Death and the afterlife OCR Theology

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  • Death and the Afterlife
    • Heaven
      • no more suffering, no pain and no death - sin removed
      • the faithful go to heaven after death
      • diff dimension to this world
      • bernard williams - Is an eternity in heaven desirable??
    • Hell
      • when a person is seperated from God for eternity
      • place of eternal pain and punishment
      • hell is seen as being below the physical world
      • how can hell be compatible with an omnibenevolent God
      • David Hume - Hell calls Gods justice into question - a finite sin can never deserve an infinite sin
    • Purgatory
      • catholic teaching
      • forgiveness is also possible after death
      • a state where the soul is purged - made clean/ purified
      • either described as a place of pain or as a metaphor for the souls greater awareness of the consequences of sin
      • self-inflicted pain
      • protestants reject
    • Election
      • limited election
        • only a few christians will be saved
      • unlimited election
        • all people are called to salvation but not all are saved
      • universalist belief
        • all people will be saved
    • Heaven hell + purgatory are PLACES where people go after death and experience either happinness, punishment or purification
    • They're not places they are SPIRITUAL STATES that a person experiences on their spiritual journey after death
    • They're symbols of a persons SPIRITUAL and MORAL LIFE on earth and not places or states after death

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