What Happened to Judas?

I do apreciate the artical very much. I also feel that Judas' activities in the events leading to the crucifiction are misunderstood. I feel that Christ has forgiven Judas, therefore we, out of love are to forgive Judas. I cannot believe that Judas would have ever given Christ up on purpose to be killed. I feel that those seeking to kill Jesus in their trickery asked Judas to show them who this man Christ was so they might simply ask questions or see who this great man was. Judas loved Christ. Being in an opportunting to make what seemed at the time a little harmless money seeing no harm in leading the killers to Christ. But, when he finally realized what they were intendinng to do, to murder Jesus, he totally regreted his being so blind and unwittingly betraying his Christ and the man he fully understood as lord.
To betray another, especially a man to death would indicate hate or contempt, there was no sign of that. Judas was duped, fooled. Your thought?

The author stated >>"although we fail him in many ways, we do love Jesus and claim him as our Savior."<<
Yet Jesus tells us that if we do not keep His words we do not Love Him. Jn 14:21 - 24
Every day I see those who call themselves Christian betray the Lord. Having been called into fulltime ministry since I was 16 and ordained since 1994, on a daily basis, Christians reject the Lord's will for my life.
It is easy to see how much the Church has turned away from God's statutes. All one need do is search Christian Job boards for the position of Pastor. In 90% of the postings you will find that they require the Pastor to have a college degree and seminary training. No one relies solely on the guidence of the Holy Spirit to choose a Pastor. It is much easier to require that an individual attend the institutions that will indoctrinate (more like brainwash) him into their beliefs. As a result, the church does not keep the teachings of Christ. (bibledates.com)

There is more to salvation than just reading the Word.
So Jesus said to them (the Jews) "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink of His blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

Christ's hearers understand perfectly well that he means exactly what he says; but they cannot believe that what he says could be true. If they had understood him in a metaphorical, figurative or "symbolic" sense there would be no reason for them to be so surprised and nothing to cause an argument. Later, Jesus reaffims what he has said--confiming what they have understood him to say.

"the Word gives life to our souls, but the Word made flesh nourishes our bodies". St. Thom. Aquinas

After this many drew back and no longer went with him.

Lord, to whom else shall we go?

Why would anyone give their life in martydom for a symbol?

The only problem I have with the article is the assumption that anyone who falls away was never a REAL Christian to begin with. The name of the author's ministry is KEEP BELIEVING, not IF YOU STOP BELIEVING, YOU NEVER BELIEVED IN THE FIRST PLACE. The danger is the false teaching that if you KNOW you are a believer, you CANNOT stop believing. Clearly, the Bible teaches that WE HAVE A CHOICE -- ALL THE WAY TO THE END. We can choose to fall away, to stop believing, to renounce Christ, and to be disqualified for the prize. KEEP believing is good advice!