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- Title
The Interface Between the Doctrines of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will: Judas Iscariot as a Test Case.
- Authors
Toga, James Partee; Asumang, Annang
- Abstract
The New Testament indicates that Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Jesus was foreknown by God and by Jesus, and that it was in fulfilment of Scripture, and yet at the same time it judges him culpable for his actions. In that case, to what extent is divine foreknowledge compatible with human free will? Through exegetical, philosophical and theological analyses of the relevant passages, the study arrives at a number of conclusions about the nature and pastoral function of compatibilism in the specific test case of Judas Iscariot. It is observed for example, that all the New Testament passages in relation to Judas Iscariot underline the interplay between divine foreknowledge and human free will in a non-contrastive transcendent manner, even though they place different emphases on the degree of this compatibility, while others underline a complicated role for even Satan. Some of the differences in emphases between the Gospels with regard to Judas Iscariot are also shown to reflect respective sociopastoral contexts of their first readers. The article concludes that God held Judas Iscariot culpable for his action, though God foreknew it and that it fulfilled scripture.
- Subjects
FREE will &; determinism; JESUS Christ; DOCTRINAL theology; JUDAS Iscariot; THEOLOGY
- Publication
Conspectus (South African Theological Seminary), 2019, Vol 27, p160
- ISSN
1996-8167
- Publication type
Article