Afterlife

• St. Paul teaches that Jesus rose from the dead and what happened to Jesus will also happen to his followers
• Resurrection is the belief that after death people will have a bodily existence
• People will have a resurrection like Jesus and will have a spiritual resurrection body given to them by God
• When Jesus rose, his body was familiar but at times his disciples did not recognize him
• This will also happen to believers
• Most humanists and atheists are materialists, arguing that nothing else exists apart from matter or material
• Richard Dawkins, a famous atheist, takes a materialist approach and rejects the existence of the soul and the idea that our life or bodies can continue after death
• According to materialists, humans are just a physical body with no soul, made of matter, and there is no spiritual aspect to life
• Materialists believe that there is no life after death, as there is a lack of evidence for it such as no one returning from death, no identified place where it occurs, and skepticism towards accounts like Jesus' resurrection
• Some religious and non-religious individuals believe in reincarnation, such as Sikhs and Hindus
• In reincarnation beliefs, the soul passes to a new body after death, and the type of rebirth is determined by the individual's actions in their current life
• Reincarnation supporters think that people are reborn multiple times in various forms, which is considered a more plausible concept of life after death compared to the Catholic belief in the resurrection of the body
• Christianity believes in the existence of a soul, which is the spiritual part of a human that can never die
• Most Christians believe in the immortality of the soul, where the soul leaves the body after death to live with God
• The soul is considered the essence of a person and continues to live on to everlasting life in heaven
• Some Christians and Reform Jews reject the idea of bodily resurrection and argue for only the soul going on to be with God