Judas Went to His Own Place – A Biblical Verdict of Eternal Judgment

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According to the Bible, did Judas Iscariot go to hell or was he ultimately saved?

  • Judas went to hell, as judgment for his betrayal and unbelief

  • Judas was saved in the end, despite his betrayal

  • We can't know for sure, the Bible is unclear

  • He was only temporarily judged but not eternally lost


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Origen

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She recognised that she needed a Saviour. "My spirit has rejoiced in God my Saviour," she said. Saviour from what, if she was immaculate and sinless?

He saved Her by preserving Her soul from inheriting the original sin, which means that Her soul remained immaculate and full of God's Grace, and She remained thus of Her own free will.

Exactly, and if God could have done that, He could (and did) do the same with His Son when He took on human flesh.

So, you believe that God was capable of preserving Mary's soul from inheriting the original sin at the moment of Her conception?

As far as I am aware, Scripture doesn't even tell us who Mary's parents were, let alone whether they were just or not.

The living Being Who is our God has spoken about Mary and Her parents. All of His thoughts and words aren't confined between the covers of any one book.
 

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He saved Her by preserving Her soul from inheriting the original sin, which means that Her soul remained immaculate and full of God's Grace, and She remained thus of Her own free will.
Scriptural basis for that?
So, you believe that God was capable of preserving Mary's soul from inheriting the original sin at the moment of Her conception?
No, I was using your argument concerning Mary's conception, to say that if He could keep her from inheriting sinfulness at conception, what is the problem with Him keeping Jesus from inheriting it, without the need for an immaculately-conceived mother? I certainly wasn't saying that I believe He actually did cause Mary to be conceived immaculately - we are not told that in Scripture.
The living Being Who is our God has spoken about Mary and Her parents. All of His thoughts and words aren't confined between the covers of any one book.
This is a problem then. If His word is not the final authority for belief and practice, how do we as Christians know which of the multitude of ideas around about Jesus, heaven, hell, Mary, Creation, etc. are correct?
 

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Scriptural basis for that?

God is a living Being and what I've read from Him about Mary and Her parents was said in the 1940's to Maria Valtorta, and so how could it be found in the writings of the Evangelists thousands of years ago?....

I certainly wasn't saying that I believe He actually did cause Mary to be conceived immaculately -

But do you believe that God was capable of preserving Mary's soul from inheriting the original sin at the moment of Her conception? And could Mary not have continued to remain immaculate of Her own free will?

If His word is not the final authority for belief and practice, how do we as Christians know which of the multitude of ideas around about Jesus, heaven, hell, Mary, Creation, etc. are correct?

God is a living Being just like you and I. Are all your thoughts and words confined between the covers of any one book? No. Could they ever be? No. So, if that's true for us who are lesser beings, then how could it not be for God who is a greater Being? Scripture is sufficient for bringing people to belief and salvation, but it doesn't encompass all of God's thoughts and words about things. God is a living, loving, interactive God. God could come to you right now and speak about, for example, you and your life, and what He has to say won't be found in Scripture, but does that mean you shouldn't listen to what He says? No. Does it make Scripture less important? No. And when God truly speaks to a person, like Maria Valtorta, and has them write down all that He shows and says, He's going to make it known that they are His instrument, His "pen", just as He's always done with His instruments. Maria Valtorta was truly an instrument of His, and I can provide many proofs for it, and its all thanks to God.
 
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God is a living Being and what I've read from Him about Mary and Her parents was said in the 1940's to Maria Valtorta, and so how could it be found in the writings of the Evangelists thousands of years ago?....



But do you believe that God was capable of preserving Mary's soul from inheriting the original sin at the moment of Her conception? And could Mary not have continued to remain immaculate of Her own free will?



God is a living Being just like you and I. Are all of your thoughts and words confined between the covers of any one book? No. Could they ever be? No. So, if that's true for us who are lesser beings, then how could it not be for God who is a greater Being? Scripture is sufficient for bringing people to belief and salvation, but it doesn't encompass all of God's thoughts and words about things. God is a living, loving, interactive God. God could come to you right now and speak about, for example, you and your life, and what He says won't be found in Scripture, but does that mean you shouldn't listen to what He says? No. Does it make Scripture less important? No. And when God truly speaks to a person, like Maria Valtorta, and has them write down all that He shows and says, He's going to make it known that they are His instrument, His "pen", just as He's always done with His instruments. Maria Valtorta was truly an instrument of His, and I can provide many proofs for it, and its all thanks to God.
I am sorry, but I don't agree that we must use additions to the bible, whether by Maria Valtorta or anybody else.
 

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I am sorry, but I don't agree that we must use additions to the bible, whether by Maria Valtorta or anybody else.

God, a living Being, doesn't prohibit Himself from having thoughts and words and continuing to communicate them to His creation either directly or through using someone as His instrument, or "pen".
 

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As far as I am aware, Scripture doesn't even tell us who Mary's parents were, let alone whether they were just or not.

Exactly, and if God could have done that, He could (and did) do the same with His Son when He took on human flesh.

She recognised that she needed a Saviour. "My spirit has rejoiced in God my Saviour," she said. Saviour from what, if she was immaculate and sinless?
Mary's parents are named in the Apocrypha.
Joachim and Anne.

Omission of those texts labeled apocrypha leads to confusion in full contextual comprehension of the canonical books we have today.
 

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what I've read from Him about Mary and Her parents was said in the 1940's to Maria Valtorta

In other words, let's don't accept God's written Word.

This is exactly how and why the catholics have so much false doctrine they follow.




Mary's parents are named in the Apocrypha.

The co called apocrypha are not writings inspired by the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ.

There are things in the apocrypha that contradicts inspired writing from the Lord so the apocrypha be given the boot at the direction of the Lord.
 
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In other words, let's don't accept God's written Word.

That's not what I said. The fact you have to resort to changing what people said shows how weak your position is.

This is exactly how and why the catholics have so much false doctrine they follow.

I thank God I'm not someone who confines His thoughts and words to between the covers of any one book.
 
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Yeah some folks are so open minded, the devil can put anything he wants in there and they fall for it! :funlaugh2

I thank God that He taught how to discern. You should have faith in God, and use the tools that He supplied, not fear Satan to the point of confining God's thoughts and words to one book. God is a living Being...
 
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You should use it then and follow the Doctrine of Christ instead of men's wisdom being presented as the wisdom of God when it's not.

Part I

(I) The results from the astronomical and meteorological analysis of Maria Valtorta's Work by Professor Emilio Matricciani and Dr. Liberato De Caro, where they concluded:

"The richness of narrative elements contained in The Gospel as Revealed to Me (or The Poem of the Man-God) by Maria Valtorta has allowed to pursue both astronomical and meteorological studies, suited to verify as much as possible what she states. Indeed, Maria Valtorta affirmed to have witnessed in mystic visions the life of Jesus, and in particular his three years of public life, reporting detailed descriptions of landscapes, costumes, uses, roads, towns with their buildings (including the Temple in Jerusalem) and streets, rivers, lakes, hills, valleys, plantations, climate and rainfall rainy days, night sky with its constellations, stars and planets in the Holy Land, all information that should belong to a period of 2000 years ago. This is not possible from a rational point of view, but from this study a surprising and unexpected result emerges: Maria Valtorta narration seems to be not a fruit of her fantasy. In fact, thanks to a complex and rigorous astronomical analysis of the narrative elements present in her writings, it has been possible to determine a precise chronology of every event of Jesus’ life that she tells us, even if no explicit calendar date is reported in her writings. In particular, this study has led to dating the crucifixion of Jesus in Friday, April 23 of the year 34, a date already proposed by da I. Newton.

Maria Valtorta has also recorded in the EMV the presence of rain and this has suggested to compare her observations with the current meteorological data concerning the number of rainy days in the Holy Land, as recorded by the Israel Meteorological Service (IMS), because this random variable, as shown, seems to be quite independent by the limited climatic changes that have characterized the Holy Land in the last 2000 years. What has emerged is, once more, surprising and unexpected because the annual and even the monthly frequencies of rainy days found in the EMV correspond to what we find today in the IMS data bank. It seems that she has written down observations and facts really happened at the time of Jesus’ life, as a real witness of them would have done. The question arises, unsolved from a point of view exclusively rational, how all this is possible because what Maria Valtorta writes down cannot, in any way, be traced back to her fantasy or to her astronomical and meteorological knowledge.

In conclusion, if from one hand the scientific inquire has evidenced all the surprising and unexpected results reported and discussed in this paper, on the other hand our actual scientific knowledge cannot readily explain how these results are possible."

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(II) The results from the mathematical analysis of Maria Valtorta's Work by Professor Emilio Matricciani and Dr. Liberato De Caro, where they concluded:

"We have examined and studied the huge amount of literary works written by the Italian mystic Maria Valtorta, to assess similarities and differences. We have used mathematical and statistical tools developed for specifically studying deep linguistic aspects of texts, such as the readability index, the number of characters per word, the number of words per sentence, the number of punctuation marks per sentence and the number of words per punctuation marks, known as the word interval, an index that links the previous indices to fundamental aspects of the short−term memory of reader/listener.

The general trend obtained with statistical confidence tests is enough clear. The literary works explicitly attributable to Maria Valtorta (Autobiography and Descriptions) differ significantly from those of the literary works that, according to her claim, are attributable to the alleged characters Jesus and Mary, and when this is not true, as with the number of words per sentence, PF, (Figure 11a, right panel) and the word interval IP (Figure 12a, right panel), this happens only with Jesus says and Mary says. It seems that when Jesus and Mary allegedly speak directly to her, according to her claim, they adapt their communication to the capacity and robust processing time of her short−term memory. On the contrary, when Jesus speaks to a general audience (Parables and Sermons and Speeches) he adopts a significant lower word interval and shorter sentences, because the people may not have had such a good short-term memory as Maria Valtorta did.

Another interesting finding is the great similarity of the texts attributed to Jesus (Parables and Sermons and Speeches), a fact that should be expected in a real situation because this character, in both cases, allegedly speaks to a popular audience.


The comparison with the Italian literature is very striking. A single author, namely Maria Valtorta, seems to be able to write texts so diverse to cover the entire range of the Italian literature.

In conclusion, what do these findings mean? That Maria Valtorta is such a good writer to be able to modulate the linguistic parameters in so many different ways and as a function of character of the plot and type of literary text, so as to cover almost the entire range of the Italian literature? Or that visions and dictations really occurred and she was only a mystical, very intelligent and talented “writing tool”? Of course, no answer grounded in science can be given to the latter question.

As a final observation, the analysis performed in this paper could be done, of course, on other similar mystics’ writings. This could help theologians, working in team with scholars accustomed to using mathematics in their research, to better study mystical revelations by mathematically studying the alleged divine texts."

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(III) "Prof. Leo A. Brodeur, M.A., Lèsl., Ph.D., H.Sc.D., the Director of the Valtorta Research Center, actively read, researched, and wrote in defense of Maria Valtorta’s writings. Here is one prominent excerpt he wrote:

Arguments for a Supernatural Origin [For those who state] that Valtorta's writings were not supernatural in origin, did they investigate to see what kind of person Valtorta was? Had they done so, they would have quickly found that she was a good, earnest, devout Catholic, an invalid who had a deep prayer life and lived according to high moral standards. They would have found that she often claimed, explicitly, in no uncertain terms that she was having visions and dictations from Jesus and other heavenly persons, and that she fully realized the gravity of her claims.

Now had her visions and dictations been mere literary forms of her own deliberate invention, she would have been an unscrupulous liar; but this hypothesis is excluded by the testimonies of all the priests and nuns and lay people who knew her.

Or what if Valtorta had been insane and had imagined all those visions and dictations and mistaken them for real mystical occurrences (and thus escaped the accusation of being a hoaxer)? This hypothesis of lunacy falls flat in the light of her daily living during the years that she wrote. Within the limits of her physical handicaps, she functioned very well: she cared for people, kept up-to-date on current world events, wrote coherent, insightful letters, and had a witty, bright, keen mind as observed by all her visitors, some of whom were Church scholars or university educated laymen." (A Summa and Encyclopedia to Maria Valtorta’s Extraordinary Work)
 

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Part II

(IV) Jean Aulagnier describes what he did and his findings in this excerpt from his book:

"Some, even sincere Catholics, may still have doubts about Maria’s work. Is it an authentic revelation? Or is it just the roaming imaginations of a suffering mystical soul? After all, her writings could have been no more than personal reactions to her religious upbringing.

It is in this connection that a scientific approach to Maria Valtorta’s work was timely. I thus began to analyze her writings with the same method that I had used in my previous historical research, which had yielded such positive results.

First of all, I noticed that Maria Valtorta’s work consists of over 700 scenes. More than 600 concern Jesus’ Public Ministry alone, which spanned approximately 1200 days. This gives us an average of one scene every second day. I sought to determine whether it would be possible to use these writings to establish a precise chronology of Jesus’ Public Ministry.

There were three possibilities.

1. It might be possible to use Maria Valtorta’s writings to establish a chronology that would be confirmed by all other historical data on the life of Christ. In this case, my test would 199 be successful. We would have an excellent reason to disregard the possibility that Maria Valtorta’s writings were the result of her own imagination.

2. It might be possible to use Maria Valtorta’s writings to establish a chronology that was internally consistent, but would contradict known historical facts.

3. It might be impossible to use Maria Valtorta’s writings to establish any kind of chronology at all. In the last two cases, my test would fail since Maria Valtorta’s writings would have little or no historical value. This, however, still would not mean that Maria Valtorta’s writings were merely the fruit of her own imagination, since many mystical writings in the past did not have any particular historical value either. Furthermore, there is already evidence that Maria Valtorta’s visions provide an accurate picture of Palestine in Jesus’ time. She had never traveled to Israel or perused the literature of experts describing their archeological finds. Her writings were not revised by anyone else. Therefore, there is no explanation for the archeological and geographical accuracy of her writings except an intervention from the beyond. These factors exclude the possibility of a hoax or a mental disorder.
I proceeded with my research, and discovered that it was possible to establish the exact dates of the events described by Maria Valtorta. These dates do match all the historical data found in the Gospels and in other reliable sources. Her writings withstood the test of my complex analytical method, and my book reveals the chronology that I was able to derive.

There is no way that Maria Valtorta could have composed thousands of pages of fiction that would be so historically accurate. She only obtained the average education of well-to-do girls in early 20th century Italy. She never went to a university. She had no reference books at her disposal, except for the Bible and Pope Pius X’s catechism. In spite of this, some of the things that she wrote are only known by Biblical scholars and experts on ancient Israel. She did not have a gift for long, involved calculations. Yet, by our standards, the Jewish calendar in Jesus’ time was rather complicated, and it is impossible that Maria Valtorta could have imagined, let alone chanced upon, all kinds of chronological details that would stand up to historical scrutiny." (A Summa and Encyclopedia to Maria Valtorta’s Extraordinary Work)

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(V) "David J. Webster observed that Valtorta named nine towns and villages that were not discovered until after her death. He posted a landmark 31-page article that fundamentally proves the authenticity of Maria Valtorta's writings. The Poem of the Man-God may be the very first private revelation ever to be scientifically proven genuine.

In the above article David Webster summarizes his findings below (some of this is similar to what you read on the last page, but this is worded a little differently here):

Of the staggering total of all 255 geographical sites from Palestine mentioned in the Poem 79 (all marked * &**) were not listed in the 1939 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Atlas which represented the scholarship of her day. 62 (all marked **) of these 79 were listed neither by the ISBE Atlas or the 184-page 1968 McMillan Bible Atlas. Where did Maria Valtorta in the mid 1940’s get all these names? Are they fictitious? Of those 17 missed by the 1939 ISBE but included in the 1968 MBA, 9 have been confirmed by an “ancient external source.” Since then an additional 20 sites have been confirmed in the 1989 HarperCollins Atlas of the Bible. This is a total number of 29 confirmations of the original 79 unknown or obscure geographical 229 sites in Palestine mentioned in the Poem since the ISBE Atlas was published in 1939. 24 of these 29 do not even have an obscure reference in the Bible!

It is to be noted that the Harper Collins Atlas and the McMillan Bible Atlas are among the most significant and widely known atlases. The MacMillan Bible Atlas alone lists well over 1500 specific Palestinian locations." (A Summa and Encyclopedia to Maria Valtorta’s Extraordinary Work)

and so on...