Judgement Day

So what does “Risen” have to do with Judgement Day? Only everything! And for one thing, it isn’t about the bread they’re eating at the big event. According to the Book of Revelations, and well, the rest of the Bible in general,  Judgement Day is the final day of…, well, judgement, during which all humans will be resurrected from the dead, –those from Hell, and those on Earth, and so on. And then they will be judged. This big event on the Judeo-Christian calendar is also called the Last Judgement, as well as the Day of the Lord. However, what actually happens that day is debated widely among various sects of Christianity.

The day has various names in Islam, however, the meaning is still the same, –though they’re actually more in agreement of what actually happens. According to Islamic tradition, it is the day in which God judges all of Creation, including Jesus Christ. God will question Jesus as to whether or not he every commanded any man to worship him, or his mother, –according to Surah 5 in the Quran, Jesus denies it.

According to the Christian religion, it works like this:

When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and He will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. Then the king will say to those at His right hand, “Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.” … “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.”

Then He will say to those at His left hand, “You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.” … “Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.” And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. (Matthew 25:31-36, 40-43, 45-46 NRSV)

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. (Rev 20:11-12)

All the dead will be resurrected, according to Revelations, and they will be judged then by the acts committed in their lives. In the Quran, basically the same thing happens, except there’s a twist on things. Allah, the Islamic God, is merciful, and enforces that grace will not be a part of the actual justice of the final judgement. The Christian God on the other hand, offers salvation by “grace”, not particularly justice.