Catholic

• • Death is not the end, but a change from one state of being to another. ​
• • Jesus died on the cross, paying for our sins (defeated death when he rose)
• • Catholics can hope to go to Heaven after death and spend eternity with God. (Eternal life)
• • The soul that lives on after our physical death. ​
• • Soul = spiritual aspect which connects us with God (only humans have)
• • Ensoulment = When soul enters body in womb
• • God is the Divine Judge and, on Judgement Day, will judge who is rewarded (heaven) and who is punished (hell)
• • Go to heaven = Believe in Jesus and have lived a good life
• • Go to hell = Reject God’s love and caused harm to others
• • After death, we will experience a ‘bodily resurrection' known as Jesus came back to life physically. 
• • St Paul states after death, we will be raised as spiritual bodies, not just 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 and reaches perfect salvation
• BEATIFIC VISION:

  • Human experiences joy, happiness from seeing God perfectly, not imperfectly through faith
• PURGATORY

  • A place where a person’s soul can be cleansed from sin
• PUGATORY:

  • Catholicism accepts people are imperfect
• PURGATORY:

  • Cleansing mistakes is necessary to be fully in the presence of God. ​
• • A state of hope (why Catholics pray for those who have died to purify them from sin to be in God’s presence)