Do you mean "at fault" which implies blame.  As in, he is to blame for the death of Jesus.  Which is such a heady mix of the bizzare and the ridiculous I can see it being a popular view.  Judas had no more choice that Peter.  'Course Peter became the Pope for just denying knowing Christ which kinda begs a question or two.  It is a perilous thing for mortal man to trifle in the affairs of angels and Kings.

Was Saul responsible for chucking the spear at David?

     Since it was foreordained as stated by Jesus just as the other events including the Crucifixion and the resurrection I 've wondered from time to time whether Judas didn't get a raw deal.  I still wonder.  God bless
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It was necessary that Jesus have a context within which to give up His life for us.  If it had not been Judas it would have been somebody else.  Personal decisions led to his sins.  You sin, you die.

Did you notice the difference between the way Judas handled his sinful rejection of Jesus, compared to the way Peter handled his sinful rejection of Jesus?

Judas freaked out when he realized what he'd done.  The guilt of it, the horror of it, threatened to crush him.  He couldn't bear it one more second.  He killed himself to try to get away from the pain, and sealed himself into death, where there is no more chance to repent and be forgiven.

Peter freaked out when he realized what he'd done.  The guilt of it, the horror of it, threatened to crush him.  He couldn't bear it one more second.  He wept, he repented, he thought about going back to fishing and trying to, somehow, live the rest of his life without his Lord.  He still didn't fully understand all about grace, and he still didn't quite "get it" that the Lord meant what He said about rising again... but at least he left himself alive.  Where there is life there is hope.

Judas was, supposedly, a more intelligent man than Peter.  Certainly a more educated man.  He could have, should have, understood at least as much as an uneducated fisherman about these things.  But, for whatever reason, he stayed self-centered even in his regrets about what he did.

If only Judas had had an attitude like Peter's -- open to hope, open to trying to live for the Lord even when you've messed up -- if only Judas had also repented instead of simply regretted -- Judas would be standing there waiting for us in Heaven, just as the stories say Peter will be.

I have heard the view of God 'knowing the end from the beginning' described in what I thought was a really helpful way.

God is outside time. And because of that, he can look over the expanse of those bound by it, the way we can look at the earth from an aeroplane, seeing one side of the horizon to the other.

When God is able to see the big picture like that, he can prophesy what's going to happen before it does. He can also place a man who will act wickedly and decietfully right in the place he wants them at a given time to fulfill a purpose. That person still has freewill. But God knows the sort of person they are and what they'll do in a given situation before they do it because he knows them.

That's how I would view this situation.

No, it's George Bush's fault.

George the Elder

[George Junior wasn't even born yet...]