1.10 - Heaven and Hell Flashcards
What are the two outcomes of Judgement?
A Christian can either spend eternity in heaven with God, or they can suffer in Hell forever with Satan.
what do Catholics believe in as well as Heaven and Hell?
Purgatory
What is Purgatory?
The catholic religious idea of a sort of waiting room between Heaven and Hell where the souls of Christians wait to receive their place in Heaven.
What do traditional paintings of heaven show?
They show it as beyond the clouds and where God sits on a huge throne, surveying the Earth with angels flying around.
It is seen as a place of what?
Peace, Joy, Freedom from pain and a chance to be with passed away friends and family.
Whether this a _________ experience or a ________ experience is unclear
Spiritual or Physical
Who do some Christians believe can get into Heaven?
Only those who believe in Jesus
Others think what?
Heaven is reserved for Christians and other people in general who have lived good lives which God likes.
Others believe what?
It is for all those who call themselves Christians, regardless of how they live their lives. They think the act of being baptised is enough as well.
All Christians believe God will do what?
Forgive sins which will enable Christians to approach His presence.
What does the Parable of the sheep and the goats teach?
Heaven is a reward for both faith and good deeds - only having or doing one is not sufficient.
What is a more modern and less literal view of Heaven?
That it is a spiritual existence of peace and happiness in the eternal presence of God.
Hell is seen as what?
The opposite of Heaven
It is a state of existence without what?
Without God, peace and Joy.
It is a place of eternal ____
Suffering, terror, fire and torture ruled by the Devil.
It is pictured as ____
A fiery pit somewhere beneath the Earth
This leaves the Question whether who goes to Hell?
Non-Christians. This is because it is a place without God so non-believers might go there.
Why is the idea of Hell controversial?
People question whether eternal torment and pain.
