Heaven Flashcards
Christians don’t believe that God has an ? but that He’s in all places at all ?
Address.
Times.
The Lord’s Prayer begins “Our ?, who art in Heaven”. In John’s Gospel, Jesus tells his ?: “My Father’s house has many rooms”. These metaphors convey ideas of comfort, return and ?
Father.
Disciples.
Familiarity.
Heaven is described as somewhere where there’ll be no more ?, pain or death.
Suffering.
Protestants have tended to understand heaven as an ? ?
Everlasting existence.
Moral philosopher, ? ?, wondered whether an eternity in heaven would really be ? Some respond to this by saying that, in heaven, God would make sure this didn’t happen.
Bernard Williams.
Desirable.
Catholic theologian, Karl ?, made the same point as Bernard ?, arguing that the limited ? of our earthly lives gives them their meaning, and used it as a ? to support the view of a timeless afterlife.
Rahner.
Williams.
Span.
Reason.
It’s difficult to see how we could still be the same ? in a life after death.
Person.