If God knew everything, why did God make Judas Iscariot born?

[Needy1]

So God knew everything, gave Judas a free will and knew what Judas will do with his free will, right?

Then why did God create Judas and let him born on the earth? Why would Christ say It’s better for Judas if he had not been born? Isn’t he the one who created Judas and let him born according to Christianity?

 

[Vico]

So God knew everything, gave Judas a free will and knew what Judas will do with his free will, right?

Then why did God create Judas and let him born on the earth? Why would Christ say It’s better for Judas if he had not been born? Isn’t he the one who created Judas and let him born according to Christianity?

There is no if. God is omniscient. So the question is simply why was Judas born. Jesus said why in the Gospel of John 17

11 And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are. 12 When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled.

Also for Judas it would have been better if Judas was not born, because then he would not exist so would not be guilty of the betrayal of Jesus. But somebody would have been born instead if it were not Judas.

 

[po18guy]

As well, Jesus said “And so the Son of man goes, as it is written of Him, but woe to that man by which he goes.”

Prophecy was made for a reason - as a slow unfolding of the Divine plan. Jesus took flesh to fulfill all prophecy. He willingly faced torture and death, out “obedience” to the Father, if you will, but also out of love of all mankind.

Those who helped fulfill prophecy, whether good or evil, received the reward or penalty for their acts. All were parts of that fulfillment.

 

[guanophore]

So God knew everything, gave Judas a free will and knew what Judas will do with his free will, right?

Yes

Then why did God create Judas and let him born on the earth?

Judas played an indispensable role in the mission of Jesus.

Why would Christ say It’s better for Judas if he had not been born? I

Because those who choose to separate themselves from their Creator experience His unfailing love as a fire of suffering.

Isn’t he the one who created Judas and let him born according to Christianity?

God creates a unique human soul for every human person who is born. “Letting” human beings do what they freely choose to do is part of what love means. Love sets free the object, so that the one who is loved can freely choose to love in return, or reject love.

 

[FOG]

why did God create Judas and let him born on the earth? Why would Christ say It’s better for Judas if he had not been born?

a. God let Judas be born for much the same reason he let the man be born blind, and Lazarus dying (see Gospel of John), which was to allow us to see the glory of God…and Judas, like the Blessed Virgin (and all off mankind) had free will allowing him to due what was righteous or what was evil.

b. In choosing to do evil, Judas’ salvation may have been jeopardized by his actions of evil, which would make it better for him that he had not been born.

But let’s circle back to the first premise…that Judas’ act would allow for the completion of Christ’s mission of salvation, so perhaps Judas was not the goat we think he was, perhaps he was a sheep…and, in Matthew’s Gospel, we find that Judas did repent (Matthew 27:3-5 - When Judas, his betrayer, saw that he was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, “I have sinned in betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” And throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed; and he went and hanged himself.)

Judas, like all of us, is not excluded from the mercy of God, regardless of our faults and misdeeds, remember that the only sin that cannot be forgiven is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit…and if Judas did repent, he may not have died with certain condemnation.