3. Two Ways To Live: Judgement

Judgement

Talk 3 of 6 in the series Theology of Two Ways to Live.

1. 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.
2. Importance of Judgement
3. 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
4. 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
5. Implications
   • God is:-
   • Humans are accountable
   • Future
6. Alternatives
   • Timing problem
   • Circularity of eternity
   • Annihilationism
   • Renewal –
   • non-eternal punishment
   • Hades, Hell and Sheol