Judas never knew God's grace. He was destined to destruction by God's ordinance.
He received by God's Grace the Apostolic Gifts, yet did not repent of his love of silver...
And for this he lost his Salvation and his Apostleship...
Repentance is required for Salvation...
It is not Salvation...
God gives Salvation, which IS God's Grace, which is Himself that He gives...
We are an adulterous and sinful generation, and so was Israel...
So God had His Prophet marry the Harlot...
It did not go well with her...
What you DO matters...
Arsenios
1) Jesus didn't cut out a pound of flesh, nor did he drain a pint of blood. He was symbolizing his role as the sacrificed lamb of God. It is extremely significant that Jesus died as a sacrifice on the Passover.
You make Jesus words into a magical elixir that is never what he meant.
Hebrews 10:5-23,39
Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’” When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,” then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin. Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
