Judgement Day
It is tough to comprehend or to logic the details about Judgment, forgiveness, reward, eternal heaven, or hell after death. When people of faith can not explain or understand the concept of Judgment, they easily say, "I don't know," or "I am not God."
I believe the idea of Judgment Day has started thousands of years ago with the first Ancient Egyptian religions before the Abrahamic based faiths of Jewdisim, Christianity or Islam. Don't forget Moses began the Jewish faith in Egypt.
On Judgement day, The Pharoh goes through several tests and critical judgments. His heart is weighed against a feather, and his deeds are measured. If his sins are more than his good deeds, his heart will weight more, and he goes to a place to be tortured by a beast for eternity. If his good deeds are more, he passes to spend eternal life with his loved ones in a beautiful garden like Adam's paradise.
The reasoning and the details of judgment and reward though vary significantly from culture to culture and religion to another even in the same religion over time. However, the main idea is the same.
The interesting thing is, one goes to hell for a deed according to one religion but goes to heaven for the same deed according to another religion or according to a different sect within the same religion. In heaven, millions of Jews are in the arms of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, billions of Christians are in the presence of Jesus, and billions of Muslims are eating drinking and having sex with virgins and others. For example, Jews go to heaven for not eating pork, Christians for not having sex, and Muslims for killing everyone else.
What difference does it make what the truth is, if you are the only one telling the truth and billions around you don't believe it? They will believe that you are wrong and or lying? Unfortunately, a lie could easily be the truth if enough people believed it. Men used these ideas for own gain and control of others. The fact is no one that we know personally have been to heaven and came back to tell us what happens there. Even if someone thinks he or she did, there is considerable doubt about what their brain may have depicted when under severe hypoxic encephalopathy.
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