[Gods_Mercenary]

In my sometimes christian theologian phases, I tend to reject any idea that Judas is forced to be part of a great plan. (part of a deeply ingrained catholic hatred of the notion of pre-destination, no doubt, even as an agnostic, that stuff'll get ya) Judas, as the bible tells it, clearly makes a decision out of free will to betray Jesus, likely not out of financial incentive, but of ideaological one. Judas was likely deeply dissappointed with Jesus' pacifism, or wished to incite Jesus to be the ilitary hero that he and so many Jews desperately longed for. He is also clearly remorseful, taking his own life out of a conviction of his own evilness. All this adds up to, depending on how relativist you care to get, te possibility that Judas could have been forgiven based on the understandable intention of his sin, the fact that the consequences may have been unintended, and his deep remorse.