Eschatological Beliefs of Judaism, Christianity & Islam

A comparative description of the "End World"

While Judaism, Christianity and Islam perceive numerous ethical and metaphysical issues from markedly divergent standpoints, they share several elements of faith. Aside from the commonalities that these religions share in their various attempts to explain mysteries of the human condition, they also share a concern with the destiny of Man and a belief that time and the world will cease one day, that there will be a consummation of history. In other words, Judaism, Christianity and Islam all share common eschatological beliefs. Among these beliefs are the belief in a final judgment, the belief in the establishment of a new earth, the belief in tribulation before the establishment of this new earth, and the belief in the eternal reign of a Messianic figure. These beliefs find different expression within the three faiths, and in some instances beliefs are diametrically opposed to one another, but in many essentials there is a common thread. Examining the various aspects of eschatological study will reveal these common threads and lead to the conclusion that, if the three religions do not correlate exactly regarding the concept of eternal life and what the "End World" will consist of, at least enough similarities exist to imply that much of humanity shares the general outlines of the end of history in common.

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ed. (2 Thess 2:9-12) Islam also has a tradition relating to the appearance of a deceiver in the end times that will cause suffering in the world and that will attempt to lead the righteous astray: And when the Word is fulfilled against the unjust, We shall produce from the earth a Beast to face them: he will speak to them, because that mankind did not believe with assurance in Our signs. (Qur'an 27. 82) These citations illustrate that Judaism, Christianity and Islam all teach uniformly about a great upheaval in society in the future, an upheaval that will herald the entering into eternal peace for those of humanity who are seen by God to be righteous, and eternal damnation to those seen by God as iniquitous. Both Judaism and Christianity address the question of life after death in their own ways. Some Christian traditions teach a general removal of all believers prior to the apocalypse and the parousia, a theological construct referred to as pre milennialism. Some Christian traditions teach that believers will have to endure the sufferings of the final days of history. This is teaching is called post-milennialism. Either construct holds that life continues after death, that the dead will resurrect unto either bliss o
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