Hello Father! Help explain the Savior's word (John 5:24) “and does not come to judgment”. Is it private or general? Save Christ God.
Hieromonk Job (Gumerov) answers:
To interpret this verse, you must cite it in full: Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.(John 5:24). The Lord says that the resurrection of the dead is taking place now, and many people are spiritually dead (Matthew 8:22; Rev. 3: 1). The Savior says that he who believes in Him will come to life (John 3: 14-18). Such a person passes from the realm of death to the realm of life, and therefore is freed from the judgment that every unbeliever brings upon himself by his unbelief: For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not condemned, but the unbeliever is already condemned, because he did not believe in the name of the Only Begotten Son of God(John 3: 17-18). The Lord will call everyone to the general judgment.
Vyacheslav asksViktor Belousov answers, 07/03/2008
Vyacheslav asks:"Greetings! I had some doubts about the differences in the Bible or inaccuracies for example Jesus says: Truly, truly, I say to you: he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life and does not come to judgment, but has passed from death to life. But Paul writes: We will all appear at the Judgment Seat of Christ. The question is: who should believe Jesus so that those who believe in Him or Paul do not come to the judgment, then that we will all come. "
Peace to you, Vyacheslav!
The entire Bible is built on paradoxes. It is only through these paradoxes that many biblical truths can be understood: mercy and judgment, divinity and humanity in Christ, law and grace, etc. Outwardly, they seem to be contradictory, but in fact they reveal the beauty of God as the Author of the Bible.
The answer to your question lies in yet another text of Scripture:
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
18 He who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 The judgment is that the light came into the world; but people loved darkness more than light, because their deeds were evil.
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Judgment is an encounter with God. After this meeting, separation occurs - either one way or the other. "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; but whoever does not believe will be condemned." ()- there are only 2 results of the court - saved or convicted. This decision can be either now or forever. But salvation is delivered only during this life, and eternal destruction - as a decision of the Court at the Second Coming.
The Judgment Seat of Christ, about which Paul speaks, is already the Second Coming of Christ. The one who chose Him and lives on earth with Him, fulfilling His will - already has the result of the trial on his hands, so to speak. There is no court for him, tk. the charge has already been dropped. And there is judgment for those who live on earth not according to God's principles ... They can be condemned, therefore it is important for them to remember about judgment. Paul writes this in this biblical text: " Why do you condemn your brother? Or you also, why do you humiliate your brother?We will all stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ. " When a person begins to judge others, he forgets that he can be judged himself.
Judge not, lest you be judged, for with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with what measure you mete, it will be measured to you also.
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This is a short answer to the biblical paradox of Christ's judgment for the believer.
Blessings,
Victor
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... we will all stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ (Rom. 14:10).
What do the words of Christ mean when he says that he who believes in me does not come to judgment?
John 5:24: Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Orthodoxy
To interpret this verse, it is necessary to bring it completely: Truly, truly, I say to you: he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life, and does not come to judgment, but has passed from death to life (John 5:24). The Lord says that the resurrection of the dead is taking place now, and many people are spiritually dead (Matthew 8:22; Rev. 3: 1). The Savior says that he who believes in Him will come to life (John 3: 14-18). Such a person passes from the realm of death to the realm of life, and therefore is freed from judgment, which every unbeliever incurs on himself through his unbelief: for God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not condemned, but the unbeliever is already condemned, because he did not believe in the name of the Only Begotten Son of God (John 3: 17-18). The Lord will call everyone to the general judgment. Hieromonk Job (Gumerov) http://www.pravoslavie.ru/answers/6951.htm
Protestants
Christ actually affirms here that both those who have done good and who have done evil will be brought before His judgment through the resurrection of the dead. But the believer in Him will not come to the judgment of condemnation, to the judgment where he can be condemned. Christ means the very last day of the existence of earth and heaven, when all people who have ever lived will be resurrected and will appear before the Lord for judgment. Where the righteousness of these people will be clarified before Him. There it will be possible to go to the court of conviction. Christ says that those who believe in Him do not come to that judgment when the Lord will find out your righteousness before Him, because through faith in Him, He has already given you His righteousness. Only faith must be sincere. At the judgment before Christ, it will not be your righteousness that will be ascertained, but the measure of your glory, in which you will abide in eternity. Those who have sincere faith in Jesus Christ receive not the resurrection of condemnation, not the judgment of condemnation, but the resurrection of life — the judgment of His mercy in which His life is. (http://segrjaduskoro.ucoz.com/)
Catholics
The Christian who unites his death with the death of Jesus sees death as a transition to Him and as an entry into eternal life. When the Church for the last time uttered the words of Christ's petition and forgiveness over a dying Christian, for the last time she sealed him with the strengthening anointing of oil and gave him Christ in the Holy Gifts as food for the path ahead, she speaks to him with affectionate confidence. Death puts an end to human life as a time open to the acceptance or rejection of the grace of God manifested in Christ. The New Testament speaks of judgment mainly in the perspective of the final meeting with Christ in His second coming, but many times it also declares immediate reward to everyone after death for his deeds and faith. The parable of poor Lazarus and the words of Christ on the Cross addressed to the prudent thief, as well as other texts of the New Testament561, speak of the ultimate fate of the soul562, which may vary from person to person. Each person receives eternal reward in his immortal soul from the moment of death at a private judgment, the essence of which is in his correlation to Christ, either through purification, or through direct entry into eternal joy, or through immediate damnation forever. with God and perfectly cleansed, always living with Christ. They are forever likened to God, because they see Him “as He is” (1 Jn 3: 2), face to face.
“By our apostolic authority, we determine that, according to the general advice of God, the souls of all saints (...) and all other faithful who died receiving Christ's Baptism, and in whom at the time of death there was nothing to cleanse (...) or else if there was or is something to cleanse, then when after their death they finish this cleansing, (...) even before the resurrection of their bodies and general judgment, from the time of the Ascension of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ into heaven, they have been, are and will remain in heaven , in the Kingdom of Heaven and in Heaven with Christ, accepted into the communion of holy angels. Since the time of the passion and death of the Lord Jesus Christ, they have seen and see the Divine being with an intuitive gaze and even face to face, without the mediation of any creature. "... Pope Benedict XII
The opinion of the common Christian
A lawyer has already been given. This is Jesus Christ. A person, having come to Jesus Christ through repentance and acceptance of the atoning sacrifice, then comes to the Judgment Seat of Christ. At this trial: judge- The God, prosecutor-prosecutor, of course, Satan, and advocate man - Jesus Christ.
The satanic prosecutor says that according to deeds, a person is supposed to die. Jesus says: he repented. “I redeemed him by dying on the cross. - I paid for it. "Justified" is the verdict of the judge of God.
A person is justified through repentance and the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The evil that was in him and in whose bondage the man was, is condemned. And this is how the separation happens light from darkness on earth (which will eventually acquire "a new look and a new heaven"). God's plan for the earth and all people is detach light from darkness to destroy all darkness, all evil. To destroy all darkness, it is necessary to destroy the source of this darkness and all evil: "those who do evil will be destroyed" (Psalms 36: 9). The source of evil is Satan and his two helpers: beast- the image of this world: "the whole world lies in evil." (1 John 5:19) and false prophet... After Jesus died and was resurrected, Satan was cast from heaven to earth, light and darkness in heaven were completely separated from each other, and the father of evil was cast from heaven.
"Woe to those who dwell on earth and on the sea! Because the devil has come down to you in great rage, knowing that he has little time left" (Rev 12:12.) And therefore it is no longer possible to say that God kills, because if in the Old Testament God was fully responsible for everything that happened on earth, now in the New Testament everything is clearly separated from each other and this separation e happens further, now on earth. Man, recognizing Jesus Christ as his Lord, thanks to the atoning sacrifice, is saved and freed from the darkness of Eden, the evil that entered man in the Garden of Eden as a result of the Fall, and the darkness that was in him is condemned.
What happened in the Old Testament according to the flesh, now in the New Testament happens according to the spirit, because the New Testament is the covenant of the Spirit: “He gave us the ability to be servants of the New Testament, not the letter, but the spirit, because the letter kills, and the spirit gives life ”(2 Cor. 3: 6) and the war goes on for ... the heart of man. And if in the Old Testament David in the psalm says: "A thousand will fall beside you and ten thousand at your right hand; but he will not come near you," then he speaks specifically about the Philistines, but in the New Testament this must be taken in spirit: unclean spirits will fall beside you. , not people, because; "Peace on earth, good will in men"! (Luke 2:14).
The harvest is the final separation of light from darkness and the condemnation of all darkness. All the evil that will be at the end of time at the Court of the Father. Where, in the end, only evil and the source of evil will be condemned, about which the great Origen also wrote.
Final Judgment of God's Judgment:
"And the beast was captured and with him a false prophet, who performed miracles before him, with which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image: both living were thrown into the lake of fire, burning with sulfur;" (Rev. 19:20) "The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever." (Rev. 20:10)
Topic: BELIEVERS IN JUDGMENT DOES NOT COME (John 5:24)
"24 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life." (John 5:24)
The assertion of I. Christ himself that whoever hears the word of Christ and believes in God who sent Christ will have life (eternal life) and will not go to judgment in peace!
On the other hand, we read:
"27 And as men are supposed to die one day, and then judgment, 28 so Christ, once offering Himself as a sacrifice to take up the sins of many, will appear a second time not [for the cleansing] of sin, but for those who wait for Him for salvation." (Hebrews 9: 27,28)
Here Sl. God says that a person first dies and then awaits him court. However, it immediately says that Christ will still appear “ for those who wait for Him for salvation. "
It becomes clear that in order to avoid judgment, one should listen to Christ and believe in the One who sent Him!
To more fully understand judgment in the light of the New Testament, one should read another passage of the Holy Scriptures.
“26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes. 27 Therefore, whoever eats this bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will be guilty against the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a man test himself, and thus let him eat of this bread and drink from this cup. 29 For whoever eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not considering the body of the Lord. 30 Because of this, many of you are weak and sick, and many die. 31 For if we judged ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned in peace. " (1 Corinthians 11: 26-32)
I draw your attention to: " 31 For if we judged ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned in peace. " In addition to the fact that we must listen to Christ and believe in Him who sent Him, we must still judge ourselves during the supper, otherwise the Lord himself will judge us during the supper; the supper is the basis for us to avoid judgment in peace! It turns out that if a person is deprived of the supper, then he is doomed to be judged in peace!
Of course, we understand that this is true for a person who celebrates the supper with his heart (mind) and who receives the supper as we have just made out: the supper is a person's test of his conscience before the Lord! For nothing unclean will enter the Kingdom of God! If a person does not understand what the Lord's supper is, then no test of conscience before God occurs, which means there is no punishment for sin from the Lord, such a person goes to judgment in peace.
Easter javl. a type of the Lord's supper and protected Israel in Egypt from the destroyer angel. If someone then did Easter not according to the rules (for example: he did not anoint the doorposts with the blood of a lamb), then there was no protection against such Easter from the destroyer angel! Likewise, if we celebrate our Easter, our supper incorrectly, then we lose the protective power of the blood of Christ and doom ourselves to judgment in peace!
Amen, Amen, I say to you, as if you listen to My word and believe Him who sent Me to have an eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but will pass from death to your stomach
St. Cyril of Alexandria
"Amen, amen, I say to you, as listen to My word and believe Him who sent Me have an eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but will pass from death into the belly." Having already shown enough in the preceding words that the unfortunate Jews do not sin against the Son alone, daring to reprove Him both for the words with which He taught them and for the deeds that He did with them, but through their ignorance they turn out to be criminals and against Himself Father and, desiring by means of His words to clothe their audacity with fear and persuade them to live more in accordance with the hope for the future, he finally catches them to good obedience. And again he made a reasoning about this not without art. Since he knew that the Jews were still sick and were still offended in relation to Him, he again attaches faith to the person of God and the Father, not as placing Himself outside, but as because of the identity of the essence of the Honored One and in the Father. And about believers, he claims that they will not only be partakers of eternal life, but will also avoid danger from judgment, obviously as being justified, inspiring fear in conjunction with hope. This structure of speech was more effective and convincing for the audience.
Interpretation of the Gospel of John. Book II.
Venerable Macarius the Great
And as the Lord, having taken [His] body, ascended the mountain and sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in the highest, so now believers and souls worthy of God pass and will pass into His Kingdom, since He gives birth to them from above with His Spirit, as the Lord says: Whoever believes in him who sent me has passed from death to life... For the true believers, while [still] on earth, serve the Lord in the higher heavens. And He, sitting grief on the throne of His majesty, descends to the valley, resting on the souls of the saints, as if on thrones. After all, they are members, and His Body is the whole Church of the saints; and He is the Head of this Church. As one soul dwells in the whole body and all members of the body are governed by it, so all the saints live in the Spirit of the Divine and are governed by Him. And each member lives in the Hypostasis [Spirit] and God's Soul.
Collection of Type II Manuscripts. Conversation 52
Because the mind and understanding of Christians are always busy with philosophizing about the heavenly, through the communion and communion of the Holy Spirit they contemplate eternal blessings; because they are born again from God; in reality and power itself they were vouchsafed to become children of God; by many long-term feats and labors they have achieved constancy, firmness, serenity and peace, do not dissipate and are not worried by fickle and vain thoughts: that is by this they are the highest and better than the world; because their mind and spiritual sophistication are in the peace of Christ and in the love of the Spirit, just as the Lord, speaking about such, said that they have passed away " from death in the stomach».
Collection of Type II Manuscripts. Conversation 5.
True death is hidden within, in the heart; and man is mortified internally. Therefore, if someone passed in secret " from death in the stomach"; then truly he lives forever and does not die. Even if their bodies are destroyed for a while; then, because they are sanctified, they will rise with glory. Why, the dormition of the Saints is called a dream.
Word 1. About keeping the heart.
Blzh. Theophylact Bulgarian
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Euthymius Zigaben
Amen, Amen, I say to you, as if you listen to My word and believe Him who sent Me to have an eternal belly
Again, with a wise purpose, Jesus Christ did not say: believer in me so as not to seem conceited, but: believer in him that sent me so that it may seem that He is speaking not from Himself, but from Him who sent Him, and so that, having believed these words, they would believe through this also in Him who sent Him. This is how beneficial it is for the sublime to speak even derogatoryly.
And he will not come to court
to condemnation for punishment, since the believer in His words, of course, also observes them; therefore, he who does not keep His words, does not believe them. Let us be afraid also, who do not keep the commandments of God: our place will be with unbelievers. Find also in the third chapter (v. 18) the saying: believe in Him will not be condemned.
but will pass from death to the stomach
Death means death not here, but there, i.e. punishment, as well as by life means bliss there. Moving from unbelief to faith, he also passed from punishing unbelievers to the bliss of believers.
A.P. Lopukhin
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
The resurrection of the dead is partly accomplished by Christ even now. There are many people spiritually dead (Matthew 8:22; Rev. 3: 1). About them, Christ said earlier that He was sent to revive them (John 3: 14-18, 4: 10-14: 12). Now Christ says that they are not only figuratively dead, but in fact they are in a state of death and only then can they rise from this mortal sleep when they believe in Christ and follow Him. Obviously, Christ does not distinguish between bodily and spiritual death: an abnormal mental and physical state is the same as bodily death plunges a person into. On the other hand, eternal life already here, on earth, is possessed by the one who accepted the teaching of Christ with faith, and this person preserves this life forever (cf. John 4:14). From the realm of death, a person thus passes into the realm of life, and by virtue of this he is freed from all judgment ( "To the court"- εἰς κρίσιν, without an article) and from the judgment that the unbeliever incurs on himself by his unbelief (John 3:18), and from the last judgment, to which all mankind will be subjected after the resurrection of the dead (verse 29). However, the release from the last judgment cannot be understood as a complete release from the obligation to appear at the last Last Judgment. No, all people, including believers, will be judged (Matthew 25: 33-34), but for the righteous who believe in Christ, this judgment will not have such a horrifying meaning as it will have for unbelievers
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