A purpose of the final judgment is to judge every person, to provide a separation of the faithful from the wicked, and to make available the promised blessings of eternal reward to God's faithful children. Jesus Christ is the judge. The concept of a final judgment requires that it be deferred until the entire mortal experience is completed. The Plan of Salvation teaches of a partial judgment at the time of death, when the spirit leaves the mortal body and enters the world of spirits (Alma 40:11-14), of another partial judgment at the time of resurrection, when the spirit and the physical body are permanently resurrected and reunited (Alma 11:45); and of a final judgment (Revelation 20:12; D&C 38:5) that will consign individuals to an eternal status (D&C 29:27-29; 3 Nephi 26:4). Thus, this final judgment will take place following the reuniting of body and spirit in the resurrection (Alma 11:44; 12:12). By that time, every person will have been given an opportunity to receive an understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 3:19-20; Luke 4:18; Isaiah 42:7). At the Judgment, each person will be required to give an accounting of the use of his or her mortal agency during mortality (D&C 101:78). The final judgment is the final point of eternal accountability for all voluntary actions, words, thoughts, desires, and works of the individual. The full significance of such an accounting cannot be adequately assessed unless it is realized that all judgments granted from the seat of God's justice are of infinite scope and eternal consequence (3 Nephi 26:4; D&C 76:112). Every person born to mortality will be brought to a final judgment (Mormon 3:18-20). No mortal act, no matter how righteous or wicked, will provide exemption from this judgment. Each individual is to be judged according to the degree of knowledge and opportunity available during mortal probation (2 Nephi 2:10). On the basis of records kept both on earth and in heaven (Revelation 20:12; 2 Nephi 29:11; D&C 128:7), each individual will be judged according to works, desires, and intent of the heart (Mosiah 4:6; 1 Nephi 15:33; D&C 33:1; 137:7-9; Alma 41:3) and assigned to an eternal kingdom. In this solemn responsibility, the Savior will apply both justice and mercy, such that every individual will know and declare that his or her reward is just (2 Nephi 9:46; Mosiah 27:31). Every soul will recognize that the record presented is true and that the Judgment constitutes a proper decision (Mosiah 16:1; 29:12) at the hand of a loving yet impartial judge (Mosiah 29:12-13; Alma 41:3-7; cf. TPJS, p. 218). Not all, however, will be held equally responsible for personal mortal acts. Speaking of the Judgment, the Prophet Joseph Smith taught that God "will judge them, "not according to what they have not, but according to what they have,' those who have lived without law, will be judged without law, and those who have a law, will be judged by that law" (TPJS, p. 218). Each brings his or her own record to this judgment, as stated by Church President John Taylor: "Because that record that is written by the man himself in the tablets of his own mind—that record that cannot lie—will in that day be unfolded before God and angels, and those who shall sit as judges" (JD 11:79; cf. Alma 41:7). Jesus Christ will be at the judgment bar, for he is the judge of both the living and the dead (Alma 11:44; Moroni 10:34; D&C 76:68). Others will also participate in the process, but the final judgment rests with Christ. The twelve apostles of the Lamb will judge the righteous among the Twelve tribes of Israel (D&C 29:12; Matthew 19:28; 1 Nephi 12:9-10), and the Twelve Nephite disciples will judge the Nephites (3 Nephi 27:27). Still other prophets and righteous Saints have been appointed to help judge the works and deeds of their fellow sojourners in mortality (1 Corinthians 6:2; Mormon 3:18-20). Thus, "there will be a whole hierarchy of judges who, under Christ, shall judge the righteous. He alone shall issue the decrees of damnation for the wicked" (McConkie, p. 520). The Lord Jesus Christ earned the right to judge every earthly soul as he ensured the plan of redemption through the Atonement (3 Nephi 27:14-16; Alma 42:23). That this responsibility was explicitly given to the Son by the Father (John 5:22, 27) is attested in the Book of Mormon: "My Father sent me that I might be lifted up upon the cross; …that I might draw all men unto me, that as I have been lifted up by men even so should men be lifted up by the Father, to stand before me, to be judged of their works" (3 Nephi 27:14-15). Evidence of the Father's divine trust is shown in giving Jesus the responsibility of pronouncing eternal judgment on the Father's own children. Christ will judge in accordance with the will of the Father (John 5:30). The basis of justice carried out at the final judgment lies in the agency granted to mortals so that "every man may be accountable for his own sins in the day of judgment" (D&C 101:78). There would be little value to agency without accountability. Just as Cain was counseled by the Lord, "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?" (Genesis 4:7), so each person has full option in making moral choices. As a result of this final judgment, the wicked will be eternally separated from the righteous (D&C 76; Alma 41:5). This separation will be the desired state for both, for neither the wicked nor the righteous could enjoy the constant presence of others so unlike themselves. As stated by Moroni, "Ye would be more miserable to dwell with a holy and just God, under a consciousness of your filthiness before him, than ye would to dwell with the damned souls in hell" (Mormon 9:4). And to the righteous, judgment will bring fulfillment of the promise that "they who have believed in the Holy One of Israel, they who have endured the crosses of the world, and despised the shame of it, they shall inherit the kingdom of God, which was prepared for them from the foundation of the world, and their joy shall be full forever" (2 Nephi 9:18). by Donald N. Wright
Today we continue our segment in the Afterlife series titled “The Truth About Hell” by looking at the message of the Gospel. Throughout the bible we see a consistent point about God: that He is love, and that only through a relationship with Him do we have eternal life. With this in mind, the concept of eternal conscious torment is not consistent with what the New Testament reveals about salvation.
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“Sometimes you have to lose your mind to gain your soul”: a magazine ad for America Eats Its Young One of the most enigmatic aspects of Funkadelic’s career is the group’s short-lived association with the Process Church of the Final Judgment. The occult organization, which provided the liner notes to Funkadelic’s third and fourth albums, achieved notoriety after Ed Sanders devoted a chapter to it in The Family, tying the Process to Charles Manson. The Process sued Sanders’ publisher and succeeded in having the offending chapter removed from subsequent editions of The Family, but the lawsuit seems only to have intensified suspicions that the Process was hiding something about its relationship with Manson. So not everyone thought the Process was groovy in 1972. Critic Robert Christgau slammed Funkadelic for their association with the Process in his review of America Eats Its Young: [Funkadelic’s] racial hostility is much preferable to the brotherhood bromides of that other Detroit label, but their taste in white people is suspect: it’s one thing to put down those who “picket this and protest that” from their “semi-first-class seat,” another to let the Process Church of the Final Judgment provide...
This 1-minute devotion explains what Scripture says about the final judgment of Believers.
Judgment Day is coming, but do you know what you will be judged for? Like a final exam at the end of a semester, wouldn’t it be better to know what you are going to be tested on rather than flying blind into that fateful day? Four different times Jesus spoke about a coming Judgment Day, when the living and the dead must stand before Him and give an account of their lives. At the end of that Day, one thing above all will be judged: what we did with Jesus, the Son of God. Did we accept Him, believe in Him and humbly walk under His authority? Or did we reject Him, ignore Him and live as if He never existed? But that is not all that we will be judged for on Judgment Day. The Bible says that we will have to give an account for our entire lives. And this is where many well-meaning Christians wade into confusion, projecting our own priorities onto God, assuming that what is important to us is important to God. Just as dangerous, we assume that what is important to our church must be important to God. Because Judgment Day is so vital to Christians, the Bible is not silent on what we will and what we will not be judged for on that day. Judgment Day is the ultimate final exam and God has already told us what to prepare for. Here are four surprising things that you will and will not be judged for on Judgment Day.
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