Judgment Day Question

[Wannano]

Right, we have to reconcile all of the teaching. And we have to keep in mind Holy Scripture is not a systematic theology text.

The Catholic position is that believing doesn’t mean simply an intellectual belief. This makes sense since the Epistle of James says even the demons beleive. Belief includes the idea of trusting in God and doing His will. The important thing is that merely believing is not enough if you continue to live a life of gross immorality.

I agree with what you said here. It seems sad to me that so many in the Church don’t walk the talk.

I once heard it interestingly put this way: your talk talks, and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks!

 

[Techno2000]

When a person dies and is judged by God, will that person be judged on what he believes and on his actions in this life and whether or not he contritely repents of his sins, or can he also be judged for the faith community to which he belongs and what they teach?

For example: If a person believes X because that is what his faith tradition teaches on topic Y, will he be judged harshly if that belief is found to be incorrect in the end? For example, if a Jehovah’s Witness lives his whole life as a sincere JW and dies in that faith, will God hold him personally responsible for the faith errors he was raised in or will He have mercy and judge his heart?

I apologize if this is a hard post to understand. I hesitated before submitting it.

Context:
I know a handyman who does work for us at our house sometimes who is a Jehovah’s Witness and comes from a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses. He is a very nice man and very ethical and hard-working and a decent person, but he is not a Christian as I understand it. I was conjecturing what would happen to him on Judgment Day.

If much is given…much is expected… if little is given, little is expected.

 

[Louman127]

We will be judged on our heart. The heart and how we have chosen to nurture it. What opinions we have, what we have done, what we have failed to do, true love for God, and more. There are so many things that go into the judgement because of the infinite knowledge of God.

At the end of many peoples lives they have become so far different from what they were as an innocent child. One should never let go and forget that innocence but should apply it to his or her current personality because that is when the heart is clearest. When I say we will be judged by our heart it is us essentially/our soul. Our heart encompasses who we are.

What areas of our heart have we let be darkened? What areas of our heart have embraced more of our will and less of Gods will? How set in our ways have we become that we deny truthful change? If given the truth, do we run from it? How severe is the degree of this imperfection? How unclean is this soul? Is it capable of salvation? Or has it chosen dust over God? Does this soul love and I mean truly love?

There is so much on the subconscious level to analyze. We can say many things of what would entail judgement but we should keep in mind that the mind of God is not bound by our language. So we best not get comfortable in saying “As long as I do this or that I’ll be good.” Saint Paul says to work out your salvation in fear in trembling. This would be a point where that would apply perfectly. I do not mean overcome by fear but be wise and apply healthy fear accordingly. Because God will judge US. And that encompasses who we are as a soul and how we have allowed the Holy Spirit sanctify the soul or have not allowed Him. And who we are overflows into what we do in our daily lives. How we allow our soul to be crafted is who we become.

If read correctly Scripture will guide one to the whole truth.