key words

• Parousia


  used in Christianity as the second coming of Christ
• Particular Judgement


  judgement for each person at the point of death
• parable 


  story to highlight a moral message
• universalism 


  view that all people will be saved
• unlimited election 


  the view that all people are called to salvation, but only a few will be saved
• Original Sin


  state of wrongdoing in which people are born with sin because of Adam and Eve
• Limited Election


  view that God chooses only a small number of people for heaven
• Election (theological sense)


  predestination, chosen by God for heaven or hell
• Purgatory 


  place where people go, temporarily after death to be cleansed of sin before they're fit to live with God
• Beatific vision 


  face-face encounter with God
• Resurrection 


  living on after death in a glorified physical form in a new realm
• Disembodied experience


  existing without a physical body
• General Judgement


  God’s judgement at the end of time
• Gehenna (Hades)


  referred to by Jesus as a place of fire sinners are sent to
• New Earth 


  view of heaven that at the end of time God will restore the earth to its pre-fall state where the resurrected bodies of the righteous will live forever
• Sheol (Hades)


  afterlife that the Jews believe in where the souls of all people go after death of the body. The Greek word for Sheol is Hades