Death and the afterlife

Question 1

jesus

why people believe in afterlife?

Answer 1

-resurrection
-his death + resurrection r part of gods divine plan

Question 1

the soul

why people believe in aterlife?

Answer 1

-eternal soul
-resurect into new dimension
-reject platonic view: soul+body split (disembodied existence)

Question 2

bible

why ppl believe in afterlife?

Answer 2

-religious experience
-in old n new testament (more apparent in NT)
-writings of st paul+relevation
-afterlife would give us a chance fulfill human potential+ dont necesssary need belief in god

Question 3

steven pinker quote

organisms not angles

Answer 3

‘we are organisms not angles, and our brains are organs not pipelines to the truth’

Question 4

support: revelation 21.4

Answer 4

‘he will wipe every tear from their eyes there will be no more death or morning or anything or pain, for the old order of things has passed away’

Question 4

AGAINST: wittgenstien quote

Answer 4

-‘the world is all n that is the case’

Question 5

problems of resurection

Answer 5

-no systematic explanation of neaning of resurrection or its consequences for the AL

Question 6

st paul

Answer 6

-(5AD-64/65 AD)
-books: romans + galathians
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Question 7

john hick

Question 8

election

Answer 8

predestinantion, chosen by god for heven or hell

Question 9

limited election

Answer 9

-view that god choose only a few ppl for heaven
-west boro baptist church
-st augustine
-john calvin (16thh century)

Question 10

unlimited election

Answer 10

-view that all ppl are called to salvation but only a few will be saved
-karl barth (1886-1968)

Question 11

universalism

Answer 11

-view that everyone will be saved
-john hick (1922-2012)

Question 12

st augustine

limiteed election

Answer 12

-pelagianism: ppl born w blank slate not good or bad
-god knows our dentisty
-gods grace decides who will be elected
-love n mercy

Question 13

john calvin

limited election

Answer 13

-16th century
-predistned some for eternsl punishment, others for eternal life w god
-gods in absolute control
-infulential-mainly in protestant traditon

Question 14

LE CRITICISM: ch spurgen

Answer 14

gods then condemming people to hell

Question 15

single predistination

Answer 15

-the view (catholics) tat god choose those that will go to heaven

Question 16

double predistination

Answer 16

-the view (calvanists) that god chooses those that will go to heaven + alo ho goes hell

Question 17

karl barth

Answer 17

-(1886-1968)
-jesus brought salvationfor whole world- all are called to salvation, not everyone responds to the call
-jesus elects
-christ died for everyone

Question 18

john hick

Answer 18

-(1922-2012)
-he believed in universal salvation, no election+everyone saved
-everyone reach god i the reach

Question 19

vatican

Answer 19

-pope didnt say there is no hell
-denied that pope francis told an italian jounralist ‘there is no hell’

Question 20

disembodied existence

Answer 20

-patonic idea
-able to exist spirtually w/out a body
-‘tent+clothing’+ ‘seed’ metaphor

Question 21

CRITICISM: pope benedict 16

universalism

Answer 21

-makes christ death on cross seem pointless if everyone is saved regardless (protestant)

Question 22

purgatory

Answer 22

-a place or state where the soul is ‘purged’
-catholic teaching developed by early thinkers eg origen (184-254ce) + augustine (3354-430ce)

Question 23

pope gregory

Answer 23

invited purgatory