Life After Death Key Words.

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APOKATASTASIS

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Meaning restoration or return in Greek.
The idea that hell is NOT eternal and that the eschatological goal of the cosmos is perfection as pre-fall

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BEATIFIC VISION

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A face-to-face encounter with God

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BOOK OF REVELATION

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Last book of the NT, which tells of the Parousia. Written by John the Divine in Patmos approx. 90AD and interpreted in different ways (NT is written in Greek).

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DISEMBODIED EXISTENCE

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Existing without a physical body

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DIVINE DECREE

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God’s judgement or ruling

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DOUBLE PREDESTINATION

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God elects the righteous to heaven and condemns sinners to hell.

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ELECTION (THEOLOGICAL)

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Predestination, chosen by God for heaven or hell

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ESCHATOLOGY

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“Discussion (description) of the last things” at the end of time such as judgement of the world by God; battle between good v evil etc

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GOSPEL OF MATTHEW

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Approx. 75AD with the author interested in Jewish law and relationship with the new law of Jesus.

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HADES AND GEHENNA

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Hades is the place of departed spirits awaiting judgement. Gehenna is associated with death and pollution

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KINGDOM OF GOD

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Describes God’s rule whether in this world or in heaven.

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LIMITED ELECTION

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The view that God choses only a small number of people for heaven

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LUCIFER

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“Light Bearer” who was a fallen angel

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MARAN ATHA

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Aramaic term often translated as “O Lord, come!” Aramaic related to Hebrew and would have been spoken by Jesus

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MARTYR

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Someone who is killed because of their religion i.e. Maccabees C2nd BC

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MILLENARIANISM

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(Chiliastic Doctrine) Based on Revelation 20:2-5 and Christ returning and ruling on Earth for 1000 years

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MORTAL SIN

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Sin which is morally deficient and deliberate in defying God

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ORIGINAL SIN

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A state of wrongdoing in which people are born (according to some Christians) because of the sin of Adam and Eve

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PARABLE

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A story told to highlight a moral message

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PAROUSIA

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Used in Christianity to refer to the second coming of Christ.

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PARTICULAR JUDGEMENT

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Judgement for each person at the point of death

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PERDITION

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Eternal punishment

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PHARISEES

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Jewish religious leaders at the time of Jesus who unlike other Jewish leaders they believed in resurrection and angels

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PURGATORY

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A place where people go, temporarily after death to be cleansed of sin before they are fit to live with God

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RESURRECTION

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Living on after death in a glorified physical form in a new realm

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SADDUCEES

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A political party at the time of Jesus who rejected ideas of an afterlife

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SHEOL

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OT equivalent to Hades

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SINGLE PREDESTINATION

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God elects the righteous to heaven and the evil select hell themselves

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UNIVERSALISM

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The view that all people will be saved

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UNLIMITED ELECTION

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The view that all people are called to salvation but only a few will be saved

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VENIAL SIN

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Errors of judgement and made due to a lack of moral knowledge which can be absolved through repentance

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Origen (184 – 253AD)

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Theologian and writer of influence (influenced by Plato!!). Important work was “De Principlis”

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Gregory of Nyssa (335 – 395AD)

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Influential teacher and preacher. Indebted to the ideas of Plato and Origen.

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Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321)

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Florence, Italy – statesman and poet. In his “Divine Comedy”, he describes his journey through hell (Inferno) and heaven (Paradiso). Main theological influence was Thomas Aquinas

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Paul Tillich (1886 – 1965)

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German-American Lutheran Philosopher who was influenced by existentialism (a modern philosophical movement stressing the importance of personal experience and . The individual is seen as a free agent in a deterministic and seemingly “meaningless universe”.

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John-Paul Satre (1905 – 1980)

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French Philosopher and political activist. Major work – “Being and Nothingness” (1943)