michelangelo painted a very detailed painting of the judgement day in a chapel in Rome showing what is explained in the bible.christians believe that when Jesus died on the cross he died for everyone's sins.when Jesus supposedly rose from the dead he proved that you can overcome death .
some people claim to have near death experiences where they have nearly died and seen heaven or an angel and then have come back to reality again.although people have claimed to have had these experiences there is no proof to suggest that have and so these experiences play no real part in beliefs of life and death.
evangelical Protestant believe that when you die your soul waits until god ends the world.then the souls of the dead are reunited with there bodies and join the living in the new world with god watching over them.
some Protestants believe that there is no hell and your soul can never die and it lives in a spiritual realm ,this is what st.paul believed and wrote in his writings. others believed that there is an hell and all those that have knowingly sinned and not regretted it or have not confessed will then go to hell.for Protestant's there are many biblical influences like in john:2 when Jesus said"in my fathers house there are many rooms ".
Catholics believe in both of the views above and that those who have not sinned will go to heaven and those that have sinned will go to hell.roman Catholic's also believe in the second coming and belief if you have not sinned since your last confession then your soul will go straight to heaven.if you have sinned since your last confession they you will have to go to purgatory to be cleansed of all your sin.
every denomination have different views on what happens to the soul after death.evangelical belief that your soul waits for god to end the world where other denomination believe your soul is immediately judged by God.there are different descriptions of the soul like the Mediaeval Christian theologians who often thought that your soul had thought,imagination and faith
And that it lived on in an erternal place.some people believe your soul to be the essence of you body.
In conclusion there are many views on what happens after death to your body,mind and soul,but no one can be certain about what will happen to you or any one else and that we will just have to wait until death to see if any thing really does await us or if that will be the end for us.
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Q:explain how a particular belief in an afterlife may affect the way in which followers of Christianity may live their lives?
A:all religions have different beliefs about what happens after death and how the affects of what they do when they are alive will affect them when they are dead.
The three main theorys on what happens when we die are that your body rots in the ground,you are reborn or that you go to heave.
most christian denominations believe that there is an eternal life for them with God once they are dead in heaven.
Each christian group will have there own rules and laws to follow to make shore they go to heaven once they are dead.
Catholics and other denominations which believe in both heaven and hell ,believe that to get to heaven you should not sin and you should follow the bible and the ten commandments.
Catholics and other christians will to confess there sins in a church because they believe if they do confess to god he will forgive them for all there sins and they then have a better chance of going to heaven becuase it is like a new beggining for them.
One of the things that christians all around the world do because about there beliefs in the afterlife is go to church.
most christian familys will go to church on sunday and pray to god.christians believe that the church is gods home and through praying in it they have a better chance of having a good after life in heaven.some people devote there lives to God because of there beliefs.Other religions like the jewish often go to a synagogue because of there beliefs about god and the afterlife much like the christians.Many pople believe in god because they believe if they do they will have a good after life
if no one was to believe that after you die nothing else happens and you just rot in the ground than there would not be as many people believing in any religion and they would care even less about there actions and the consiquences of them.
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Q:'eveyone should enjoy their life and forget about what might happen next'.
Do you agree?give reasons to support your answer and show that you have thought about different points of view.
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there are many religions from christianity to budism.All religions are based around god and the after life.Christians and jewish people have a wide selection of beliefs about what happens when you die.In hinduism they believe when you die that you
are reancarnated in to another animal or being and that your next life shall depend on how you acted in your previous life.Even people that do not believe in religion still have there own beliefs of what they think will happen when they die.The most likely belief of what happens to you when you die an agnostic would say is that you just rot in the ground unless you are cramated and that is the end and nothing else will ever happen to you after that.
I think that you should only enjoy life and forget about what happens when you die if you are agnostick and do not believe in any religion because then if there is an aftrer life it is your fault for not believing in one and if you end up in hell it is through your own fault and nobbody elses.if you do believe in some religion than i think that you shouldnt change your beliefs and that you should enjoy your life but keeping within the laws of your religion because then if there ever is an after life than you have enjoyed your previous life and you will also get a good after life.
