The Belief Of Life After Death Essay
Many different religions around the world see the importance in life after death but these beliefs do vary a lot and each religion will believe completely different things. Two core religions in this essay that will be looked into are Islamic and Catholic. What do they believe will happen when someone dies? Is there another life after they die? Heaven? Hell? Or Paradise? Through this you will the importance in the belief of life after death, and the practices, rituals, and prayers that provide evidence and physical proof of how they show this belief. Then to go onto to discuss the wider implications holding onto these beliefs can have.
Catholics believe that the resurrection and death of Jesus have changed the meaning and the effect of human death. Death is no longer the end of an individual's human identity, because thesoul continues on after death. The Catholic Church teaches that a soul may go to heaven, purgatory or hell, depending on the quality of a person's life on earth. "That the body dies, death is a normal natural process" (Ecclesiasticus 3:1–2) Based upon the sacred scripture and teachings of the Church, we know what Catholic believes after death and what follows it. When someone dies, their soul is separated from their body and no longer sustains any order within the natural body. As a result of this, the human body begins to corrupt and is left to decompose on its own. The soul however is completely different as it is immortal and will never cease to exist
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All of the major religions believe in life after death. However the ideas from religion to religion can vary greatly. I am going to look at Hinduism and Christianity, two religions that I have been surrounded by all my life, and the different perceptions they have of life afterdeath, and then I will give my own view.
"For certain is death for the born and certain is birth for the dead; therefore, over the inevitable thou shouldst not grieve." This quote from the Bhagwat Gita (Hindu holy book) sums up the Hindu perspective on life after death. Hindus believe that the time they will spend on earth is decided from the moment they are born, and that how long they will live,...show more content...
It also meant than human beings would not be immortal and would eventually die. There was no suggestion that they would go toheaven. Christianity developed from Judaism. This religion believed originally that when people died they went to a dark place under the earth called Sheol. Later, Jews began to believe that they might share some sort of eternal life with God after death. When Jesus died on the cross he was giving up his life for other people's sins and demonstrating the love of God. When Jesus rose again he proved that it was possible to overcome death and live with God for all eternity. Christians were freed from the burden of original sin if they followed Jesus' teaching and example and believed in him as the Son of God. Jesus said, 'I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies' – John 11:25–26. Many Christians believe that one day Jesus will return to earth. This second coming of Jesus is called the Parousia. At the Parousia God will judge everyone and decide whether they will be given eternal life with God or whether they are to be punished in hell.
Many Christians have different ideas about heaven and hell. Some follow a very traditional belief that heaven is a wonderful garden paradise where they will live for ever with God and Jesus. These people often believe that hell is a real place where people will suffer eternal
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Do you believe in life after death? It's a pretty controversial topic. Although it has not been proven that the afterlife is 100% legitimate, many people still believe in it. Some may consider that it is real due to religious teachings. Others have an inclination that paranormal activity and ghosts seem to be a palpable source of evidence that the soul continues to live even after the body has died. However, these views have not been proven. Although the idea of an afterlife seems far–fetched to the practical minded, it can be justified due to a variety of authentic arguments.
Supported by the Christian belief in heaven and scientific research, there is life after death. There are many different types of Christian denominations; however,...show more content...
However, there is one inspiring story of an actual encounter with heaven and Jesus himself; this story is called Heaven is for Real.
Todd Burpo's inspiring story of his son's experience with heaven exemplifies the religious faith playing a role in real life and death. Colton Burpo, three–year–old preacher's son, had a close call with death due to a burst appendix (Newton). During his emergency surgery, he recalls visiting heaven where he talked to Jesus, encountered angels, and even met his sister who had been miscarried by his mother before he was born. Some may be skeptical of Colton's story, dismissing it as an imaginative dream, but his father, Todd, thinks that it is much more. During Colton's procedure, Todd sulked in a small room and had a meltdown with God. No one knew he was there; yet, Colton was able to recall seeing his dad in that room. According to neuroscientist Kevin Nelson, children tend to let their imagination go awry, whereas adults tend to look over their life in near death experiences since they are more sagacious. The things that Colton recalled are far beyond something that his developing brain would have absorbed from his father's church services. Thus, Colton's recollection appears to be far more than a fantasy. Some may say that science does not support the theory of an afterlife; nonetheless, there are studies being revealed that support this idea after all. Recently, the largest medical
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Descriptive Essay On Life After Death
Quyen Phan
Mr. Jeff Jordan
Descriptive Essay
21 September 2017
What will happen after we dead ?
Death is a fact of life that everyone have to go through. There are around 150,000 people die each day worldwide. A person is considered dead when the heart stops and the brain is no longer able to perceive things around. The departure is the result of many factors: illness, accident or simply due to aging. There are many questions about "life after death". One of the seemingly authentic answers based on scientific research is "the man who gives nature back what has taken from nature." Results from several studies have shown that the human body, after a period of time buried underground, decomposes into chemicals that nourish other organisms in...show more content...
It also causes contraction in other tissues, making the hair appear longer. From the next four to six hours, purple covers the entire body, the body has a slight convulsion. One to five days later, the body softens. Inside, the stomach begins to digest itself. Bacteria begin to grow very quickly, causing bloody bubbles to drain in the nose and mouth of the corpse. Eight to ten days later, the bacteria in the intestine will eat dead tissue and release gas, causing the pancreas to rise. Bacteria in the intestine will join in the party, releasing putrescine and cadaverine– compounds that make the body smell after death. At this time, the body begins to produces an unpleasant odor. The tongue protrudes from the mouth due to swelling of the tissues of the neck and face. The red blood cells break down causing some parts of the body to turn green. This is the second stage of the decomposition process: Bloat. The third stage is called active decay, which starts a few weeks after death. Nails, hair, and skin begin to dry out and fall off easily. Depending on the buried environment, the skin begins to liquefy from the inside, rot or dry. Underground, this is also the time of the body subject to attack by insects, bacteria and external environment. The last stage is called skeletonization. It lasts months to years. Fat in the body begins to decompose. If a corpse is exposed to soil or cold water, adipocere
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What is going to happen to us when we will die? Some people never considered what it could happen to them after life. For many people, death is a redoubtable event because they do not know what to expect after their death. However, other persons, such as religious people are conscious of what to expect after their death because of their beliefs. Each religion has different ideas and different ways of looking life. Death, therefore, is viewed by different religions in many ways. Although, different religions have a distinct conception of death, they all have something in common: they all give hope to people. Among all different religions in the world, four of the most common ones– Catholic, Jewish, Islamic, and Hindu–view death in...show more content...
One source explains that the final day of life every person accounts for what he or she has done in her life (World Religions index, 3). В‘Every man В‘s actions have we hung around his neck, and on the last day shall be laid before him a wide–open book' (3). In addition, for Muslims the divine decree is Allah. According to Chris Richard, the author of the book "World Religions", "All the laws that govern the universe belong to Allah, and He controls the destiny of all things, including the time and the place of each person's birth and death: all things issue from Allah, whether sweet or bitter ". "The rightness will be rewarded with the bliss of Paradise"(Richard, 155) . Heaven is depicted in terms of worldly delights. For instance, who fallowed and accepted Allah's guidance will be rewarded with the bliss of Paradise. In the contrary, those who refuse to accept and fallow Allah's guidance in this present life will suffer painful punishment in hell fire. Therefore, death can be viewed in the Islamic religion. Death can also be viewed in the Hindu religion. Hindu considers that they have many incarnations ahead of them before they can find final salvation. There are three main concepts in the Hindu religion: Samsara, Moksha, and Karma. The concept of Samsara is the belief on the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. According to Chris Richard, " The universe is also subject to cynical processes of change, from birth to death and
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Bereavement is an issue that affects families all across the world. It is often hard for parents and families to comfort bereaved children as they are grieving too. Grieving parents many times ''feel like they are losing their minds" (Dickens). But if parents are actively involved in helping their child's healing process then children can learn coping flexibility and resilience and can deal with their grief in healthy ways. However numerous parents are "too emotionally wrought to comprehend the grief of their remaining children (Dickens). They, as well as other family members, experience symptoms of Post–Traumatic Stress Disorder and complicated Greif as they struggle to cope with the loss of their parent, spouse or child.
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For grieving families, parents in particular, there are several books to help them process their emotions and deal with them in constructive way. One book is On Life after Death by Elizabeth Kubler–Ross. This book is a collection of inspirational essays about more than 20,000 people who had near–death experiences, and report the afterlife as a return to wholeness of spirit. This book may be particularly good for families with a religious background who may want to know where their deceased loved ones are. Another book which may work for both religious and non–religious families is A New Normal: Learning to live with grief and loss by Darlene Cross. This book focuses on the healing processes and how to deal with loss in all forms. It gives clear instructions for life after loss and how to have hope and move forward in a healthy way. For adolescences experiencing grief, particularly grieving a sibling or parent the book, Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Teens by Alan D., Wolfelt, Ph.D. Each page gives strategies for coping and loss and how to effectively express emotions. For families who need more than books the websites
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Life After Death and Christianity
Existence of life after death is an important part of Christian belief. Most Christians believe that everybody has a soul and a body. The soul is immortal, which means it will not die and after life on earth, it will either go to heaven or hell. Some believe heaven is a place where you are re–united with friends and family and live with them and God and hell a place where you are made to suffer and inflicted with pain. Other Christians believe heaven and hell to simply be states of mind. In heaven you are happy and living with God. Whereas in hell you are unhappy and living without god.
Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me...show more content... But almost everybody has committed a sin in their life, so does that mean everybody will go to hell?
I believe only the people who have committed relatively evil sins should be sent to hell before heaven. If a person has committed a murder, they should stand a longer sentence without God.
In life now, it is almost impossible to obey the Ten Commandments, I can't think of any person I know who doesn't do anything on a Sunday, the Sabbath. If a person doesn't obey the Ten Commandments, are they likely to go to hell for a period. In my opinion it would be unfair.
As there is no scientific evidence to suggest there is anything beyond death, nothing can be proved. The only light evidence we have is people who claim to have had near death experiences. Some of these people say they rose from their body and moved towards a bright light, but is this enough evidence to say there is anything beyond death? Perhaps the person was a strong believer in life after death and they wanted to see themselves rising from their body.
I think the bible inspires most Christians and motivates them to believe there is life after death. We believe Jesus rose from the dead, so this encourages us to believe we will live after death. However there is still a doubt in my mind that there is nothing after death. I believe in God and
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the devil, heaven and hell, but I cannot help to think maybe I
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The living body and the mind of human can't get through the concept of death because no human can explain it through their concepts unless they already experienced death itself and came back to life and explain everything if there would be immortality of the soul, the theory of reincarnation to other bodies, where does the spirit of human's go, if death would be the true end of human, if death is real or not, or if there would be life after death. What would be the next after death? All humans know just the limit that all of us are curious which is an about the nature of life that entailed by the ending of life which is the death. There could be no one that can explain life after death, not even those who study the death process. All human knowledge or thinking about death are all just the same and equal. The concept of death is it is only a part of human nature. There are so many possibilities like, it could be a termination of human body or it could be a portal to another life. Death could be a process wherein our life is continuing to extinguish until it would be gone or it...show more content...
Why? Because only dead people can answer those questions because they are the only one who had experienced death. No human can be dead and came back to life and explain their experience and the concept of death in the time they were dead. Human's thought cannot have the idea and answers in the question related after death because we don't know what is behind the death, we do not know what would happen next after death, we do not know what comes after death, and we do not know what happens in death because none of us living humans had experienced death, but in the end human body have an end, human thought about death could be answerable already when they reach this end and the answers would just be within
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The Romans, Greeks and Egyptians all share many common beliefs such as the belief in the Gods, spirits, souls and ultimately life after death. Although, these cultures share common beliefs, there are still very different ideas and ways in which they related and communicated with the dead. The Egyptians believed the idea of eternal and actual death was incomprehensible. As for the Greeks and Romans, they also share a similar view of what life is like after death, because they believed death was seen as "nothingness". To all of these cultures death was just a mere interruption of life and not the actual end of a life. The Egyptians lived a similar life to those of the Roman and Greek cultures in that they believed ...show more content...
The physical bodies of the dead were preserved with oils and wrapped in long strips of linen and placed within coffins and shrines. The Egyptians, Romans and Greeks believed the dead have to be buried in a particular way in order for their souls and spirits to rise and come back to life. Their belief was that if the dead were not buried properly their souls would be looked upon in a bad way. The Egyptians believed after leaving the earth as a human being the dead crossed a threshold of death into a beautiful place or afterlife. Their idea of the location or place where the dead lived after leaving earth was similar to that of the Greeks and Romans. Although, the names and meanings of the place where the dead were housed was different, they were still very much like that of the Greeks and Romans "underworld". The Egyptians believed the dead should be buried with all their materialistic possessions, so they may enjoy eternal life even after their death. They thought the dead should not only be buried with their materialistic goods but drinking vessels and dishes for food and earthly riches that surrounded them in the kingdom of the dead. The Greeks and Romans were able to directly communicate with the dead after conducting certain rituals or tasks. These rituals allowed them to see the dead and speak with them as though they were
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Life after death can neither be proved nor disproved. This is because one would have to undergo physical death in order to prove or disprove it (and by its very nature, disproving it would not be possible). This is in contrast to something like astrology where one could undertake a study of people born at the same time and evaluate their personality traits and life outcomes at a later time to see if there is any correlation with time of birth.
There is no actual direct evidence against an afterlife – only arguments refuting the specific examples of evidence for life after death as not being sufficient proof. Although it can easily be argued that not having direct knowledge of an afterlife constitutes evidence against life after...show more content...
Why do we exist at all? What is the purpose of our existence and our life in this world? If we are reincarnated so that we may improve our souls, then should we not know this? If, as taught by Christianity this is our only life on earth, then why do we not have direct knowledge of this? Why is God not in direct contact with us? Maybe not knowing is a better 'test' for us. Going into this life on earth maybe we know the answers to the preceding questions, but once here this knowledge is 'taken' from us and we only can speculate – we therefore live our lives differently possibly and are not motivated by some selfish reward for a good life lived and the suffering we endure is of greater benefit to us. In other words, having direct knowledge of the afterlife would mean we would be motivated by reward (spiritual improvement) in our actions and would not suffer as much and therefore would not improve as much spiritually.
I don't think it was the intent of God or the 'universal consciousness' (assuming there is such) to reveal all to the satisfaction of everyone of us. For if it had, then surely we would all be believers. It all seems to be part of a greater plan to have it all this way.
I don't agree with some who believe mankind is not capable of understanding or comprehending this. For mankind not only has a great understanding of many difficult and complex areas of say science, but also
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What is going to happen to us when we die? Throughout history we've questioned if there is a life after death. Many religions have different views on what happens to us after we die but something they all have in common is that they offer hope of another life to those who believe. In this essay I will be looking at two of the biggest religions, Catholic and Islam, and how they respond to the significant religious question "Is there life after death."
Muslims believe that the present life is a trial in preparation for the next realm of existence. "And Allah grants respite to none when his appointed time comes. And Allah is All–Aware of what you do."
#11. This quote from the Qua ran tells them that Allah is always watching them and sees what they do in their lives and he will judge them on that when their time comes."Allah is all in all. Allah sees you, and is with you, wherever you are, whatever you do." Muslims believe in the continued existence of the soul and a transformed physical existence after death. Islam teaches that there will be a day of judgment when all humans will be divided between the eternal destinations of Paradise and Hell. Until the Day of Judgment, Muslims souls remain in their graves awaiting their resurrection. Muslims believe they begin to feel immediately a taste of their destiny to come. Those souls bound for hell will suffer in their graves "In front of such a one is Hell, and he is given, for
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Is There Life After Death? Essay
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To what extent does it make sense to talk about life after death? Nobody likes the idea that we are going to die. It's one of those things that pop into your head whenever you get comfortable, possibly as a subconscious motivational tool. Just in case you ever get really, truly at ease with your life it strikes you that it will all come to an end (possibly quite horribly) without your say–so or even prior notification. Many people find this not only rude but also decidedly inconvenient, and refuse to accept that their lovely lives could ever end. Others are content to allow existence is occasional bout of poor manners and go quietly. This essay is about the main ways...show more content...
In this he dismissed the soul as a category mistake, or a misuse of language. He even went so far as to coin a scornful phrase for his nemesis "the ghost in the machine" – a beautifully elegant term as it embodies both his belief of the body/mind (as for Ryle, the mind is physical organ and so part of the body) as a machine and the soul as the long jibed–by–science notion of ghosts. Ryle implored us to consider the poor foreigner who asks why the team spirit is late for the sports match, only to be mocked by those of us who understand that "team spirit" is merely a colloquial term for the collective banter of many men – not a separate entity of its own. Ryle saw talk of a soul in a similar fashion, as a way to describe the way a man behaves in the world and acts around others and that to say a soul is something separate is trying to justify something that isn't there. Unfortunately for Ryle he was speaking shortly after a very bloody war, to a nation who had just lost many loved ones, who were not really all too willing to accept they had simply been thrust into oblivion by the Nazi war machine. However we live in an altogether different time, far from any front line where we can keep the idea of death at a hypothetical arm's reach. So enters Richard Dawkins. Dawkins appears to be the classic godless heathen atheist, holding totally to his beliefs in the science of
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Death it happens to everyone, the question about American capital punishments is it humane to punish criminals by the great and last ultimatum of death. The fact that, death has numerous questions unanswered which leaves us uninformed. We have yet to discover life after death,individually we cannot continue to disregard the opportunity and taking advantage and discarding it.As a country we believe life is a game, however it's the opposite. We do not receive a second chance to achieve exceptional or worse . The real questions are ВЁCan it be our life's already scripted out, every second of our life wrote down, and recorded ? How we know what actually is life ? Can we be in a long never ending dream or maybe a comma ?(Lopez, Cnn)ВЁ These may seem like irrelevant questions, but it has an exceptionally complicated answer which no one can answer with facts. It can be as fictitious as statements stating that all of us dying someday. Rather society likes it or not we are aware of the possibility of death happening to us at any moment . For a variety of people death brings an unknown shiver against our bodies, but for small amount it brings a sense of calming and it is ridden with strength and a feel of accomplishment .However no one knows when exactly the inevitable will approach, but everyone knows it is inescapable. But what makes death seem further real to us and those in denial of it is the lucid pictures of women, men, and children dying. The death penalty may seem like a horrific torture, but did you know that it is available in 30 states? The killing of a criminal is something that is permitted by the government, which is a horrendous thing. There are several negativities with the death penalty;the fear of death force upon others, the ability that criminals are likely to receive redemption for their heinous crime, it is important for Americans to realize the prejudiced factors of the death penalty which should be abolished. Criminals who are on death trial have a very little disadvantage while trying to prove their case. The truth is that rather we accept it or not, taking life of someone is inhumane and ВЁcapital punishment is legalized murder .ВЁ(Flanagan, UC Berkeley) However this argument is weak
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Persuasive Essay On Life After Death
