What is The Meaning of Condemnation According to The New Testament?

What is The Meaning of Condemnation According to The New Testament?

The Ancient Egyptian Pharaonic doctrine preceded Judaism in codifying the idea of reckoning and condemnation. Judaism took this idea from the ancient Egyptians and handed it over to the rest of the Middle Eastern religions.

The Pharaonic Jewish heritage explained condemnation as holding a person accountable for his actions in his life, followed by eternal punishment. The idea of reckoning does not exist in the Gospel. But condemnation in the New Testament is the confrontation with the true Light by which it returns to the man at once everything he has done with his free will, good or evil, i.e., he reaps what he sows.

Therefore, condemnation in Christianity is the appearance and revelation of the eternal Light, the incarnated Son Jesus Christ, who exposed the darkness, but people loved the darkness more than the Light because their deeds were evil “And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.” (John3:19-20).

According to the Gospel, condemnation is not the product of reckoning people over their actions, but it is the automatic cause of the confrontation between the Light, i.e., Jesus Christ, and the darkness of evil that people loved and chose. Condemnation on the last day is caused by the second coming of Jesus in His glory and the fullness of the revelation of His Light eternally and infinitely. So those who loved darkness have no share in the eternal light but will remain in the darkness they loved, in the grip of death, and the hell of the king of death, I.e., Satan, and this is the cause of their eternal torment and destruction. While the splendor of Jesus’ light and glory will change those who are from light to the image of His glory and be in communion with Him in the Heavenly Father’s house “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:1-2.).