For, with Judas, you have a situation where an innocent is given over to executioners, to be killed (which is what happens in Gethsemane, when Jesus is betrayed by him), and without him you have a situation where the redemption of humankind, or the ‘divine plan,’ cannot be brought to fruition, insofar as the death of Christ is necessary for the expiation of the guilt we inherit by way of Adam. How then is one to feel about Judas, as a person who existed? To wish that his sin be committed seems impossible, but to wish that his sin not be committed seems equally impossible.