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Death/Afterlife
What is hell like?
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Sartre (1905-1980)
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His hell is occupied by three people who have just died and think they are in a room waiting for the conventional religious hell of fire, brimstone and torture.
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As time goes on they realise that there is no hell pf this kind, the hell that they have discovered is living with the lies, deceits, cowardice and murders each has committed on earth.
The torment each other and eventually realise that there is "no exit" because there is no freedom to be a truly individual person.
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The Catholic Church
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Mortal sin is sin which is morally gravel deficient, deliberately will and in defiance of God's law.
Venial sins by contrasts are errors of judgement and lack of moral knowledge which can be absolved through repentance.
· "To die in the state of mortal sin without repentance and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever." [Catechism of the Catholic Church, para. 1033].
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It is the reason for mission, the call to convert people to Christianity
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What is heaven like?
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The Christian idea of heaven... A place of comfort and familiairity under the authority of God's unconditional love.
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Purgatory
"In Purgatory"
Might someone be ‘in purgatory’ after death, in a waiting room or as they recognise their earthly sins and the ways in which they have fallen short of God’s standards? Might they then work to repent and make themselves fit for God’s presence?
Protestant View
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They would argue that it is wrong because it suggests that Jesus did not complete the final act of salvation on the cross. They argue that Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross was total in its defeat of sin, enabling people to go straight into the presence of God if they accepted Jesus’ saving power.
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Catholic Doctrine
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Pope Gregory (540-604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great was Pope of the Catholic Church from 03/09/590 to his death in 604.
Gregory argued that there was the possibility of forgiveness not only in his age but also in the age to come therefore, there must be some kind of temporary state after death in which people can rid themselves of sin and be forgiven.
Purgatory is a place or state where, after death, the soul is purged, cleaned or purified before the person is ready to enter heaven.
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The process of purging sin can be started in this earthly life by going to confession, repenting and putting right the wrongs that we have done.
Donte (1265-1321)
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Dante poetically describes how the soul ascends various ‘terraces of the mountain’ whose summit or goal is the beatific vision. At the end of the journey the mountain shakes and the soul ascends to heaven. Each of the terraces represents one of the seven deadly sins and is overseen by angels.
The soul’s driving force is love and increasingly towards the end of the ascent, reason. But the vision of purgatory is not merely a description of what lies in store after death, but an allegory of how life should be lived now. Earth, like the mountain, provides various temptations which the soul has to conquer in its journey to achieve salvation in heaven.
Catholic Catechism,
Some people might spend only a very short time in purgatory especially if they are saints or have been martyred for their faith, but nevertheless purgatory is a state through which everyone goes before moving on either to heaven or hell.
"All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven." [Catechism of the Catholic Church para. 1030]
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Christian Eschatology
The study of matters such as death and the after life, heaven and hell, the second coming of Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, the end of the world, the last judgement and the new heaven and new earth in the world to come.
The study of matters such as death and the after life, heaven and hell, the second coming of Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, the end of the world, the last judgement and the new heaven and new earth in the world to come.