Christian theologies vary in their teachings on the Last Judgment. In much of the Latin Church the accent has been on God's final judgment at the end of the world, when there will be a general resurrection of the dead, who with the living, will be finally judged and consigned to heaven or hell. In the Christian East the judgment is by one's own conscience and the experience of separation from God or union with God has hell and heaven as key metaphors. Return to Theme
knowledge: contrasted with the traditional Christian view of judgment and punishment to reflect God's loving relationship with all His Sons: His Final Judgment. true perception: contrasted with the traditional Christian view of judgment and punishment and equated with the end of the Atonement when, following the Second Coming, the final distinction is made between truth and illusion, all guilt is undone, and awareness is restored to us as Christ -- the Son of the living God.
The belief that Christ, at his Second Coming, will “judge the living and the dead†(CCC 682). Jesus spoke of this future event in various sways, using images of wheat and chaff being separated (Mt 13:24-40, 36-43), the sorting of the good and bad fish (Mt 13: 47-50), and the separation of the sheep and the goats (Mt 25:31-46).