divine judgment
God's final decision
Divine judgment is the concept of God or gods evaluating and ruling on human conduct, typically with consequences of reward or punishment.
In religious contexts, it often refers to a final reckoning after death or at the end of time: The preacher warned of divine judgment awaiting sinners.
The phrase can also describe catastrophic events interpreted as God's response to human wickedness: Some called the flood divine judgment on the city.
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
- eschatologyStudy of ultimate destiny
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
- wrath of GodSupreme being's anger
- eternal damnationEverlasting punishment after death
karma · theodicy · apocalypse · end times · last days · second coming · verdict · repentance · prophecy · purgatory · destiny · grace · fate · heaven · pearly gates · afterlife · rapture · tribulation
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
- UnderworldHades, Tartarus, netherworld, Sheol, Styx
- biblical themescreation, messiah, covenant, salvation, redemption
- Religious Beliefsmonotheism, polytheism, pantheism, trinity, original sin
- Afterlife ArtSistine Chapel, Inferno, Paradise, heaven, hell
- apocalypseapocalypse, Armageddon, end times, rapture, tribulation
divine judgmentcivil law
Law governing private disputes
civil judgment · legal judgment · judicial ruling · mob justice · court ruling
divine judgmentmoral relativism
Values vary by context
amorality · nihilism · self-forgiveness · cosmic indifference
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