Some critics (usually Evangelical Protestants) take umbrage with the fact that, according to Brigham Young and other Latter-day Saints (e.g., JOD 7:289) Joseph Smith will play a role (albeit, subordinate to Jesus) in the final judgement of those who lived in this dispensation. For a discussion, see
Interestingly, Reformed theologian William
Hendriksen (1900-1982) also taught that believers will play, not a merely passive,
but active role in the final judgement, and even appealed to texts such
as 1 Cor 6:2-3 that LDS apologists also appeal to:
Who Will Be
Associated with Him in This Final Judgement?
From such passages as
Matthew 13:41, 42; 24:31; 25:31; II Thessalonians 1:7, 8; and Revelation
14:17-20 it is evident that the angels will be associated with Christ in the
judgment. They will, for example, gather the wicked before the judgement-throne
and will “cast them into the furnace of fire.” They will certainly also stake
part in welcoming the Bride (the Church) as she does forth to meet the
Bridegroom (Christ).
It also appears from
Psalm 149:5-9 and I Corinthians 6:2, 3 that believers will have an active
share in the work of judging. At any rate, they will do so in the
sense of praising Christ’s righteous judgements (Revelation 15:3, 4). (William
Hendriksen, The Bible and the Life Hereafter [Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker
Books, 1959], 186, emphasis added)