Death in the afterlife Flashcards
What are the 3 views of Heaven?
-Physical reality
-Spiritual reality
-Symbolic metaphorical ideas
What are beliefs of the physical reality of heaven?
-evangelical believe the bible literally so think all aspects of the afterlife are physical
-Due to Jesus’s resurrection presenting a physical body when he went to heaven
Who made the physical idea of the afterlife more popular in medieval times?
Dante’s poem ‘the divine comedy’
What are beliefs about the after life being a spiritual place?
-a spiritual state of the soul experience bliss
-it relies on the idea that there will be conscious thought in the after life
-also depends on the mind and body is it will really survive death.
Why did people begin to reject the physical view of the afterlife and take a spiritual view?
Due to issues raised by physical Resurrection/ rejection of Resurrection altogether.
What are the beliefs of people who believes that the afterlife is simply a symbolic and metaphorical idea?
-heaven blissful happiness
-purgatory testing times
-hell suffer bereavement and mental problems
-and so his doesn’t assume an afterlife and requires discarding the biblical teaching as it refers to heaven and hell in the context of life after the death of the physical body.
What is a weakness of believing in the physical aspect?
Practicality
-where is the afterlife?
-what happens if the body is damaged
-death of a baby
What is the weakness of believing in the spiritual idea of the afterlife?
Would the spiritual you truly be you?
What is Parousia?
The second coming of Jesus which is associated with the transformation of the word
Mathew belief in heaven?
‘Our father who art in heavan’
Which gospel could argue the fact that u don’t have to be christian to go to heaven?
Johns-‘My father has many rooms’
What quote could suggest you must be christian to go to heaven?
‘whoever believes and is baptised will be saved’
What does st paul beelive about heaven?
we will have spiritual bodies that will raise to a spiritual home
e.g house vs tent example.
‘flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God’
What suggest from Luke’s gospel than when u die u go straight to heaven or hell?
‘today you will be with me in paradise’
What do catholics believe which was adopted from aquinas about the heaven?
The beatific vision which is a face to face encounter with God
How does N.T Wright explain the transformation of earth?
-referred to as ‘new Jerusalem’
-transformation of the present world into God’s kingdom
-focuses on renewal
-it is done through heaven and earth uniting
-continuity of the old
