Many Christians believe that all souls will be judged by God at the end of time. This is referred to as the Day of Judgement.
Those who are judged as worthy will have a place in Heaven, but those judged not to have lived good enough lives will go to Hell. They have earned a place in Heaven. God will say to these people: Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels Matthew Some Christians believe that souls are judged individually as soon as the body dies.
This is called personal judgement. Others believe that all souls must wait until the Day of Judgement, when all people who have ever lived and died will be judged together. Although its roots go back further, scholars typically date the creation of Islam to the 7th century, making it the youngest of the major world religions. With about million followers, scholars consider Buddhism one of the major world religions.
Its practice has historically been most prominent in East and Southeast Followers of Judaism believe in one God who revealed himself through ancient prophets. The history of Judaism is essential to understanding the Jewish faith, which has a rich heritage of law, Christianity is the most widely practiced religion in the world, with more than 2 billion followers.
The Christian faith centers on beliefs regarding the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. While it started with a small group of adherents, many historians regard Zoroastrianism is an ancient Persian religion that may have originated as early as 4, years ago. Zoroastrianism was the state religion of three Persian dynasties, until the Wicca is a modern-day, nature-based pagan religion. Though rituals and practices vary among people who identify as Wiccan, most observations include the festival celebrations of solstices and equinoxes, the honoring of a male god and a female goddess, and the incorporation of Live TV.
This Day In History. History Vault. Recommended for you. However there are many millions who believe the doctrine of the tribulation is a literal and truthful description of what will happen sometime in the future. During the tribulation the antichrist Satan's emissary will torture humanity, and God will go to war against the antichrist. The tribulation ends after seven years when God defeats the antichrist.
The tribulation has provided the background to many novels and a great deal of prophetic writing. Most premillennialists believe that the Church will escape the Tribulation altogether, through the doctrine of the Rapture. One group of premillennialists called 'posttribulationists' believe that the righteous believers have to remain on earth throughout the tribulation, but that God keeps them safe. Dispensationalism is a theological belief system devised by J. Darby founder of the Exclusive Brethren that divides human time into different ages, called dispensations.
It aims to show how God's plans and purposes have changed throughout history not gradually but in large steps. Each dispensation is a period during which God works in a specific way. There is a change of dispensation when God gives humanity a different revelation of his will to follow. Another way of looking at it is to consider a dispensation as a period of government. Different governments bring different ways of running a country - in different dispensations the same God runs the world in a different way.
Scofield, editor of the Scofield Reference Bible, devised the most commonly used dispensational breakdown of human history. He listed seven dispensations:. As a dispensation, grace begins with the death and resurrection of Christ The point of testing is no longer legal obedience as the condition of salvation, but acceptance or rejection of Christ, with good works as a fruit of salvation. So in the present dispensation God tests us by seeing if we reject or accept Christ. In the previous dispensation God tested us by seeing if we obeyed the law.
For those who accept it, dispensationalism provides a way of interpreting the Bible literally and consistently without contradictions. Dispensationalists say that in each dispensation God is using different revelations and so the Bible only has to be consistent within a particular dispensation. So contradictions in the Bible are only contradictions on the surface. If studied properly they turn out not to be contradictions at all, because different rules operate within each dispensation.
Critics say that the idea of dispensationalism is something that Darby made up himself "concocted in complete contradiction to all main Christian traditions", said James Barr , but Darby believed that the idea had been given to him by God. Dispensationalism wasn't a brand new doctrine anyway; Joachim of Fiore had put a similar idea forward in the 12th century CE.
In this version of dispensationalism the dispensations are not rigidly separated at an instant in time but gradually progress from one to another. In each dispensation it's possible to find early signs of the dispensation to come. Progressive dispensationalists interpret the Bible in a less literal way than other dispensationalists.
Postmillennialists believe that the Second Coming of Christ will come at the end of the Millennium and mark the full achievement of the kingdom of God on earth.
They believe that we are already in the Millennium, which began with Christ's resurrection , and that the world is gradually moving towards the promised time of peace and righteousness. Christ is ruling earth from heaven, through his church and through believers, and his kingdom and rule are steadily growing.
Amillennialists don't believe in the Millennium as a specific period of years, and regard Biblical reference to it as symbolic. They believe that the millennium began when Christ was born on earth and will end with the second coming. Amillennialists say that Christ is reigning now, both in heaven, and on the earth in the hearts of believers.
The doctrine, which was made popular by St Augustine, is accepted by the Roman Catholic church and many middle of the road Protestant denominations. The Rapture is the event in which Christ carries the faithful believers off to heaven before the Tribulation. This word refers to a "taking up" of Christians, both alive and dead, at the return of Christ. The idea is based on 1 Thessalonians 4.
Rapture derives from Latin for "to seize" rapere , also the root for raptor , a bird of prey. During the Millennium the believers will remain in heaven, and God will be working on earth with the people of Israel. Some Christians believe in the rapture, but disagree about the timing.
Some think the rapture will occur at the end of the tribulation period and others believe it will occur in the middle. This doctrine says that Christ will come to earth and take all the true believers to heaven before the Second Coming.
Christians disagree as to exactly when in the "end times" this will happen, and the Bible itself doesn't explicitly say whether it will happen before, during or after the great tribulation. The rapture is described in 1 Thessalonians 4, which says that believers will be "raptured" or "caught up" Latin: rapiemur in the clouds to meet Christ in the air. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Some Christians have encapsulated the idea of the rapture in the phrase "beam me up, Jesus" because they believe that the way the transporter works on Star Trek is the closest thing we have to the way the rapture will work.
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