Judas

This has been bothering me. What about Judas?

I sang a song in Choir that talked about 12 disciples, 11 of them singing in heaven.
Only 11?
Why?
Because Judas betrayed Jesus. Then he killed himself.

Judas is in Hell? I don't believe that.

God sent Jesus to die for our sins. God has a plan. Jesus was part of it. If that's what God wants to do, okay. But in order for Jesus to be crucified for us, someone had to kill him; someone had to betray him. If God sent Jesus to be killed. He must have made someone to kill him.

Why would He punish Judas for doing what he was meant to do? If Jesus being killed is part of the plan, so is the murderer. Whether you believe in fate or not, if God has a "plan", He must have some ability to poke at people.

How could anyone, even God, expect someone to do something, then let them be damned for all of eternity for doing it?...

Think it through... Do I have a point?
Take it a step further...

If God made us the hormone-filled, free-willed beings that we are... how can he expect saintly lives?
Why would he create us this way, then expect us to go against our nature, against His Will, to be what He has willed?Do you see this incongruity? He made us to be sinners. We are to sin. But he expects us to not. He wants us to go against the nature He has created. ... PAUSE ... I want to restate that. The Bible wants us to go against the Nature that the All Knowing, All Powerful God has created.

That book has passed through too many languages, too many powers, too many greedy sinners, for it to be the word of God for me. Let God's word be the word of God.

12 Disciples, 12 singing in Heaven.

~Aria