(February 16, 2023 at 10:12 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Judas is proverbially a bad guy of the NT, so what would have happened if he didn't betray Jesus? Would Jesus' mission be a (bigger) success or would it be a failure?
Judas is necessary to the narrative because otherwise it reads "And then Roman soldiers nabbed him and tacked him up." Clearly that was a major problem for the early Roman church, so they concocted some convenient excuses like Judas and the trial at the Sanhedrin to insulate themselves from what their own troops and politicians had done. Or what they had done according to the early Christian mythos. They make no sense whatsoever once you think about them but that's never been the strong point of the faithful. Blaming the Jews was easy and that little blood libel has cost a lot of lives down through the ages.