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There's a fascinating idea that Judas was the one who committed the ultimate sacrifice. That god chose him to be his human incarnate, to truly experience humanity and guilt by committing an ultimate betrayal and becoming the villain of biblical history. All allowing him to finally understand and forgive humanity's sin, by committing one himself. It follows that this is supposedly maddening knowledge as it breaks the illusion of Christ's sacrifice.
I'm definitely butchering and ad-libbing the original idea, but I think this makes for a grander story than the traditional "birth myself to sacrifice myself to myself to forgive everyone else" interpretation.
Where do I read more about this?
I painstakingly used video transcription searches to figure out where I heard this from and I finally found it!
It was touched on in this video Something's Hiding Outside This Game... at 52 minutes.
The actual work being talked about is Three Versions of Judas by Jorge Luis Borges.
I think the user is referencing the Gospal of Judas: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Judas
But not sure if there's a larger thought group here to point to