I'm not on the " devil's side" .. Its just I feel god does more for some than others... I've read testimonies where god has stopped some from killing themselves..god does intervene in the lives of some but not others... But I do agree there is a line you can cross.
Was not suggesting or accusing that you was .
I simply pointed out that this 'question' pops up with more regularity than it ever did .
and that it doing so seems to be in direct proportion as the growing lack of Christian teaching and understanding there is in the world.
"the mystery of iniquity " as the scriptures puts it needs then to be treated with great care .
But most certainly with a foundation firmly settled on the understanding that God is tottally good and his judgments are both just and "like the great mountains"
The temptation then to jump to a wrong conclusion is or can be very easy about the nature and the character of God.
To doubt that character and nature of God was the foundation the devil laid when he tempted Eve .
Judas had the same 'equal oppertunity' as all the other disciples.
You might equally argue that the 2 and half million children of Israel had also the same oppertunities as the TWO faithful spies .
But where as those TWO allowed God to work in them and get Egypt OUT of them.
The vast majority albeit seeing and hearing the same things in 40 DAYS while letting God get them out of Egypt did not allow God to get Egypt out of them,.
Judas then saw and heard the same things as the other 11 disciples and even participated in miracle work of God . yet while beign called out of the world .Did not let the Lord get the world out of him.
Man goes by the appearance God looketh on the heart .
You look at one being saved and not another and assume? or allow the thought? that God is unjust ?
This is never so.
You simply do not nor I know all the facts in the matter.
The FACTS of Judas are enough to form reasonable conclusions that LED him to that fatal decision to betray Christ .
These things are given for our ENSAMPLE says the scriptures .
That we may learn from them and not pay the same awful price by making the same mistakes.
When Jesus said "you MUST be BORNagain" it was not a take or a leave it proposition.
It is an imperative of God . Who has given to all who hear the gospel an oopertunity to be reconciled to their maker.
Those who would judge God who they do not know to justify themselves who they do say well what about those who have not heard the gospel?
In truth if you have heard it how much the greater condemnation is for you who then reject it than for those who never have ?
If this is doubted the Lord Himself said that if Sodom had heard what his hearers had heard and seen they would have repented , and thus the greater condemnation was upon those w ho then rejected Christ and the gospel.
By NATURE we are ALL predestined to be damned and go to hell.
For we are born of a corruptable seed and as every seed is predestined to bring forth fruit after its own kind .Then so the seed of Adam predestined to bring forth corruption unto death.
no man then has any hope for we are all by nature "children of wrath" and " sons of disobedience"
without hope and with out Christ in this world.
But the same law that applies to the corruptable seed applies also to the " incorruptable seed which is the Word of God"
For if the corruptable seed is predestined to bring forth fruit after its kind from corruption to death .
Then also the incorruptable seed is predestined to bring forth fruit after its kind of righteosuness unto life!
By that it can be seen the honour and the privledge that Judas received .But did not respond to .
For to be BORNagain of the WORD AND THE SPIRIT of God is to be not only translated from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of Gods dear Son . But also to be translated from one predestination to another .
It truly is a MIGHTY work of God and so "great a salvation"
Thus did Jesus say of it "sin must come but woe to him by whom it comes"
Make sure then you are not the one by whom it comes.
and instead of 'propagating ' lies sow the good seed of the Word of God.
and instead of doing the devils will do Gods will.
and instead of working in the kingdom of darkness work in the kingdom of Gods dear Son.
and instead of beign a child of wrath and a son of disobedience .Obey the gospel and be a child of God.
For that is the will and calling of God
There is a refusal of faith . For Moses refused to eb called the son of Pharoes daughter .
There is also the choosing of faith .But rather chose the aflictions of Christ than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a SEASON"
in Christ
Jesus