Death and the Afterlife
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- Death and the Afterlife
- Jesus' Eschatology + his Resurrection
- There are 2 distinctive features of Jesus' Resurrection
- 1. He was unrecognisable by his apostles
- 2. He ascended into heaven despite not being a spirit
- St Paul
- Argued if Christ hadn't risen, the preaching would have been useless
- Christianity depends on Jesus' Resurrection
- Heaven + Hell where places we go when judged by God
- The Rich Man and Lazarus
- The Parable of the Sheep and Goats
- Not judged on acts of faith alone but acts of service to others
- There are 2 distinctive features of Jesus' Resurrection
- Heaven
- Jesus
- God is the God of the living not the Dead
- RCC
- "Is the ultimate end" and "The state of supreme definitive happiness"
- Alternate def.
- It is God's Kingdom and unlike Earth
- Jesus
- Purgatory
- Can be seen as a state of hope
- Or a state of pain where sins are removed
- Became a physical place for believers in 12th Cent.
- It is a temporary place where sin is stripped away
- "He who comes to be saved, comes to be saved through a fire"- Origen
- Rejected by Protestants
- Described as a place of pain or as a metaphor for the souls greater awareness of the consequences of sin
- Hell
- Aquinas
- "Expelled for ever from the fellowship of saints and condemned to everlasting punishment"
- It is necessary because;
- Free will
- If it didn't matter how we acted on Earth w/o Hell
- Divine Justice
- W/o it God's justice would be meaningless
- Free will
- How can an all loving God send people to Hell?
- C.S Lewis- hell is a state of mind
- Aquinas
- Beatic Vision
- The nature of history is a mystery
- Presence of God's company
- We must change our idea of heaven as it far from human ideals of it
- Jesus' Eschatology + his Resurrection
- Heaven + Hell where places we go when judged by God
- The Rich Man and Lazarus
- The Parable of the Sheep and Goats
- Not judged on acts of faith alone but acts of service to others
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