The Afterlife

• Afterlife


  What Christians believe follows life on earth
• Day of Judgement


  A time when the world will end and every soul will be judged by God and rewarded or punished
• Judgement

  1. God takes into account the life of the person

  2. The extent to which they have tried to get close to him, by following the teaching and example of Jesus
• Jesus: 'When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.'
• Jesus: 'Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was ill and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.''
• Christians believe that simply treating other people well and in accordance with Christian morality is not enough to guarantee a good afterlife. They believe that Jesus is the Son of God and following his teaching is also important.
• Heaven

  A state of eternal happiness in the presence of God; the place of eternal peace ruled over by God
• Hell

  The place of eternal suffering or the state of being without God
• Purgatory

  The intermediate state where souls are cleansed in order to enter heaven
• Satan


  Name for the Devil - the power and source of evil
• Christians have different opinions about who will be with God eternally in heaven.
• A more modern and less literal view which many Christians hold is that heaven is a spiritual existence of peace and happiness in the eternal presence of God.
• Hell is often seen as the opposite of heaven. Christians understand it to be a state of existence without God.
• There is great debate about whether a loving God would condemn people to eternal torment and pain. A more modern interpretation is that hell is an eternal state of mind of being cut off from the possibility of God.