self,death and the afterlife Flashcards
(23 cards)
what are the three purposes of life?
glorify god,prepare for judgment ,bring about God’s kingdom on earth
What does it mean to glorify god?
Christians are created in the image of God so should reflect God’s glory in their lives
jesus taught disciple to encourage others to give glory to God
engage in worship
What does it mean to prepare for judgment?
humans disobeyed god leading to alienation, god alone restores this relationship through reconciliation judgment
Parable of sheep and goats
Heaven is a reward for good behavior,justification by works
What does it mean
What does it mean to bring about gods kingdom on earth?
holistic view rather than personal
jesus will return one day
purpose of existence is too work towards creating perfection on earth,develop virtues,more like god
Stewardship,peace,justice
Humans work actively
What are Jewish teachings on the soul
old testament-Hebrew word for soul is nepesh
associated with principle of life,nepesh god given to adam
teaching of jesus-nepesh means heart,mind,inner self
What are Greek teachings on the soul?
Plato-two spheres of reality-humans live and have a partial understanding ot reality and truth
This world is called forms
Body perishes at death,soul is immortal,returns to world of forms before reincarnation
what is modern thinking of the soul?
Christians-soul is moral and spiritual dimension of life
distinct from physical body-dualism
what are teachings on the resurrection of jesus?
Central belief, shows hope of life after death
Four gospels state the tomb was empty
He was the same yet different,not subject to human limitations
Unique event, jesus through God’s power conquered death, hope for eternal life after death
Christians interpret either spiritual or physcial
‘if christ has not been raised then faith is futile’ corinthians
What are teachings on resurrection of the flesh?
augustine- the fall affected all of humanity very human is infected with sin, humans are dependant on God grace to save them from eternal punishment
Christ’s physical death was atonement god can create the same miracle for anything with a soul
physical resurrection allows for spiritual and pshyial effects of sin to be erased
What are teachings on spiritual resurrection?
Some believe body decompose in grave or destroyed in cremation
Soul survives death and lives with god
what is the significance of corinthians?
‘it is sown a natural body, it is raised a physical body’
Paul-resurrection of body
earthly body perishes at death,new spiritual and imperishable body after death
he believed the language many Christians understood was meant as a metaphor
what are Christian teachings on judjemnt, heaven,hell and purgatory?
Catholic church
particular judgment-takes place straight after death,determines eternal fate
General judgment-takes place at seodc coming of christ, humanity as whole
free from sin will be directed to eternal presence of God in heaven
those who reject gods love and mercy-moral sin directed to eternal separation from God in hell
venial sins-less serious sins directed to purgatory, prepare for heaven
what are teachings on physical afterlife?
fundamentalists-christ will return to judge all humans
holy taken to heaven
those who commit mortal sins cast into hell–suffer,torment, fire
venial sins-period of pain and cleansing to enter heaven
What are teachings on a spiritual afterlife?
Catholic thnkings-heaven,hell,purgatory are spiritual states
hell is not a realm of torture, results from choices of mortal sins without repentance
purgatory is not a place
Other Christians reject the idea of particular and general judgment because that is language of space and time which ends at death-reject belief in purgatory
What are teachings on afterlife as psychological realites?
some Christians reject any belief in the afterlife because there is no empeical evidence
Others think heaven and hell are products of the human mind
A life lived in accordance to convictions is spiritually fulfilled, experience joy
Those with inner conflict leads to need to psychotherapy
What is process theology?
God and the universe are uncreated and eternal
God did not create the universe out of nothing, his purpose is to create order and complexity from chaotic matter
This is through persuasion
God and universe exist panentheistic ally-god is the soul of the universe
Avoids anthropocentrism
What is objective immortaility?
after death, all individuals remain eternally as objects in the mind of god,they never die
What is subjective immortality?
after death,humans exist as Thinking subjects with continued experiences, through memories
Why do people reject process theology?
It is meaningless-if a person can no longer have individual experience it has no significance being in the mind of god
No awareness of innocent suffering being redeemed if they are an object in the mind of god
