Judgement
Talk 3 of 6 in the series Theology of Two Ways to Live.
The next talk is 4. Two Ways To Live: Atonement.
- Gospel Logic
- Creation – God made us from nothing for his purpose that as his image and likeness we multiply fill and subdue his world
- Sin – We have rejected God, rebelling against his rule over our lives becoming the law-makers the outlaws ruling without him
- Sin – We have rejected God, rebelling against his rule over our lives becoming the law-makers the outlaws ruling without him
- God’s punishment for rebellion is death and judgement.
- Importance of Judgement
- Biblical Background to Judgement
- Genesis 1-11
- b the nations Genesis 15:15-16 18:16-21
- Israel Deuteronomy 29:19-28 – rest of OT esp prophets
- John Baptist Matthew 3:7-12
- Jesus’ teaching
- Acts gospel preaching 10:42 and 17:31
- Epistles promise it
- Revelation
- Warnings of Judgement
- 2 Ways to Live text
- Biblical Concepts of Judgement
- God punishes by mortality
- God basic judgement in History
- Adam and Eve
- day of death
- but not 1-1 correspondence
- iv collective as well as individual
- v sickness related to sin (individuals)
- sometimes in war – (corporate)
- God’s withdrawal Romans 1:18ff
- ambiguity of the world
- God judges beyond the grave
- God’s Eschatological and Apocalyptic judgement
- Implications
- God is:-
- Humans are accountable
- Future
- Alternatives
- Timing problem
- Circularity of eternity
- Annihilationism
- Renewal –
- non-eternal punishment
- Hades, Hell and Sheol
