How did Judas die?

[GordonGecko]

Matthew 27:5
And he [Judas] cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.


Acts 1:18
Now this man [Judas] purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

 

[TwoWitnesses]

suicide or a farming accident?

 

[NightSwimmer]

At least one of the non-canonical gospels implies that he was stoned to death.

 

[Greenridgeman]

Who cares? He played his part.

 

[NightSwimmer]

Who cares? He played his part.

That's sort of the point of the third version of Judas.

 

[Greenridgeman]

Nobody can expect a text or rather a collection of texts that have come down through hundreds of generations and been filtered through several languages to have a perfect consistency.

It is the way the Spirit moves you to a personal relationship to the text that counts.

Stiff-necked nitpickers with have an especially tedious section of Hell to endure, IMNSHO.

In the meantime, King James Version is my version.

Got no quarrels at all with any duality therein.

 

[Greenridgeman]

of course I meant "will have"

 

[gigi]

I think Judas is in heaven.

 

[888888]

Nobody can expect a text or rather a collection of texts that have come down through hundreds of generations and been filtered through several languages to have a perfect consistency.

Kind of like the whole dam book, how can anyone expect that a collection of texts and I might add, a collection of passed on stories for the most part that were put down in a story form a long time past the events being written about at the time.
But the truth is many people believe that the bible is a true and complete history of GOD. they have dumb it down quite a bit lately with the king James version, because so many couldn't understand it. Kind of like God for dummies.

 

[888888]

I think Judas is in heaven.

well if there is one, I will take my cell phone with me and I will give you a call so you know for sure.

 

[fairsheet]

Yeah but c'mon...how do we get from hanged, to gushing bowels, to stoned? Although...I suppose if you were to hang a stoned guy, you probably shouldn't be surprised if his bowels gush! Now I can see how the various chroniclers may've wished to manipulate, sanitize, or promote the imagery over the millennia.

But...it's interesting to note that the accounting has remained consistent and incontrivertable - 30 pieces of silver - not 35, not 300, but 30. And silver?..not gold, not myrhh, but always silver? 30 pieces of silver.

That oughta tell us something....maybe, about how the more things change, the more they remain the same.

 

[mark14]

Jesus is your savior. That's all you need to know.

 

[Days]

suicide

 

[Days]

or if you end up in hell, you might give us a buzz from there when you run into Judas... cuz the psalms prophesied he was sent to hell.

 

[fairsheet]

or if you end up in hell, you might give us a buzz from there when you run into Judas... cuz the psalms prophesied he was sent to hell.

I heard he had a goat. I'm hoping to meet up with his goat.

 

[Days]

okay, I'm passing on most of that. But I will point out that Genesis is where you find stories passed on for a hundred generations by mouth, being written down. The gospels, on the other hand, were eyewitness accounts by men who walked alongside Jesus... except for Luke, but he interacted directly with those eyewitnesses.

By no means is the Bible a complete history of God... look no further than the final verse of the Gospel of John:

25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

 

[Days]

okay, see, I'm not sure you get to keep your goat when you get sent to hell.

there is that verse about coming into this world and leaving it... with nothing.

 

[Days]

30 pieces of silver was the price of a slave. Judas bought a field with the money (at the Temple) and hanged himself and no one was there to take him down so his bowels gushed out.

I know the real problems with the harmony of the gospels and I have my own personal favorite that really begs some serious questions, but i'm okay with it, and I'm not sharing it.

 

[Days]

the word Joshua translates into "I am salvation"

he's the door into the spiritual realm. Hundreds of millions of people have testified that they have walked through that door.

 

[fairsheet]

okay, see, I'm not sure you get to keep your goat when you get sent to hell.

there is that verse about coming into this world and leaving it... with nothing.

I've rambled in the past around how some Christian-sects are especially insistent that our dogs don't go to heaven. I've suggested that's bogus and that if there aren't any dogs there, it can't be heaven. On the flipside, if God's God and feels he's left with no choice but to send me to hell - even if it IS my fault - the least a compassionate God could do, is let me take my goat.

And Days?...if you think the above is but flippancy?...It really isn't - even if it IS expressed flippantly.