Issues surrounding life after death
Mind map on issues around life after death including divine election, problem of evil and disembodied existence
- Created by: JMitch
- Created on: 28-05-13 12:02
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- Issues Surrounding Live after Death
- Problem of Evil
- Theodicies rely on notion of free will and justification of evil by rewards after-life
- Augustinian Theodicy
- God can allow evil because of Human Sin
- Resurrection of Jesus allows the potential for Human redemption
- Suggests eternal Hell - But is eternal damnation immoral for a finite sin
- Irenaen Theodicy
- Born immature so pain in life allows growth to full potential
- Hick suggest that God as all loving will save everyone
- But Swinburne argued ultimate freedom required freedom to eternally damn oneself
- Divine Election
- General Christian teachings are against Predestination
- 'No one is predestined to Hell' (Catholic Catechism)
- Some believe that God decides who will be in God's Elect
- Reference to 144,000 who will be saved from book of revelations
- Divine election is not the same as predestination - but does this remove the significance of free will
- Belief held by Calvanist, some Lutherans
- General Christian teachings are against Predestination
- Disembodied Existence
- Identity would be in mind or soul for this to be the case
- H.H. Price suggests that existence would be in a mental world where dreams and perceptions could be shared with others
- But Hick argues this is just a individual world of desires
- NDEs are evidence for disembodied existence
- Susan Blackmore dismisses these as chemical reactions in a dying brain
- Telepathy and ESPs suggest a mental world and some people can communicate with this world
- Problem of Evil
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