The End of Life

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The End of Life

• What you need to know
• Test yourself
• Tips for answering questions

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Course Content

1. The ways in which Christians understand the
   distinction between body and soul
2. Christian understandings of heaven, hell and
   purgatory and the concept of God as judge, the
   relation between moral behaviour and the
   afterlife
3. Christian funeral rites, and the ways in which
   these reflect belief and aim to support the
   bereaved

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Key Words

• Judgement Resurrection
• Immortal Mourn
• Grief Bereavement
• Soul Heaven
• Hell Purgatory
• Funeral

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What is the soul?

• Can you remember 8 points about the soul?
• Body, mind and soul B
• Unlike animals A
• Breath of life B
• Platos ideas P
• Resurrection is proof R
• Gods image I
• Conflict between body and soul C
• Eternal E

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What is the soul?

• Complete the following key quotes
• So God created man in
• If there is a natural body
• Now write out the 8 key points from the soul
  again to see if you can still remember them

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What are heaven and hell like?
where God and angels are thought to live a very
pleasant place or condition
 Heaven -
 Hell -
 where wicked people are thought to be punished
after they die a very unpleasant place or
condition
(Purgatory a place of temporary suffering in
Roman Catholic belief a place where souls are
made clean by suffering before they can enter
heaven)
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What are heaven and hell like?

• Can you describe the traditional views of heaven
  and hell?
• Who goes to heaven and to hell? Do all
  Christians agree about who goes where?
• What are the more modern / liberal
  interpretations of heaven and hell?
• Why do some Christians find it hard to believe in
  hell as a real place?
• What is purgatory, who believes in it, and why do
  they believe in it?

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How will people be judged in the next life?

• God is omniscient so knows us better than we
  know ourselves. He will judge everyone on their
  actions from this life.
• What two things is judgement based on?

What does this picture show about how people are
judged?
Why are the goats to the left and below the sheep?
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What is the purpose of funerals?

• For Christians, death is not the end of life
  funerals remind them of this as well as offering
  comfort and support to mourners
• You need to know the 9 key features of a funeral
  service
• You need to know how Christian funerals differ
  what is different about a Quaker or Catholic
  funeral?

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What is the purpose of funerals?

• Gathering Greedy
• Hymns Hippos
• Readings sermon Really
• Eulogy Enjoy
• Prayers Pancakes
• Reflection Rhinos
• Commendation Cant
• Committal Cook
• Wake Waffles

A sentence like this can help you remember things
in the right order
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Key Quotes

• The soul
• So God created man in his own image
• the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the
  ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath
  of life, and the man became a living being.
• If there is a natural body, there is also a
  spiritual body.
• Judgement
• No one comes to the Father except through me.
• In my Fathers house there are many rooms
• Funerals
• 'I am the resurrection and the lifehe that
  believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall
  he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in me
  shall never die.'

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Part A Questions

1. What is death?
2. What is the soul?
3. What is purgatory?

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Part B Questions

1. What is meant by soul?
2. Describe two things that happen at a Christian
   funeral service.
3. Describe two Christian beliefs about how people
   will be judged when they die.

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Part C Questions

1. What do Christians believe about life after
   death?
2. Describe three purposes of a Christian funeral.
3. Describe three key Christian beliefs about heaven.

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Part D Questions

1. How may Christian funeral rites reflect beliefs
   about life after death?
2. Explain Christian beliefs about what happens to
   good people when they die.
3. Explain how Christians view the distinction
   between body and soul.
4. Explain what Christians believe about life after
   death
5. Explain Christian beliefs about how the way
   people live might affect what happens to them
   when they die
6. Explain how a Christian funeral service might
   comfort someone whose relative has died
7. Explain why Christians might believe that they
   should behave morally

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Part E Questions

• These questions ask you to Discuss this
  statement. You should include different,
  supported points of view and a personal
  viewpoint. You must refer to Christianity in
  your answer.
• When people die that is the end.
• People believe in life after death because they
  are afraid of dying.
• A forgiving God would not send people to hell.
• This life is more important than the next.
• Funeral services are for the living, not the
  dead.
• It cannot be true that there is life after
  death, because there is no evidence of it.