The name given to John Hick's theory that God can recreate an exact copy of us in the afterlife
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Resurrection
The belief in an Afterlife that involves the embodied existence of individuals
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Purgatory
A state or place where souls are purged or purified before entering heaven
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Beatific Vision
The immeiate sight and vision of God in heaven
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Akhira
Literally, the hereafter, everlasting life after death
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Reincarnation
The belief that, after death, or soul lives again in another embodied form
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Transmigration
A word used of the soul's passage or journey to another body after death
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Karma
The principle of actions, deeds, and effects, that our actions in this life affect the next. Regarded as law of the universe
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Brahman
God, or the absolute, in hinduism
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Maya
The illusion or the unreal world of seperate consciousness
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Atman
A word used to describe the soul or "principle of life". All forms of life have Atman
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Monotheistic
The belief in the existence of one God. For instance in judiaism, christianty and islam
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Nibbana
The state of being free of suffering and the cycle of rebirth
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Moksha
Literally meaning "release" or "liberation" in hinduism this rfers to the final escape from the continuous cycle of death and rebirth, which is known as samsara
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Disembodied existence
The idea that we are able to exist in some form without our bodies
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Card 2
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The belief in an Afterlife that involves the embodied existence of individuals
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Resurrection
Card 3
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A state or place where souls are purged or purified before entering heaven
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Card 4
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The immeiate sight and vision of God in heaven
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Card 5
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Literally, the hereafter, everlasting life after death
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