Jebus was the name of Jerusalem before it was captured by King David, Jesus is the anglicized pronunciation of "Ieyesus", the greek pronunciation of the Hebrew "Ieyehoshua"...
now that we have all that out of the way.
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Originally Posted by swa(y)
yeah, its kinda wierd.
i used to think the whole situation involving judas was really weird. like, what if Judas wouldnt have betrayed Jesus, maybe it woulda been (if only slightly) possible Jesus wouldnt have died for man's sins. but, Judas, as a character, is still often frowned apon.
strange stuff.
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interesting thing about Judas, I have always thought of him not as a betrayer, though the text does say he was a cheat and a thief of the coffer, but aside from that, I feel that Judas truly believed in Jesus as the messiah. The apostles were an anti-roman, maccabean revival, and while Jesus himself was not directly opposed to any particular world government at the time, his followers surely were a bunch of rebels and revolutionaries, awaiting the opportunity to strike against Rome and liberate palestine. For Judas, IF he believed that Jesus was the Messiah, that he was God Incarnate, and in particular, believed in the Resurrection, which Christ and the essenes promoted unceasingly, than he was never killing Jesus at all.
I personally think that Judas' crime was impatience, he thought that if he sold out Jesus, than it would spark the Revolution. I believe that Judas never believed that Jesus would be crucified at all, but rathet thought that the altercation in the Garden would spark off the revolution. Perhaps he thought that the confrontation would force Jesus' hand, and bring about the radical change that they all desired. and, after he realized that it was not, and that Jesus was crucified, and the revolution was coming later, he killed himself in dispair and desperation.
At the very least, the text makes it clear that Satan had entered into Judas, AFTER eating the piece of bread cursed by Jesus. An interesting opposite to the concept of the Eucharist, which is a blessed piece of bread which allows the Holy Spirit to enter the body of the person after eating, and with Judas, Satan only enters Judas after eating the bread from Christ's hand.
I'd say he is much off the hook either way