Jesus on judgment day

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They say Jesus will come to judge the living and the dead so does that mean that nobody is in heaven know ?.What happens if the world keeps on going for another 4000 years ?how about the people who are all dead i understand there only sleeping in the grave but why can’t God judge them and all who die know so they can have there reward in heaven .It seems if we die and have to wait to be judged as long as the world keeps going on we will never get to heaven
 
The soul receives it’s particular judgment at death and either goes to Hell or Heaven (or heaven after purification).

The General Judgment is at the end of the world when all is made manifest to all. At that time our bodies will be reunited with our souls in Heaven or Hell.
 
The RC church does not believe in the Hellfire doctrine anymore. They now claim it is just an absence from God. Check out the Vatican web site.
 
I read somewhere (not a Catholic source, I must say) that the dead are simply dead in the grave (or in the ocean or in the atmosphere, wherever they happened to have ended up at death). All of them. At the return of Jesus, all will be resurrected and live in peace for 1000 years under the direct rule of Christ. One by one, as they submit, finally, to the will of God, they will be changed into glorified body-soul beings. Satan will be restrained during the 1000 years.
After the 1000 years, Satan will be freed for a short time to make one last-ditch effort to lure people away. Some will be tempted; those people will suffer eternal death. The rest, eternal life.
In this version, it’s not eternal punish_ing_ (in a hell of some sort), put eternal punish_ment_ (ceasing to exist).
This makes sense. I’ve always found Catholic eschatology rather mixed-up.
 
Hello Bruce,

Where does the Vatican website state that there is no hell as eternal damnation rather than only absence from God ?
Please forward the link where you read that.

Thank you !
 
Who says this? Mary and the saints are in Heaven now and enjoy God’s glory.
 
Hi again, This is a statement published by the ruling pope in 1999. Ask your priest if it is true.
“No Hell”: Pope CBC News Posted: Jul 29, 1999 5:52 AM ET
A hell without fire and brimstone. That’s the Roman Catholic Church’s latest view on what life in the hereafter might be like. And it comes straight from the Pope. The Pope made the statement yesterday in the Vatican City.

At this morning’s mass at the basilica of St. John’s, news of the Pope’s statement caught most of the people completely by surprise. “The Pope said what?” asked one man. “I’d have to see it before I believe it.”
For centuries the popular image of the wrath of God has been fire, brimstone, and every imaginable - and unimaginable - horror. The modern teaching of the Catholic church does not refer to hell as a place.
So, for many practicing Catholics, like Frank O’Leary, the Pope has simply confirmed what they believe anyway. “A lot of these things are metaphorical,” he says. “I never really thought of heaven as a physical place. It is not surprising to me that the Holy Father would point out that hell is not physical in the sense of this physical plane that we’re on right now.”
The Pope isn’t saying there’s no hell at all. He’s saying that hell is the state of eternal torment a soul ends up in when it cuts itself off from God.
And so another piece of religious folklore gives way to the rational mood of our times. It was only last year that Catholics heard from their Pope about the need to build more bridges between faith and reason. And just last week he set the record straight about heaven. Not as a place in the clouds but as a state of eternal union with God.
 
The Catechism references the fires of Hell, but notes that the the “chief punishment” is the separation from God. Jesus also uses other imagery, like darkness, to describe Hell.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P2O.HTM

As a result, popular imagery sometimes describes it as a very hot experience, and sometimes as very cold.
 
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Which part tells you that the Vatican does not believe in hell anymore ?

The article is ambiguous . It just suggests that the Vatican may not refer to hell as a physical place but it still suggests that there our souls may be tormented or punished.

It may suggest that we do not know what hell is like , but it does not suggest that there is no hell.
 
Do some research into the original Hebrew and Greek words translated into the “english” word hell. You will find that these words refer to as some Bibles translate them as “pit” “grave” etc. This explains why the Apostles Creed says that "Jesus dies and went to “hell” …[the common grave] Best wishes on your research. Be open minded or will only see what you want to see or believe.
 
Also don’t be afraid to ask a priest about this. Most will tell you just what the pope said.
 
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