I mean it’s not like he was under any physical or mental duress at the time....
When you think about Rahab the harlot lying to her own people—committing treason!—so as to aid the Israeli spies, and then being COMMENDED by GOD for her faith, this business of even trying to judge hidden motives of the heart in these scenarios becomes murky.
I remember in Dreyer’s JOAN OF ARC a line in which Joan tells her accusers that they could torture her physically to the point of possible surrender, but once she regained her strength she’d be right back to where her heart really was...standing with GOD and against them!
What we cannot see in these moments is the leading of God for the individual at that moment. He gives the grace and wisdom for such crisis when needed. Maybe Foley was right, or Joan was wrong. Who really knows?
“The Cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.”
- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)