Christian Teaching About The Afterlife

Question 1

Christians reject the idea of ? and Plato’s ideas that the soul and the body could part company (? existence).

Answer 1

Reincarnation.

Disembodied.

Question 2

Christian teaching is that life after death will take the form of ?

Answer 2

Resurrection.

Question 3

In the book of Genesis, the death of ? is recorded: “Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age…and he was gathered to his ?”. This is interesting because the intriguing last phrase hints at the idea of an ?

Answer 3

Abraham.
People.
Afterlife.

Question 4

In the apocalyptic book of ?, there’s a prophecy about the end of time where the writer says: “? who sleep in the dust of the earth will ?: some to everlasting life”.

Answer 4

Daniel.
Multitudes.
Awake.

Question 5

In this life, people suffer, sometimes because of their ? to God. Therefore, a God of ? and justice must make it possible for those to be rewarded after ?

Answer 5

Faithfulness.
Love.
Death.

Question 6

In the Bible, ideas about life after death become more prominent in the ? ?

Answer 6

New Testament.

Question 7

The ? were distinctive in their belief in resurrection while the ? taught that there was no life after death.

Answer 7

Pharisees.

Sadducees.

Question 8

The ancient ? also had a considerable influence on Christian ideas about life after ?

Answer 8

Greeks.

Death.

Question 9

The ? accounts make it clear that Jesus was physically present, after his death, in a way that could be ? by the senses of those who were there. Most Christians believe that Jesus continued to live in the transformed ? body.

Answer 9

Gospel.
Experienced.
Spiritual.

Question 10

In 1 Corinthians ?, Paul was adamant that Christ had risen from the dead, and took this to be the central fact of ? faith.

Answer 10

15.

Christian.

Question 11

Paul uses the metaphor of a seed in an attempt to explain how ? after ? can be understood: “What you sow doesn’t come to life unless it ?”.

Answer 11

Life.
Death.
Dies.

Question 12

Belief in the physical resurrection of the body is central to Christian ? but it raises some logical ?

Answer 12

Doctrine.

Logical.

Question 13

In 2 Corinthians ?, a metaphor is used: “If the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a ? from God, an eternal house in ?”.

Answer 13

5.
Building.
Heaven.

Question 14

There are ? ideas central to the Christian understanding of life after death. Christians believe the:

1) Resurrection will involve a ? life.
2) Resurrected person will be the same as the one who ?
3) Life after death will be a miracle given by God, not just a ? process.

Answer 14

Three.
Bodily.
Died.
Natural.