Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The End of Life
- Hell
- Absence of God for those
who reject Jesus' teachings.
- In the past it was looked up
as more visual: Place of
torment and suffering.
- Heaven
- For those who have followed God
to spend eternity with God.
- Free from suffering
- If a sinner repents and turns away
from bad deeds they can go to
heaven.
- '' IN HEAVEN THERE WILL BE
MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE
WORSHIPPING AT THE THRONE OF
GOD''
- Purgatory
- This is an in-between state for the
majority of people of waiting for
heaven, a time of cleansing from sin
and preparing for heaven.
- God as a
Judge
- ''PARABLE OF SHEEP AND GOATS''
- Explains how Jesus will judge people at
the end of their life according to how they
have cared for others
- According to the
APOSTLES CREED God
will judge the living and
the dead at the end of
time.
- They believe that there will be a
ressurection of the body on judgement
day and at the end of time when
everybody is made to account for their
actions
- Body and Soul
- Christians believe that you have a
mind/body but also a SOUL which
makes us human.
- 'God breathed life
into Adam'
- God ' created man in his own image'
- Gives christians the belief they have a
divine spark/soul which sets them apart
from other living things'
- Belief that the soul does not die but
the body does it just lives on and
you're reunited with God
- 'The body which is perishable,
shall be raised imperishable'
- Salvation and Redemption
- Jesus is described as he
savior of the world- NEW
TESTAMENT
- Died on the cross to
take all sins
- Jesus- Redeemer;
someone who saves a
person from sin and
damination
- Christian Funerals
- Reminds christians that they will live
forever with God.
- Orthodox christians are
only buried in coffins in
the ground.
- Commital to ground
- 'We now return his/her body to the
ground. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust'
- INCLUDE; Readings from bible,
hymns, prayers, tributes.
- Roman catholics include a requiem mass.
- Funeral Rites:
- A priest or minster will
sometimes come and visit
the person to prepare for
death.
- Open casket can
sometimes be chosen
- Flowers: to represent the beauty of the
world which the dead person is about to
enter
- Candles- are also lit to remind
people that Jesus was the light of
the world.