![]() After the Judgment, the Righteous will go to their eternal reward in heaven and the Accursed will depart to hell (see Matthew 25)." The "issue of this judgment shall be a permanent separation of the evil and the good, the righteous and the wicked" (see The Sheep and the Goats). Īnglican and Methodist theology holds that at the time of the Last Day, "Jesus will return and that He will 'judge both the quick and the dead'," and "all be bodily resurrected and stand before Christ as our Judge. Souls remain in Hades until the Last Judgment and "Christians may also improve in holiness after death during the middle state before the final judgment". Īnglican and Methodist theology holds that "there is an intermediate state between death and the resurrection of the dead, in which the soul does not sleep in unconsciousness, but exists in happiness or misery till the resurrection, when it shall be reunited to the body and receive its final reward." This space, termed Hades, is divided into Paradise (the Bosom of Abraham) and Gehenna "but with an impassable gulf between the two". The doctrine and iconographic depiction of the Last Judgment are drawn from many passages from the apocalyptic sections of the Bible, but most notably from Jesus' teaching of the strait gate in the Gospel of Matthew and in the Gospel of Luke Anglicanism and Methodism Īrticle IV – Of the Resurrection of Christ in Anglicanism's Articles of Religion and Article III – Of the Resurrection of Christ of Methodism's Articles of Religion state that: Ĭhrist did truly rise again from death, and took again his body, with flesh, bones, and all things appertaining to the perfection of Man's nature wherewith he ascended into Heaven, and there sitteth, until he return to judge all Men at the last day. The Last Judgment mosaic (14th-century), south facade of Saint Vitus Cathedral, Prague, Czech Republic. The Last Judgment has inspired numerous artistic depictions. ![]() ![]() Christian Futurists believe it will take place after the resurrection of the dead and the Second Coming of Christ while Full Preterists believe it has already occurred. The concept is found in all the canonical gospels, particularly the Gospel of Matthew, as well as in Surat az-Zukhruf in the Quran, according to some interpretations. Some Christian and Islamic denominations consider the Second Coming of Christ to be the final and infinite judgment by God of the people of every nation resulting in the approval of some and the penalizing of others. The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday or The Day of the Lord ( Hebrew: יום הדין, romanized: Yom ha-din, Arabic: یوم القيامة, romanized: Yawm al-qiyāmah, lit.'Day of Resurrection' or Arabic: یوم الدین, romanized: Yawm ad-din, lit.'Day of Judgement') is part of the Abrahamic religions and in the Frashokereti of Zoroastrianism.
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