JHHP as physical

• The view almost universally held in the West until modern times
• The powerful, both in the Church and the secular world, saw it as a way of controlling the peasants
• Some fundamentalist Christians still believe in it, though any Protestants who think this way reject the idea of purgatory
• At the end of the world, Christ will return in glory to judge all humans according to their needs
• Those assessed as holy will be taken to heaven (often depicted as a city) by angels
• Those who have committed mortal sins will be cast into hell to suffer torment, often depicted as blazing fire, for eternity
• Those whose sins are denial undergo a period of cleansing sufferings and pain (known as purgatory) and this will enable them to enter heaven