Will man be judged?

Death..... and then?

Only if we look beyond our limits

and see our entire life at a glance, will we recognize its purpose and see God at the center of the world. Death would then not  only  be  the  extinction  of  a  light,  which  it appears  to  be,  but a person's ultimate  accomplishment.

All those who  never  had a  relationship  to God  because they grew up in slums or because God was presented to them as a fairy-tale or a tyrant will, at least in death, have a chance to meet God personally.  And why should they not be able to review their relationship to God at this instant?

However,  it would be  frivolous  not to care about God during a lifetime, hoping that there will still be enough time in death. Who knows whether we will then have  the strength to suddenly deny  our past and accept a new orientation against a way of life entrenched during a lifetime. What we intend to become in the future, we must begin in the present. This ultimate decision of man would either be a confirmation of his earlier behavior, a correction, or perhaps a revocation of his entire previous life.

These  decisions are then final and irrevocable,  since there are no longer any new aspects, ignorance or wavering. Beyond death, everything is final. "The way a tree falls,  it remains on the ground."  In the parable of the rich man and poor Lazarus (Lk 16,19-31) the Bible says that death seals man's fate forever. Nowhere in the Scriptures does the teaching of transmigration of souls find any support.

Will man be judged?

How do you imagine the "judgment" to be which awaits every human being according to Christian belief (2 Cor 5,10)? Perhaps you think of a judge's chair in front of which the deceased must appear to be judged by God? Or do you envision an open book with all our life data?  All this only makes us realize that man has to answer for his behavior. In other words: injustice will not have the last word! A last resort upholds justice.

Above all, the Scriptures emphasize that God really wants to save people and that He is not interested in a rejecting judgment (John 3,16 ff; 1 Tim 2,4). It depends on the person himself whether or not he reaches the goal of his life.

At the moment of death, a person comes to a comprehensive self-knowledge without any self-deception. Every detail becomes evident. This includes all the individual decisions which, woven together, make up the total of our life. This perspective allows  the  person  to  see  what  was  done  right or wrong. The judgment is first of all a self-judgment and at the same time, the judgment of God. The message of  the  judgment  is  the equality of people before God's justice, bringing seriousness and drama into our life and changing it.