DEATH AND THE AFTERLIFE Flashcards
Explain the Argument that HEAVEN is an ACTUAL PLACE
WORKED for RIGHTEOUSNESS, no more pain
AQUINAS - Heaven as a BEATIFIC VISION - Moment when we Come Face to Face with God ans Live in Happiness and Harmony with God For Ever.
Roman Catholics’ believe this Face to Face with God as well, Eternal Reward for Those who have Fully Chosen Christ and his ways
Protestants - Heaven Everlasting, not Eternal - place where people Live for the Rest of Time in the Presence of God, alongside Family and friends
Explain the Argument that HELL as an ACTUAL PLACE
focus on Punishment being Given to the Wicked Person who’s Sent there for Eternity. In REVLATION, the Image is ‘burning lake Fiery Sulphur’ - depicts place of Agony
RC CHURCH Believe that Hell is an ACTUAL PLACE, but Emphasises that the MAIN PUNISHMENT for Hell is an ALIENTATION FROM GOD . Those in Hell have Died in a State of Moral Sin.
CATHOLICS believe them MAIN PURPOSE of HELL is to GUIDE People to USING Their FREE WILL PROPERLY and God DOESN’T WISH to SEND us there.
If you Choose to Reject Him Persistently, they will Bring Themselves
Explain the Argument that HEAVEN as a SPIRITUAL STATE
is a NATURAL CONTINUATION of our SPIRITUAL JOURNEY After Death. IF the BODY ISN’T NEEDED in the Afterlife. and Souls Capture who we are, HEAVEN DOESN’T NEED a PLACE - State might be used as a Form of Existence rather than a place we go
Becomes UNDERSTOOD as the MOMENT our SOULS LEAVE our Bodies Behind TO BE WITH GOD in a Non-Physical Sense
Can be Argued this is More what JESUS DESCRIBE, idea of Physical added later by Paul
Explain the Argument that HELL is a SPIRITUAL STATE
the Re-emphasis on the Idea that Hell is the SEPARATION from God-SELF ALIENATION Led to Idea that Hell is Spiritual, not physical.
the idea that There’s NO NEED to be PUNISHED by FIRE as ALIENTATION from God would be PUNISHMENT ENOUGH.
Biblical & Medieval images are PRODUCTS OF THEIR TIME
TILLICH is a Theologian who Understood Hell as a Metaphor of Psychological Alienation
Explain the Argument that PURGATORY is a SPIRITUAL STATE
Catholics - state that EVERYONE GOES THROUGH, Interim state Between Death and Life in Heaven, CLEANSING of SIN BEFORE people are Fit to Live with God - Need for Punishment - Not Eternal Punishment
POPE GREGORY - ideas from Matthew’s Gospel - “every kind of Sin can be Forgiven…” - Understood this to mean that FORGIVENESS Doesn’t Only Happen During Life On Earth but also a POSSIBILITY AFTER DEATH, so said there MUST BE a TEMPORARY STATE AFTER DEATH Where People have OPPORTUNITY to be Forgiven of Sin
Explain the Argument that PURGATORY is a SPIRITUAL STATE
Catholics - state that EVERYONE GOES THROUGH, Interim state Between Death and Life in Heaven, CLEANSING of SIN BEFORE people are Fit to Live with God - Need for Punishment - Not Eternal Punishment
POPE GREGORY - ideas from Matthew’s Gospel - “every kind of Sin can be Forgiven…” - Understood this to mean that FORGIVENESS Doesn’t Only Happen During Life On Earth but also a POSSIBILITY AFTER DEATH, so said there MUST BE a TEMPORARY STATE AFTER DEATH Where People have OPPORTUNITY to be Forgiven of Sin
Explain the Argument that HEAVEN is a SYMBOL of a Person’s Spiritual and Moral Life on Earth
Heaven - Symbol Of Person’s Moral Life - IDEA is that PERSON who has been Worthy on Earth of Heaven has had Moments of Blissful Happiness = Both Personally and in their Interactions with Other People. Heaven then becomes a REPRESENTATION of the SUM of All POSITIVE MOMENTS in Someone’s LIFE
Explain the Argument that HELL is a SYMBOL of a Person’s Spiritual and Moral Life on Earth
SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION of the NEGATIVE ELEMENTS of SOMEONE’S LIFE. Some think that as LOVING GOD Wouldn’t Subject people to ETERNAL PUNISHMENT, Hell might be a Symbolic Representation that If we’re Judged Unworthy to Go to Heaven, We’ll be Annihilated and Our Existence will Not Continue after Bodily Death
Some think of it as 2nd Death as the Passage in REVELATION 21:8 where being Cast into the Pit of Fire is Specially Called ‘The Second Death’
Explain the Argument that HELL is a SYMBOL of a Person’s Spiritual and Moral Life on Earth
SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION of the NEGATIVE ELEMENTS of SOMEONE’S LIFE. Some think that as LOVING GOD Wouldn’t Subject people to ETERNAL PUNISHMENT, Hell might be a Symbolic Representation that If we’re Judged Unworthy to Go to Heaven, We’ll be Annihilated and Our Existence will Not Continue after Bodily Death
Some think of it as 2nd Death as the Passage in REVELATION 21:8 where being Cast into the Pit of Fire is Specially Called ‘The Second Death’
Explain the Argument that HELL is a SYMBOL of a Person’s Spiritual and Moral Life on Earth
SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION of the NEGATIVE ELEMENTS of SOMEONE’S LIFE. Some think that as LOVING GOD Wouldn’t Subject people to ETERNAL PUNISHMENT, Hell might be a Symbolic Representation that If we’re Judged Unworthy to Go to Heaven, We’ll be Annihilated and Our Existence will Not Continue after Bodily Death
Some think of it as 2nd Death as the Passage in REVELATION 21:8 where being Cast into the Pit of Fire is Specially Called ‘The Second Death’
Explain the Argument that PURGATORY is a SYMBOL of a Person’s Spiritual and Moral Life on Earth
Catholic Theologian - KARL RAHNER - argued that PUGATORY Shouldn’t be Understood as a Horrible Place But as METAPHOR for the SOUL’S GREATER AWARENESS OF the CONSEQUENCES of SIN, especially the Individual Own’s Sin, in the Time Between Death and The Last Judgement
Explain the Argument that HEAVEN is a SYMBOL of a Person’s Spiritual and Moral Life on Earth
View that ONLY SOME PEOPLE are CHOSEN to be SAVED
Originally came From AUGUSTINE, said that ORIGINAL SIN had CREATED such a HOLD on HUMANITY that GOD’S GRACE is REQUIRED for Salvation - and God’s grace must be Given By God so God is In Control of the Decision
might have refereed to Matthew 22:14 - “Many are Invited but Few are Chosen”
What is LIMITED ELECTION and where Originally Come From
View that ONLY SOME People are CHOSEN to be SAVED
ORGINALLY from AUGUSTINE, said that ORIGINAL SIN had CREATED such a HOLD on HUMANITY that GOD’S GRACE is REQUIRED for SLAVATION - and God’s Grace must be Given by God so he’s In Control of the Decision
Might have Refereed to Matthew - “Many are Invited but Few are Chosen
EXPLAIN what CALVIN thought about LIMITED ELECTION
ideas Based on Belief in the UNSHAKEABLE SOVEREIGNTY of God. God is an ABSOLOUTE CONTROL Over Everything that happens - Choices we Make and therefore the Eternal Life we Enter Into, Good or Bad (DOUBLE PREDESTINATION) , he Knows Already Who would and Wouldn’t be Saved
Thought we SHOULDN’T PRESUME to WORK OUT the WILL of GOD; he Knows Our Limitations. We MUST BEHAVE AS IF ALL ARE CALLED, We Don’t Know Whom God has Chosen
What is UNLIMITED ELECTION
suggest that HEAVEN is AVALAIBLE to ALL , but Still Emphasises the Possibility of Not Saved. Idea comes from KARL BARTH who said:
- JESUS by being GOD-MADE Human was Both the One who ELECTS and also the One who IS ELECTED - means that ALL HUMANS may be SAVED as Jesus has Taken On Our human Form
- Choice God Made Isn’t the Choice of Who To Save, But the CHOCE of GOD COMING to EARTH AS JESUS.
- ALL people ELECTED through JESUS Taking on PUNISHMENT of DEATH
