When we encounter God in death, we will for the first time recognize with full clarity who we really are. God has no need to sit in judgment on us, to harangue us in human judges, lecture the accused. God has no need to tell us on this and that point you were a miserable failure. I have this to Mark against you. Here are your sins, I have to condemn you.
There will be no judgment in that sense. In our encounter with the holy God, our eyes will be open to behold our own selves. We will know who we are. We ourselves will judge and condemn the evil in ourselves. The encounter with God will become our own judgment of ourselves.
Is This All There Is? page 152
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