(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?I've wondered that same exact thing for many years. We supposedly have free will but certain people have to do certain things at certain times for God's plan to unfold. Now I'm sure that Christians would have some arbitrary, ad hoc rationalization to solve this blatant contradiction just like when they say that God has a morally sufficient reason to allow the evil of the world but they can't tell you what it is. They have nowhere to hide. Either they accept reason and logic or they don't. It's only by the sheer ignorance of logic on the part of the general public that they get away with this fraud. Religionists have a vested interest in the dumbing down of society. It's the only way they survive. No wonder they are afraid of their kids going to college or surfing the web.
Exodus 9:12 gives us the biblical answer to your question.
"Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads."
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see."
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see."
