Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 1.3L1

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[From the previous blog, God judges the deceased person.

In order to hold ‘him’ responsible, God reifies the soul as a person.  Consciencespecified1 and the person’s trained dispositions1 (the person’s soul) re-animate a body (site of action), constituting a person. In that re-animation, the person is judged.

What does that mean?

First, consider that, at the time of Judgment, the thirdness of the intersecting nested form is lawessential3 (since acceptance or denial are no longer pertinent) and thinkdivine3 (since any particular thinkgroup has passed away long before the Resurrection).

Second, consider the way that a normal context works.  In our everyday lives, “lawessential3 and thinkdivine3” bring “a body, the site of human action2” into relation with “the potential in one’s consciencespecified1 and trained (but still natural) dispositions1“.

Third, consider what these two points imply: A normal context judges as it brings the person into the realm of actuality.

This logic applies to everyday life and to any post-mortem existence for humans.  No matter what one imagines the constitution of existence after death, a judgment must occur, because the normal contexts of the afterlife are necessarily different than the normal contexts of everyday life.]