Does the fact that Judas had to betray Jesus mean that God made him do it?

This text is from a letter written by David Gooding in 1991.

In response to your question:

You say that Judas 'had to betray Jesus'. That is interesting, for the Bible itself nowhere says this. Do you mean to imply that if Judas had not betrayed Jesus, the Jewish high priests would have given up all attempts to have Jesus arrested and killed, because they could not have done it without Judas? How do you know this?

Suppose a tall building stands at a corner where Road A and Road B meet at right angles. Two cars are driving at high speed: one along Road A and the other along Road B, towards the corner. The drivers cannot see each other; but an observer standing on the roof can see both cars, and can see they are going so fast that they will collide. Does the fact that the observer can predict that these two cars will collide make them collide? The fact that Jesus knew that Judas was going to betray him does not mean, does it, that Jesus made Judas betray him (see John 6:70–72)?

God could foresee that men were so sinful that they would crucify his Son. Read the parable in Luke 20:9–18; do you think that the owner of the vineyard, by sending his son, made the husbandmen murder his son?

How better could God demonstrate his love than by allowing men to crucify his Son, and by loving them just the same, in spite of it, and by offering them salvation through that death (see Acts 2:23, 38; 3:13–19; Rom 5:7–10)?

Very sincerely,