Judas

Jennifer led our team reflection this morning. We looked at Judas asking the question ‘Was he responding to his calling when he betrayed Jesus?’ He was one of the disciples, was called to such by Jesus and without his actions Easter would have been very different.

If he was responding to a call by God to do what he did, we wondered what does that say about the nature of God and whether Judas is forgiven and redeemed. This led us on to think about the extent to genes and circumstances into which people are born can be so powerful that it explains why some people act criminally and if this in any way excuses them.

Going down such avenues ducks the issues of free will and personal accountability. We did not arrive at any conclusion here rather returned to the thought did Judas exercise his will or God’s will in his act of betrayal?