Cheryl Schatz

Excellent questions, Ryan! The Greek word that Jesus used is highly important. It refers to something that is actually good, not “less bad”. If Jesus had wanted us to know that Judas would have been punished in hell as a baby, but not as much as he would have been punished as a grown man who betrayed Jesus, then He would have used a word comparing judgments, not a word identifying a good thing. For example in Matthew 10:15, Jesus said: Matthew 10:15 (NASB) 15 “Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city. The term “more tolerable” is a comparison of judgment. It is not “good” or “beneficial”.