Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

PRE > Death and the afterlife > Flashcards

Death and the afterlife Flashcards

1
Q

Describe two examples of a physical afterlife

A

recreation of the Pre-Lapsarian world, God will recreate it here on earth at the end of time
A physical place, another realm or dimension, where our resurrected bodies will live in harmony with God

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Describe a non-physical afterlife

A

a spiritual, disembodied existence, joining with God or your soul coming to God (Beatific Vision)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Give a quote that connotes an embodied afterlife

A

1 Corinthians 15:20- ‘Christ has been raised from death, as the guarantee that those who sleep in death will also be raised’

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Define parousia

A

The arrival of Jesus and ‘uncreating of earth’. It occurs at the end of time, and all are judged, then the righteous are sent by Jesus to a new and restored world.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Schleiermacher’s criticism of a physical afterlife

A

The misery of knowing your loved ones are in hell would undermine the blessedness of any physical reality of heaven.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

William Lane Craig’s rebuttal of Schleiermacher’s criticism of a physical afterlife

A

Craig- “God would ‘obliterate’ from the mind of the redeemed any knowledge of the lost person and therefore any feelings of remorse would be gone”

But is blissful ignorance a perfect, heavenly, form of happiness?
Is it what a loving God would do?

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Bernard Williams’ criticism of physical afterlife

A

Concerning the supposed tedium of immortality
Immortality would lead to boredom, meaning it would become intolerable

(But as human’s are currently imperfect, when rid of all selfishness and temptation it would not be boring

But if we are changed completely are we the same person?)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Define ‘Beatific vision’

A

sight which contains in itself the power of banishing all pain, all sorrow, from the beholder, and of infusing, in their stead, joy and happiness.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Quote in support of Beatific vision

A

Psalm 17:15 ‘As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness’

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Strengths of Aquinas’ view of a disembodied, not physical afterlife

A

Beyond time and space, compatible with God’s OMNISCIENCE
No question of spacial LOCATION
No question of what people are physically doing or whether they would be BORED

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Weaknesses of Aquinas’ disembodied, non-physical afterlife

A

If the soul exists timelessly in God’s presence, how is it the same person?

Beatific vision forces us to give up personal identity that survives in the afterlife, nothing remains to link us to our physical selves, so is it really us?

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

what could Jesus’ resurrection tell us about the afterlife?

A

He was raised physically, so we too could be raised with a physical body

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Quotes from St Paul about disembodied afterlife

A

‘What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable […] It is sown in physical body; it is raised in spiritual body’

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

what do both the Catholic Church and CofE teach about non/physical afterlife

A

Physical place in a new body

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

quote for disembodied afterlife (Corinth…)

A

1 Corinthians 15:50 ‘Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God’

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Quote for disembodied afterlife (Eccles…)

A

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ‘Our bodies will return to the dust of the earth, and the breath of life will go back to God)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Define immediate afterlife

A

A person will be judged by God and enter straight to heaven or hell

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Define delayed afterlife

A

Becomes nothing and then judged at the end of time, when Jesus comes again (Parousia)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Problems with an embodied afterlife

A
  1. Negative feelings towards BODY (neither just or benevolent- INCOHERENT).
    Refute- Adam and eve felt no shame in Pre-Lapsarian world
  2. Bodies are still present on EARTH. Some people’s bodies are disfigured or cremated
    Refute- God gives us new bodies?
  3. Cannot find physical LOCATION
    Refute- another realm
  4. Reliance on soul, problem of CONTINUITY. How is the new body the same? If the soul is the essence of a person, why is the soul necessary?
  5. Some people are disabled on earth, or die elderly or an infant, UNJUST in afterlife?
  6. Body is SENTIENT and feels pain- need to be kept alive would cause SUFFERING
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Issues with disembodied afterlife

A
  1. Lack of EMPIRICAL evidence for the SOUL
  2. Cannot feel goodness or happiness without the SENSES
  3. Contradicts JESUS’ resurrection
  4. Are you still YOU without physical form?
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Stories in the Bible that involve an embodied resurrection

A

Jesus’ resurrection
Jairus’ daughter
Lazarus

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Questions arising from a belief in physical hell

A

Physical location
Is physical pain the worst form of torment?
Would we become immune to physical pain?
Is it benevolent to punish eternally?
what happens to physical bodies on earth?

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

Questions arising from a spiritual hell

A

Hell is unforgiving
Senses need to experience pain, inc emotional
If you already separate yourself from God in life, is it a true punishment in death
Is separation from God heaven to Satanists?

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

Quote for physical hell

A

Matthew 13:50 ‘In that place there will be weeping’

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

Quote for spiritual hell

A

Catechism of the Catholic Church ‘This state of definitive self-exclusion from communication with God is called Hell’

26
Q

Leibniz’s arguments against hell

A

Contradicts the Christian assertion of God’s victory over evil. Allows evil to triumph, especially if so few are sent to heaven

27
Q

CS Lewis on hell

A

‘Hell is a state of mind’

28
Q

John Paul II on hell

A

‘the Bible uses symbolic language […] Rather than a place, hell indicates the state of those who freely and definitely separate themselves from God’

29
Q

Criticisms of hell (and brief evaluation)

A
  1. People in heaven are AWARE of eternal punishment- Contradicts nature of God and definition of heaven (happy, perfect etc.)
  2. Eternal punishment doesn’t fit with just, benevolent God- Principle of NON-CONTRADICTION, hell contradict Bible passages, Relevant to both physical and spiritual
  3. Eternal punishment serves no purpose- NO EDUCATIVE value, or forgiveness
  4. Existence of hell would reinforce PROBLEM OF EVIL- contradictions (principle and scripture)
  5. PHYSICAL location of hell- refute with omniscience and omnipotence
30
Q

Describe Catholic views on purgatory

A

Humans are not in a fit state to enter heaven, soul must be cleansed, the righteous are purified, fit to enter presence of God, requires some punishment for sin (God is just)- Pope Gregory in 16th century

31
Q

Quote for purgatory

A

Matthew 12:30 “every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven… but anyone who speaks against the spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age, or in the age to come’ Conveys possibility for redemption after death

32
Q

Rahner on purgatory

A

not physical, but the pain is self-inflicted mental pain: the awareness that your actions on earth have separated you from God
(Also, Anon. Christians)

33
Q

Issues with purgatory

A

Used by Catholic Church to make money (request a memorial mass for the dead) But is that really enough money to make a fortune?

Purgatory was invented by catholics and not in scripture
But the trinity and incarnation aren’t words in scripture either

34
Q

What does the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats say about the afterlife

A

Salvation by merit

“all nations” available to all

35
Q

Define limited election

A

limited space in heaven, very few enter

36
Q

Define unlimited election

A

open to all, but few will achieve

37
Q

Define universal election

A

everyone will achieve salvation and enter heaven

38
Q

what did Cyprian of Carthage write?

A

Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus- ‘outside the church, no salvation’

39
Q

what did Calvin believe about the afterlife?

A

Salvation by grace and predestination

40
Q

How many seats are believed to be in heaven?

A

144,000 mentioned in Revelation

41
Q

Who advocated salvation through merit?

A

Pelagius

42
Q

What examples of grace did Augustine give to discredit Pelagius?

A

Moses would have left the Israelites to suffer without God

St Paul would have continued to persecute Christians without God’s intervention and converting him

43
Q

Quote from Jesus about unlimited election

A

Matthew 22:14 ‘ Many are invited, but few are chosen’

44
Q

Quote from Jesus about ‘narrow door’

A

Luke 13:22 ‘ Do your best to go in through the narrow door; because many people will surely try to go in but will not be able’ supported by many Protestants and Catholics

45
Q

define orthodoxy

A

Right beliefs according to the church

46
Q

define orthopraxy

A

doing right things

47
Q

What did Barth believe?

A

A loving God would not limit entrance to heaven

48
Q

Who believed in universal election?

A

Hick omniest

49
Q

Quote to support limited election

A

Jesus- no one comes to the father except through me

50
Q

Strengths of limited election

A
  1. God’s OMNISCIENCE means he knows how many will enter heaven
  2. Omniscience means PREDETERMINED
  3. JUST
  4. Gives purpose to Jesus’ CRUCIFIXION
51
Q

Weaknesses of limited election

A
  1. God would want more people to achieve salvation- BENEVOLENT
  2. Dependant on PHYSICAL afterlife
  3. Contradicts that all dead BABIES go to heaven, unjust
  4. PREDESTINATION- actions have no meaning therefore UNJUST
  5. Dependant on HELL
  6. CONTRADICTS other scripture
52
Q

Weaknesses of unlimited election

A
  1. A person could follow Jesus without realising it and be GOOD (Rahner’s anonymous Christians)
  2. Not everyone is EXPOSED to Christianity, disabled, infantile
  3. Dependant on HELL
  4. Christianity is always CHANGING
53
Q

Strengths of universal election

A
  1. Fits with NATURE of God
  2. Still JUST as some punishment
  3. Purpose of life is SOUL-MAKING, not deciding on heaven and hell
  4. Removes religious barriers and is more FAIR
54
Q

Weaknesses of universal election

A
  1. UNJUST if everyone ends up in the same place
  2. No SCRIPTURAL support
  3. Relies on belief of SOUL
  4. Relies on SOUL MAKING in afterlife
  5. UNDERMINED importance of JESUS
55
Q

Strengths of unlimited election

A
  1. COHERENT with God’s just and benevolent nature
  2. JESUS has purpose due to the DOCTRINE OF UNLIMITED ATONEMENT’
  3. SCRIPTURAL support
56
Q

Word meaning restoration, hell is not eternal and its purpose is to be restore the cosmos to its pre-Fall state

A

Apokatastasis

57
Q

Name two types of exclusivism

A

D’Costas two types-

Restrictive access- directly hearing and accepting the Gospel

Universal access- God wills the salvation of everyone

58
Q

Para on hell does not exist

A

LEIBNIZ- Contradicts Christian assertion of God’s victory over evil

JUST- some punishment necessary- ‘and these will go away into eternal punishment’ Matthew 25 sheep and goats

  1. Non-contradiction, coherent (benevolence)
  2. No educative value
  3. Some punishment means its actually just
  4. Hell is problematic, causes issues
  5. Reinforce problem of evil
  6. Phenomena- Hick, Kant, refute scripture
59
Q

Para on no limit on number of spaces

A

BARTH- benevolent god would not limit, doctrine of unlimited atonement, Jesus brought salvation for all

CALVIN- Jesus only died for the elect, Revelation 144 000 sealed

  1. Dependent on hell which is problematic
  2. Unjust eg dead babies
  3. Predestination, actions lack meaning, unjust, compromise of free will
  4. Barth is coherent
  5. Principle of non-contradiction, Matthew 25, ‘all nations’
60
Q

Para on no religious barriers

A

Use RAHNER OR HICK- some not capable, eg because of culture, or anonymous Christians

Cyprian of Cathage- Ecclesium Nulla Salus
Jesus- no one comes to the father except through me
Barth- Jesus chose to reveal himself through Christianity

  1. Coherent
  2. Illogical- Christianity is always changing
  3. Creates intolerance
  4. Jesus spoke about resurrection being with Abraham who is technically outside the church, principle of non-contradiction

PRE (20 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions