Life After Death - Resurrection & Heaven and Hell
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- Created on: 10-03-16 19:41
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- Life After death
- Reincarnation
- The soul at death migrates from the dying body into a new body
- Each lifetime a soul is trying to reach perfection when it reaches this= soul reborn and enter a state of bliss.
- Judaism - there isn't any single firm teaching
- not a prominent theme in Jewish Scriptures but there are passages about the 'last days' in which there is a clear reference to resurrection.
- Book of Daniel - suggestibility written for Jews facing persecution. gave reason to remain faithful because there's life after death
- Heaven and Hell
- Catholicism
- Purgatory, heaven and hell "in my fathers house there are many rooms" (John 14.2)
- Once souls have gone through purgatory they are ready to be united with a resurrection body
- Thomas Aquinas
- Protestantism
- believe in the immortality of the soul, their ideas about life and death are more varied
- some argue the resurrection is a spiritual event but others say there is a physical body
- believe in the immortality of the soul, their ideas about life and death are more varied
- Hell doesn't promote the idea of a loving God
- Images of Hell are a form of negative reinforcement scaremongering
- Catholicism
- Reincarnation
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