Yeah, I agree with ya on that one as well Sherman . . . it’s such a tough thing for us to do once it’s been engrained in us how we’re supposed to read the Bible, but for me, the truth is, the rules change the moment we move from natural to spiritual. In the natural, everything is based on logic and reason . . .as it should be . . .but in the spirit, it becomes like the quantum, things that “should” add up, don’t. And just by observing, we affect the process of the very things we can’t see. In the spiritual realm, the least becomes the greatest. Things that we give least attention to are the very things that activate illumination. In the natural, everything is confined to knowledge. The balances of what is good and what isn’t. What is white, what is black. Who is right, who is wrong. But in the Spirit, nothing is based on knowledge, everything is based on faith. Faith is seeing things that aren’t visible by natural means.
I tell it to people this way . . .In “this” realm, my mind is in “operation”. but when I move into the spiritual realm, “I” need to submit my mind from that of operation, to become one of “observation”. My mind can only “observe” what has already been done. It’s my “spirit” that goes into operating in that finished state. All my mind can “understand” is current state. Healing comes, light comes . . .when I can enter into the “finished state” of what’s already been done. And “that” can only happen “through” our relationship with God through Christ.
So . . when I see passages like this one that’s been brought up, rather than try to reason out why Jesus would tell us it’d be best if we weren’t ever born if we were to do this or that . . . I try allow my spirit to do what I see we were created to do . . .to “hover” over the face of the deep . . .the identity of the unknown (to us). You know the passage . . .the deep that calls to the deep. My spirit is the light within me, searching my most inward thoughts (Proverbs 20:27) my mind is blind to spiritual truths. In fact, my mind is at emnity to God’s truths. It can read the Bible just like any other mind of man, but it’s ability to see spiritual truth is nonexistent without the Holy Spirit breathing life into what’s being read. So . . .when I’m not seeing understanding with a passage, I hover . . .I ponder . . .I stay with it for a while and listen for sound to come out of it. There are times when it’s immediate, other times, not so much. And yet other times, I’ll see different variations or different “dimensions” of the same passage. I think this deal with Judas is one of those.
Logically, what Jesus is saying doesn’t seem to line up with the fact that life in and of itself is a gift from God. But yet is Jesus saying the gift God gave Judas is actually a curse? If God is no respector of persons, why would life for Judas be cursed when the rest of us aren’t? Unless . . .it’s meant to be seen as a spiritual truth rather than a natural statement.