Oh?
How can you be sure; in light of your previous postings?
...the fact that the Bible has been distorted, heavily redacted, badly translated...
What a weak "gotcha" moment!
Must I really spell everything out? Okay, then let me formulate that more completely:
According to the written texts in which you place your trust, and which you proclaim as authoritative, even Christ acknowledged that there was at least one person for whom it would have been better had he never been born.
Sheesh!
Now can I expect a substantive rejoinder?
You folks have been consistently arguing against my claim that a truly merciful Deity would do better to create a Universe entirely lacking in suffering - even at the cost of your precious "sentience" or "Free Will."
Christ's statement clearly indicates that there is at least one instance where oblivion would be preferable to being born. This prompts the question: Why didn't a merciful Deity - aware of this situation - perform a mitzvah and grant Judas non-existence ab initio? Your only intellectual honest answer can be: "God works in mysterious ways, and Man lacks the capacity to fathom them and/or Judas was a pawn in the Divine Plan and had to be sacrificed 'for the greater good.'"
Regards,
This kind does the Jon Stewart “clown nose on; clown nose off” style of arguing: they dismiss the Bible as myths and legends unless there is one particular part of it they wish to make fun of, or as a “loose thread” to unravel the fabric of one’s faith: then the one verse they quote is and always has been utterly beyond the possibility of question or even of differing shades of meaning due to having been written in another language with idioms different from English....