Are we judged twice?

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In the Apostle’s Creed we state
“He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.”

Why will God judge the dead? How can he rejudge someone who is already in heaven or hell?

Also, what happens to the souls in purgatory?

I need to go to bed. Satan is putting all sorts of questions about my faith into my head. The son of a gun does that to me every once in a while.
 
The righteous will be in a glorified state without suffering or pain. How awesome.

What happens to those who are resurected who are in hell? Do their souls go back to hell? There is no mention of it in the site you referred me to. (Unless I missed it, which is possible.)

As a Catholic, is it ok to be cremated?
 
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Jocelyn:
As a Catholic, is it ok to be cremated?
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To answer your last question first: yes.

Q: Can Catholics be cremated? I was brought up to believe that cremation is a pagan ritual and is forbidden.

A: Early Christians opposed cremation because pagans often cremated their dead as a sign of disdain for the Christians’ belief in the physical resurrection of the body. To protect belief in this doctrine of faith, the Church forbade cremation. That prohibition was lifted in 1963. The Church still recommends that the faithful be buried, but Catholics may be cremated so long as cremation does not demonstrate a denial of belief in the resurrection of the body (Catechism of the Catholic Church 2301).
 
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Jocelyn:
In the Apostle’s Creed we state
“He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.”
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For a line by line (and often times word by word) explanation of all the creed entails, see here: vatican.va/archive/catechism/ccc_toc.htm

As for your question
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What happens to those who are resurected who are in hell? Do their souls go back to hell? There is no mention of it in the site you referred me to. (Unless I missed it, which is possible.)
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I was trying to find a definitive source, but did not do so well in my searching. It is my understanding that all will be united with their bodies and then sent to eternity one way or the other. Better hope those aren’t literal fires down there, huh? This site touches on it: catholicapologetics.org/ap090000.htm

The study of all things related to the End Times is called eschatology.
 
The answer is yes.
When we die there is the Particular Judgement at which time we will know if we are saved or not and if saved go to Purgatory (most likely) then to Heaven.
Then there is the General (or Last) Judgement with the Second Coming of Christ so at the end of time Jesus will bring human history to a close in the final judgement, which will not change the results of the Particular Judgement, but will bring the consequences of our deeds to light. This is when the resurrection of the body will happen although that does not necessarily mean reassembly of the atoms which formed our mortal bodies on earth. The essential meaning of the resurrection of the body is that our risen bodies will have a new relationship with the universe once time on earth is through.
The Church has not made a dogmatic statement on the exact meaning of the scripture passges describing the end of the world and the final judgement.
 
Here’s the skinny:

When each of us dies, our souls are immediately taken to the presence of God and judged. This is called the Particular Judgment. At this point we begin our eternal destiny. If we are going to hell, our souls go directly there. If we are deemed worthy of heaven, our souls will go directly to heaven, or if we are going to heaven but are in need of purification, we may go to Purgatory first (everyone in Purgatory will eventually go to heaven). Whatever our fate, our souls will stay there until the end of time.

At the Second Coming at the end of time, those Christians still alive will be taken to heaven (what some Protestants think of as of the rapture). Then will occur the General Judgment. At that time the living and the dead will be reunited with their bodies and brought together in God’s presence and judged before all. Those who have already been judged in the Particular Judgment will be brought from wherever their souls were -heaven, hell or Purgatory-- and have their judgment confirmed before all.

After this, time and Purgatory will be no more and all will enter with their souls and bodies into their eternal destiny, either hell or heaven.

This is an extremely bare-bones sketch, so if you want to get the details, see the five articles I linked below:

rosary-center.org/ll57n1.htm
rosary-center.org/ll57n2.htm
rosary-center.org/ll57n3.htm
rosary-center.org/ll57n4.htm
rosary-center.org/ll49n6.htm
 
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Jocelyn:
In the Apostle’s Creed we state
“He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.”

Why will God judge the dead? How can he rejudge someone who is already in heaven or hell?

Also, what happens to the souls in purgatory?

I need to go to bed. Satan is putting all sorts of questions about my faith into my head. The son of a gun does that to me every once in a while.
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The souls of the dead are currently in heaven or hell (purgatory is right at the door of heaven). At the end of the world every soul will return to their bodies, including the damned. Remember, the soul needs the body, and the body recieves the same fate. Then Christ will come down in Glory and judge us dead (at this point resurected) and the living (those that are alive at the time). Then the Bodies of the damned will burn along with their souls for eternity. The justified (body and soul united) will never die and will be in the Kingdom of God forever.
 
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