LAST JUDGEMENT DAY
Article about What really happens on Judgement Day. How the soul is judged after death and what happens on the Judgement Day according to Spiritualists. Judging the soul in the afterlife. If you would like to find out more about the topic then read Craig Hamilton-Parker's books
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Judgment Day
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.--Daniel 12:2
 A great many cultures believe that you will be judged in the afterlife. Many also believe that the fates of the morally good and morally bad will take a road to Heaven or Hell. References to the judgment of the dead can be found in the works of Plato, who mentions the judgment of the dead by three figures at the conclusion of Gordias. Many traditions say that you will be brought before a divine courtroom where your good and evil deeds on earth with be judged.
If you are a Moslem, you may believe that your judgment begins in the tomb. You will be visited by two angels called Munkar and Nakir who will sit you up and ask you questions of faith. You will also be asked about the uniqueness of God and the identity of Muhammad. Get the answers correct and you will be left alone to lie in the grave until the day of the Resurrection of the Dead and the Day of Judgment. On this day you will rejoin your physical body and be assigned eternal life either in paradise or hell. It has been suggested that the first tombstones were placed on graves to keep the dead in!
Similar ideas can be found in many other Middle Eastern religions. Although the first authors of the Hebrew Bible did not teach that the human soul would survive death, there has arisen the idea that your deeds are recorded, wrongdoers will be punished, and the righteous will be resurrected. A common biblical expression for death is to go down to she’ol, a term taken to mean an underworld. This may be simply an expression for the grave and not a reference to an actual afterlife.
In common with Islam, the Jews believe that you have to wait for the Day of Resurrection before you will reap your reward for your good deeds. However, most Christians believe that the judgment of your soul takes place immediately after death. Depending on your righteousness you go either to Heaven or to Hell or, in some Christian churches, to purgatory.
Again we can find similar ideas in the East. Many people from the Far East believe that your soul will bypass the afterlife completely and the weight of your accumulated karma will decide if you are reborn on earth in good or bad circumstances. However, the ancient Vedic texts of India say that you will be judged by King Yama who knows how to recognize liars. In Chinese Mahayana Buddhism, it is Yen-lo Wang who sits in judgment, and in Japan it is Enma-o.
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