The sinful nature that we are before we become complete in Christ as a new creation will be judged, forgiven, and forgotten.
Sin will not be punished it will not be recognized because we are reborn in one whom there is no sin.
For those *IN* Christ, that is a correct statement. However, what I have stated, and scripture does not state, that everyone dies *IN Christ.*
If that were true, judgement would naturally become useless. Scripture makes it very clear that judgement in the next life exist.
2 Peter 2
1But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought thembringing swift destruction on themselves. 2Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. 3In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
(This exist today at an extreme level)
4For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeonsto be held for judgment; 5if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; 6if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men 8(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard) 9if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.10This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority.
(Do you see the seperation that exist in all of scripture, between "Just and unjust."?)
Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings; 11yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord. 12But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
(scripture makes it clear that judgement will NOT be forgotten)
13They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you. 14With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greedan accursed brood! 15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness. 16But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkeya beast without speechwho spoke with a man's voice and restrained the prophet's madness.
7These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. 18For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. 19They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravityfor a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. 20If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. 21It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. 22Of them the proverbs are true: "A dog returns to its vomit,"and, "A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud."
It's interesting scripture speaks so much about future judgement, yet so many deny God will judge anyone.
We come through pains, trials, and tribulations in this life and those experiences and how we deal with them affect us in the present and in the future.
Some can make the mistake that judgement means "In this life," as I have read that many times. (yes, I do read what people write, but it doesn't make their doctrines correct) There are many good Christians that suffer in this life, as well as people who escape justice after murdering someone. Scripture says that "Blackest darkness is reserved," which will come at its time no doubt.
Daniel 12:2
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
Dan~~~>still doesn't understand why a few people believe this and the hundreds of other scriptures are not true
