwork for us.
But back to the Gospel of Judas. From a personal standpoint, everything sounds great. It’s OK if I commit adultery. God must have wanted me to have a relationship with this person or He wouldn’t have put him in my life. It’s OK if YOU commit adultery. It’s none of my business. But…is it OK if my husband commits adultery? If my marriage is the victim, could I be so happy to let God’s will be done? Of course not.
So, out goes Judas’ Gospel. It doesn’t make sense…not in a baffling God’s-mysterious-ways kind of way, but in a practical, everyday sort of way. “Treat others the way you want to be treated” – that works. “It’s OK to sin because it’s God’s will” – that doesn’t.
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Thanks for the posting.Judas appears as a sinister character before the betrayal. He wanted to sell the spikenard ointment to raise money for his own purposes.For those who see the betrayal as a part of the higher plan, it is not used as a justification to misbehave. That type of interpretation misses the point. It is a generalization of a specific role and action. Such generalization typically leads one astray.
But it doesn’t make sense that there would be a specific role or action that would be exempt from God’s Law. The Law is the Law. To make an exception for Judas’ behavior as part of a Divine plan negates the Law entirely.The VBS cheer goes: God is good – ALL the time. Gnosticism says that God also created evil. If God created evil, then it’s part of His plan and is, in a warped way, good. But Christianity rejects the idea that God created evil. God makes good things come out of the evil done by man, but He wouldn’t make man do evil in order for the good things to happen.There were other occasions where an attempt was made to seize Jesus, but he passed through the crowds. If it hadn’t been Judas, there would have been another.And yes, things look pretty grim in John’s Gospel for Judas who was stealing from Jesus and the apostles. Yes, the point is to show Judas as a sinner already, not a really good fellow who was forced by Divine Will to do something evil in order to bring about the salvation of all mankind.