Catholic

• belive death isn’t the end but change from one state of being to another
• Believe Jesus died on the cross for our sins and when He resurrected He defeated death
• Catholics hope to go to Heaven after death and spend eternity with God
• Catholics believe the soul lives on after our physical death
• Only humans have a soul
• Ensoulment is the moment when the soul is believed to enter the body while in the womb
• Bible teaches that God is the Divine Judge on judgement day + he will decide who will be rewarded with eternal life in paradise ,heaven , and who will be punished , hell
• Those who believe in Jesus + have lived a good life will go to heaven
• Those who rejected God’s love + caused harm to others will be sent to hell
• Catholic teachings focuses on individuals judgement - we are responsible for our own actions
• Catholics believe that after death we will experience ‘bodily resurrection’
• St Paul states that after our deaths we will be raised as spiritual bodies no disembodied souls
• Beatific vision :

  ultimate direct self-communication of God to the individual person
• Beatific vision :

  person possessing the beatific vision = member of redeemed humanity in the communion of saints
• Beatific Vision :

  human experience joy , happiness coming from seeing God finally face to face and not imperfectly through faith
• Purgatory:

  place where a persons soul can be cleansed from sin
• Purgatory :

  Accept that people are not perfect
• Purgatory :

  refers to cleansing of sins before going to be in Gods presence in heaven

  • it’s a state of hope - why Catholics pray for those who have died in order to purify them from sin