Death & The Afterlife Flashcards
(37 cards)
What does St Paul say about the spiritual body & the physical body in 1 Corinthians?
“The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable”
What does Paul say happens to your body in the afterlife (corinthians)?
“Our body is replaced by a more substantial eternal house”
What does parousia mean?
Christ arrives after resurrection to usher in the new kingdom.
What does it say in Mark 1 that made people think Jesus’ death would establish the Kingdom of God?
“The time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God has come near”
What does the Book of Revelation described the Kingdom of God as?
“New Jerusalem”
What does the Book of Revelation teach that Jesus would do after he rose from the dead?
Unite heaven & hell then raise the dead: “I saw a new heaven and a new earth… death shall be no more”
What does premillenialism teach?
This is an evangelical belief in the second coming. There will be a time of tribulation on earth which God will defeat at the Battle of Armageddon and banish Satan. Anyone not found in “the book of life” are “cast into the lake of fire.”
What is inaugurated eschatology?
Oscar Cullmen’s ides that the Kingdom of God is already here but it is yet to reach its full potential.
What is the quote from John 14 about heaven?
“My father’s house has many rooms.”
What is the traditional and modern teaching about the location of heaven?
Traditional: The empyrean
Modern: Another dimension
Where do Catholics get the idea of purgatory?
Revelations
How does the CCC describe purgatory?
“Purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven”
The Rich Man and Lazarus Quote
“In your lifetime you received good things, while Lazarus received bad things but now he is comforted here while you are in agony” Luke 16
Sheep & The Goats Quote
“Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these you did not do for me… they will go eternal punishment but the righteous to eternal glory” Matthew 25
What do Catholics believe before final judgement?
Nobody is permanently condemned to hell till final judgment.
What does James Joyce write in Portrait of the Artist?
“The torment of fire is the greatest torment to which the tyrant has ever subjected his fellow creatures”
What does the CofE say in the Mystery of Salvation?
Teachings on hell have “made God into a sadistic monster and left searing psychological scars”
How does the CCC describe a spiritual heaven?
“A state of supreme, definitive joy”
What does JP2 say about beatific vision?
“A living personal relationship with the Holy Trinity”
Biblical Quote about heaven being a mystery
“no eye has seen nor ear heard nor the heart of man conceived what God has prepared for those who love jim,
What does Thomas Aquinas say about beatific vision?
It is an intellectual understanding of God: “as the iron knows the fire so we shall know God”
What does Richard Swinburne believe about heaven?
It is coming face-to-face with God
What does Bernard Williams believe about heaven?
Life has meaning & purpose because it is finite. “Heaven would prove to be boring to anyone who remained conscious of himself”
What does JP2 say about symbolic language?
“The bible uses a symbolic language. Rather than a place, hell indicates the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God”
