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life after death :checkered_flag: - Coggle Diagram
life after death :checkered_flag:
Christian Teaching
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Heaven
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Heaven is the ultimate state in which humans come to see God 'face to face' 1Corinthians 13:12
It is said to be a state of full knowledge when sin has been purged and souls experience full joy. - John 15:11
Heaven is restoration of the whole creation - not just our human relationship with God
Dante's vision of Heaven
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Heaven or paradise are beyond description: "To go beyond the human cannot be put into words"
If people enter hell they MUST lack faith and reason but in heaven the rational soul lives on for years in God's love
There are 10 heavens or mobiles of each paradise, each a symbol for intellectual levels of truth
Beatific Vision
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Dante's vision of heaven depends on a cosmology that thought that the World was at the centre of the planetary spheres - beyond the final sphere, God rules in his heavenly court.
While Dante's vision presents psychologically evocative expression of the final human - God.
The catholic Church: "perfect life with the most holy trinity- this communion of life and love with the trinity"
Christian Teaching
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Hell
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Considered the least acceptable
Spiritual state - Origen regarded hell as a spiritual state where "each skinner fiddles his own fire". Origen did not think hell was a permanent state; it too will pass away when the World is finally redeemed.
Conscience - Gregory of Nyssa argued that judgement and the torture of hell are the result of a guilty conscience when a person is placed in front of Christ
Punishment is eternal and does NOT contradict a loving God as it is needed for justice
Dante's vision of Hell
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Dante's description of Hell forces us to think about our actions and their consequences but also the kind of people we become through our actions
Hell is a physical, mentally and spiritually and an uttertly dysfunctional state.