Judas #1

[history79]

"He betrayed the Son of God...that's not really something you can just wash away. He wakes up in Hell, feeling like he absolutely deserves to be there. But then Judas learns that he was preordained to betray Jesus. Jesus knew this the whole time and let it happen anyway. Judas then feels like Jesus betrayed him. Jesus basically sent His friend to Hell to glorify Himself, and that shatters Judas.

It's going to be very fun to flip the Biblical perspective and look at Jesus in an adversarial light. As Judas journeys through Hell, he'll make shaky alliances and learn more about the grand story he's a cog in. It's a really fun way to explore the ongoing debate of free will vs. determinism and how much of a say we really have in our lives."

- Jeff Loveness




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Comments

[alicemacher]

That's similar to the argument of Maimonides. He said that because God isn't timebound, what we experience as past, present and future is to God simply the present. So God knows everyone's choices because from the divine perspective, God is simply observing people making those choices as they make them--whether they make them in what humans experience as past, present, or future. That, Maimonides concludes, is how God knows our "future" choices "before" we make them, without God causing us to choose them.

[icon_uk]

I've always presumed that omniscience automatically encompasses all of time, otherwise I don't feel it's really "omni-" :)

One of my favourite summaries of free will (and, by inference, Heaven and Hell) is in Pratchett's short story Death and What Comes Next