2. Life after death - Traditional aspects of the Afterlife
- Created by: Alasdair
- Created on: 31-05-17 09:56
View mindmap
- Key aspects of Traditional Views of an afterlife
- Key aspects
- Reward/punishment
- Eternal
- Personal Identity must be preserved
- Embodied
- Jesus' reference to heaven seeming physical 'in my father's house...' Sheep + Goats
- Depictions of Heaven and Hell seem very physical
- Revelations give a vivid depiction of a physical Hell - 'fiery lake of sulphur'
- Genesis - Jacob's ladder
- Creed - talk about resurrection of the dead - monism
- BUT Jesus's story about marriage implies the afterlife will NOT be more of the same - we are transformed
- Disembodied
- Paul - Heaven with God not necessarily a place
- What sort of existence after death do Xns look for?
- Traditionally heaven and hell are depicted as physical places
- Story of the Sheep and Goats
- "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink..."
- Story of the Sheep and Goats
- However, there are other suggestions that afterlife may not be entirely physical
- Jesus tells Sadducees who are trying to catch him out:
- "At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven."
- Jesus tells Sadducees who are trying to catch him out:
- What can we glean from the resurrection story?
- Only surface seems clear Christ physically rose from grave
- Women who went to anoint dead body saw and spoke to risen Christ
- Stone in front of tomb has been moved suggesting this is no ghostly apparition
- In John's gospel burial cloth is neatly folded
- In John's Thomas is offered to put his fingers in Jesus's wounds
- Jesus eats with 2 disciples when he walks with them as they go to Emmaus:
- 'When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognised him...'
- Only surface seems clear Christ physically rose from grave
- Traditionally heaven and hell are depicted as physical places
- Key aspects
Comments
No comments have yet been made