death and the afterlife Flashcards

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sheol

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afterlife for jews in where all souls go after death of the body
-greek Hades

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particular judgment

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refers to gods judgment immediatly after death

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general judgment

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gods judgment at the end of time

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gehenna

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referred to jesus as place of fire sinners are sent to

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state

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non physical ethereal soul existence

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new earth

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view of heaven that end of time god will restore earth to pre fall state where resurrected bodies of right will live forever

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the rich man and lazarus

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-rich man igonred beggar lazarus and was sent to hell while lazarus went to heaven
-rich man asked abraham for comfort and was denied

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take aways from rich mana and lazarus parable

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rich man in hell before his family showing particular judgment
-heaven and hell shown as eternal physical places since rich man couldnt leave to dip his finger in cool water
-unlimited electron suggested- those who do bad go hell
-passage evidence against heaven as new earth, rich man wanted to warn his family still on earth

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rich man and lazarus about sheol not heaven or hell argument

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-story only mentions beggar carried by angels to bosom of abraham
-jewish theology- separate places in sheol
-right to abraham and wrong in bad place
-sheol not correctly translated
-when jesus spoke of fire he said gehenna

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luther- rich man and lazarus story just a parable

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-parable which symbolizes state of conscience after we do good or bad
-torment symbol for rich mans conscience
-rich man and cool water- symbolic for conscience torment
-resurrection doesnt take place until end of time so not literal

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afterlife as a physical reality

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pronounced culturally during medieval period
-dantes divine comedy, descriptions of heaven, hell and purgatory
-physical view of afterlife reflected extreme versions of medieval life on earth, torture and feasting common

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paul on physical resurrection

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-paul calls resurrection of jesus first fruits, first after which ours will follow, paul claims jesus saved us from our sinful state
-when we rise we have better body
-flesh and blood cannot inherit kingdom of god- well change
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pauls analogy of tents

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-moral natural bodies like tents which are heavy burden but when jesus returns the dead and give them immortal spiritual bodies
-immortality = heaven and hell eternal

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augustine and physical resurrection

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-earthly bodies being raised in flesh in exalted form more believable than our spirit joined with those sinful earthly bodies
-resurrected bodies must be physical since christs was
-showed hope for all christians that they would be resurrected

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ressurrection as spiritual

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-jesus appeared to disciples after he rose from dead
-he could disappear and appear at will- spiritual not physical
-our resurrection non physical to and after life non physical
-st paul says future bodies spiritual

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argument against resurrection being spiritual

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-jesus physical body gone upon his resurrection, shows he was raised physically. suggests it was his physical body that was resurrected but perfected form
-pauls description of resurrected body as spiritual and other spiritual earthly form was non physical

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17
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idea of new earth and physical afterlife

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-idea that heaven is a future perfected state of earth,
-after final judgment resurrected bodies of right will have eternal life there. suggestive of physical resurrection and physical afterlife
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N T Wright

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-argues heaven as new earth by pointing to sermon on mount where jesus says, your kingdom come your will be done as earth it is in heaven
-argues this means kingdom of heaven soverign tule of heaven coming to earth

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pentinent thief against new earth

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-a theif was cruficied nezt to jesus
-he was remorseful for his actions
-jesus said today you will be in paradise with me
-heaven existed at that time and isnt future state of earth
-particular judgment immediately after death
-those who repent saved- unlimited election

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st paul on presence with christ after death

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-letter to philippians
-immediately after death there will be presence with christ ( particular judgment )
-paul spoke clearly of resurrection so not trying to replace general judgment- in addition to

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N T Wright against paul letter to phillipians

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-john 14 and luke 23- have verses of with me in paradise
-none of them mention psyche
-if early christians wanted to day part that lives on they should have
-western theology to heavily influenced by platos view of soul despite being rejected by jewish
-christians wrong in saying soul means eternal going on
-soul in gospel closer to nephesh- living god breathed creature

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Docetism and spiritual resurrection

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-jesus was spiritually resurrected in non physical body which only had appearance of being physical
-influence from plato to believe pure mentality spiritually higher and closer to perfected being than physical matter
-didint accept divine being could have a physical human body
-docetism antitrinatarian
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after life only eternal if they are places or states- not so symbolic or psychological

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liberal view of bible result of human mind and not gods word
-scriptures revealed written by witnesses
-means depictions of afterlife in bible symbolic rather literal
-if we behave badly psychology effect badly

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argument against liberal view of bible for symbolic afterlife

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-difficult to see how it could grant authority to bible if it comes from human minds
-opens everyone up to int.
-doesnt provide stable theology
-to much freedom leads to disunified chaos

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purgatory

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-Catholic church teaching
-place of temporary punishment for those who have died after committing venial sins but havent confessed
-we can help sould be purified during purgatory by praying for them

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biblical basis for purgatory

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-it is holy and wholesome to pray for dead, that they may be loosed form their sins- 2 maccabbes 12
-cant pray for someone in heaven in hell so part of afterlife where you can pray for dead

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biblical evidence against purgatory

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parable of sheep and goats
-no third middle option for those inbetween
-ecclesiastes- for the living know they will die but the dead know nothing - how are the dead to pay of their sins in purgatory if they know nothing

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moral argument for purgatory existing

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-unjust for someone to go to hell for a venial sin
-seems to conflict gods justice to allow someone sinful into heaven
-place of purgatory to cleanse minor sins to enter heaven
-best moral solution

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catholic church sales of purgatory argument against

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-crimes committed by church like fascism, paedophile
-protestants say church corrupt
-sales of indulgences policy of CC to accept money in return for forgiveness of sins
-luther claimed purgatory fabricated by goblins

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limited election

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-view only a few christians chosen by god before they are born receive salvation in heaven

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unlimited election

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-all people can be saved by not all are
-idea that being a good person gets you into heaven
-since not everyone will choose to be good
-number of people in heaven potentially limited

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universalism

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-view everyone will be saved

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augustine and exclusivism

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-we are so corrupt by OS that genuine faith in jesus only possible with gods help- grace
-predestines some people to have and keep faith in christ and one of elect will be saved

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augustine and grace

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-grace saves humans and allows them to heaven
-election is gods choosing to grant grace
-st paul- grace gift we cannot take credit for earning

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augustine and limited election

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-st paul romans 8 - predestination
-our fate in afterlife fixed
-this view of election followed doctrine of OS and grace
-if we cant get into heaven god hasnt predistined us to
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double predestination

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-that heaven predestined for some and hell for others

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pelagius- predestination makes punishment unjust

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-if we have OS and cannot not do evil- unjust for god to punish us for sins
-not ethical for all of humanity to be blamed for adam and eves sins
-our free will and being without coercion from OS makes sense of prevalent biblical theme of gods judgment and punishemtn

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hicks universalism

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-all people saved
-all loving god would not damn anyone to hell
-cannot be justice for any person no matter how evil to have eternal punishment

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humes strength of hicks universalism

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-proportionality
-punishment had to be proportional to crime
-even if hitlers actions were immoral- not just to punish finite crimes infinitely
-hell incompatible with omnibenevolence

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hicks soul making theodicy

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-good moral behaviour needed to save but everyone has limitless chances to become virtuous
-very bad people not straight to heaven but long time to improve morally to get there

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annihilatonism

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-although hell eternal and destination of unright death, dont spend eternity in hell but annihlated into non existence
-destroy soul and body in gehenna- matthew 10
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