So, do Christians believe their sins are judged when they go to Heaven?
That would mean that when one dies they either go to heaven or hell and that is judgment. But the "wages of sin is death" so when you die you have paid for your sins? So why a judgment and for what? Eternal death or eternal death? Then there would be no need for a Resurrection?
My beliefs are that only a few goes to heaven and they serves with Jesus for a thousand years and after the thousand years......I don't believe the god I know would burn anyone physically forever. SO hell do not exist. It represent the second death. Everlasting separation form GOD>
Lady,
Before Christ conquered death, those that believed in the God of Abraham and died, went to a specific place called Abraham's bosom and it was also a paradise. Across a deep chasm was what
some call Hell. Both locations are temporary.
Read about the rich man who called out to Abraham for a drop of water. That is where Christ went after He died, ( along with the thief on the cross next to Him), before Christ returned to earth.
He went there to open the gate of death for those in Abraham's bosom. And to proclaim who He was to the group the rich man was in. Jesus brought Abraham's group back to earth for the forty days Jesus stayed here.
Then they all left together to the Father. < Matthew refers to "them" who were taken up with Jesus, to eternal life. They were Jesus' first fruit offering to His Father.
Those on the other side of the chasm are still there, awaiting the White Throne Judgement and will give an account of their sins, and face a second death.
Now that death has been conquered by Christ, those
in Christ go straight to Heaven now when they die. The only judgement they receive at that time is for the amount of services rendered for Christ's sake. That's it. Absolutely NO condemnation. No mention of our sins, because Christ disposed of our sins once and for all when He died. He has no intention of addressing them again.
The 1,000 year reign of Christ takes place right here on earth, not from Heaven. And those that died in Christ accompany Him back to earth from Heaven to reign with Him when He ends the Battle of Armageddon, and begins His Kingdom.
Those that choose to die
with their sin, (
our choice not God's) go straight to the area where that rich man still thirsts and await along with him, the White Throne Judgement.
There will be another battle at the end of Christ's 1,000 year reign and that is when "Hell" is emptied out and the White throne judgement takes place. And then evil is dealt with once and for all, Heaven descends to earth, for eternity and the earth is revamped, again, back to the Garden it was meant to be.
God created the Lake of Fire for Satan and His evil spirits. He gives us every opportunity to avoid that pit but leaves our eternal location strictly to us. We chose our eternity.