Self, Death and Afterlife

• What is said in Genesis 1:26-28?

  ’Let us make humans in our image’
• Where does God say creation is good?

  Genesis 1:31
• Biblical verses commanding to worship God

  Psalm 134 and John 4 v 23
• Evidence for God breathing life into humans

  Genesis 2:7-8
• Evidence for God’s kingdom

  Mark 1:15 ’repent, and believe in the gospel’
• Evidence for Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalen first

  Mark 16:9 and John 20:14
• Evidence for the soul

  Mary’s song in Luke’s gospel ‘My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour’
• 1 Corinthians 15:44 as evidence for the spiritual resurrection

  ‘It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body’
• 1 Corinthians 42-44

  The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable
• 1 Corinthians 50-54

  ‘Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God… For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed’
• Paradise Lost by John Milton (psychological reality)

  ‘The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n’