Judas Iscariot is most likely in Hell. What do you Think?

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Unfortunately, Judas Iscariot is most likely in Hell based on what I heard the saints mentioned and exorcism stories. Here is also a reference from sacred scripture as well.

And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love. 6 Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand. 7 When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin. 8 May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take. (Psalm 108:5-8 DRA)

Judas Iscariot’s days were few and St. Paul the apostle took his place.

Its unfortunate, because he didn’t truly repented before he died. He was trying to unburden him self from the world of his crime according to Catherine Emmerich. What do you think?
 
There was a thread in this recently. You’re going to get the same answers. Just do a search on the forum and you will get a vast array of viewpoints.
 
I think we don’t know whether he repented before death, and ruminating whether someone is in Hell strikes me as kind of ghoulish.
 
According to an exorcist story, there was a human demon named Judas Iscariot which does not look good.
 
We can hope for his repentance, but we also have to acknowledge the circumstances of his death. As far as we know, he committed suicide without repenting.

That is all we can know. Anything else is conjecture.
 
edjlopez23 said:
According to an exorcist story, there was a human demon named Judas Iscariot which does not look good.
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There are lots of stories floating around the internet. We don’t know, and we won’t know in this life.
 
According to Dante, Judas is one of three traitors – the others are Brutus and Cassius – who are discovered in the very lowest pit of Hell, where they are unceasingly chewed and flayed alive by Dis (Satan) in the form of a giant bat with six mouths:

Each mouth devoured a sinner clenched within,
Frayed by the fangs like flax beneath a brake;
Three at a time he tortured them for sin.

But all the bites the one in front might take
Were nothing to the claws that flayed his hide
And sometimes stripped his back to the last flake.

Inferno, canto 34, lines 55-60 (trans. Dorothy L. Sayers)
 
Dante isn’t a basis for any definitive proclamations. He was writing a story, not having visions. Every vision I’ve read, the person wasn’t allowed to identify any of the people in Hell. That is probably for the best.
 
Judas knew the scripture ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’. That scripture was meant to hold back people from taking revenge. If through someone’s fault your goat died, you don’t go to his place and kill 5 goats, you know, to ‘get even’, in your anger.

Jesus was an innocent man that got condemned to death. Judas, who was not an innocent man, fulfilled the eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth scripture, by hanging himself. I see it as repentance and sorrow for his actions for handing Christ over and his death. I don’t think he realized that Jesus was going to be dead within a day. The scribes and pharasees could have just said they want to talk to him and gave him some kind of benign story so that Judas would cooperate with their devious scheme.

When we have sorrow for our sins, we have the beautiful sacrament of reconciliation. None of us are innocent either.
 
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No such thing as a “human demon.” It’s one or the other.
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unless we are talking about a human posessed by a demon.

Does death automatically end a demonic posession or can such a posession continue in Hell?
 
When a human is possessed by a demon, the human is still a human, and the demon is still a demon.
 
I’m of the opinion of Ven. Bishop Fulton Sheen; the greatest tragedy of Judas is that he could have been St. Judas.
 
I think Jesus’ statements are conclusive.

Jesus outright tells us Judas is lost and even calls him the “son of perdition.” (John 17:12)

He also says it would have been better for Judas that he had not been born (Matt. 26:24). Even if you suffer the worst purgatory until the end of time, if you enter beatitude at the end it is better than non-existence. Heaven is never worse than non-existence. Hell is.
 
Since we don’t know for a fact and that the Catholic Church doesn’t teach that Judas is in hell, I guess it doesn’t hurt to hope he is in purgatory or in heaven. But all the stories I heard doesn’t make it look good.
 
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I’m of the same opinion about Judas Iscariot. Jesus said it would have been better if Judas had never been born. (See Matthew 26:24) That is not the sort of thing said of someone who is heaven-bound.
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Judas Iscariot’s days were few and St. Paul the apostle took his place.
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Actually, it was Matthias who took Judas’ place as an apostle. (See Acts 1:12-26)
 
Ok, so Matthias took his place and St.Paul was added to the apostles?
 
If he is, what could we possibly do to stop it? If he isn’t, and is maybe, instead in purgatory, should we not pray for him? And even if he isn’t in purgatory, would not that prayer work for someone else?
 
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