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God and the Afterlife Free FREE GOD AND THE AFTERLIFE PDF Jeffery D. Long | 256 pages | 28 Jun 2016 | HarperCollins Publishers Inc | 9780062279545 | English | New York, United States Beyond Death: The Science of the Afterlife | Time It is also one of many stunning passages describing the afterlife compiled in Bart D. Readers are treated to God and the Afterlife from such works as the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Passion of Perpetua. Ehrman is no stranger to bold claims about the roots of Christianity. Human motives frequently shape views of afterlife. The human need for justice reappears time and again. Understanding the afterlife also involves understanding how cultures viewed the body and its worth. After all, the text begins by acknowledging how central the dual notions of paradise and hell are to modern Christian beliefs. In the US alone, nearly 70 per cent of people believe in a literal heaven after death, while just under 60 per cent also believe in hell. Whatever your belief system may be, we are living in an age in which, for many of us, coronavirus has thrust death before our eyes like never before. It does us all good God and the Afterlife think about what might come after. Views of the afterlife in early Christianity. Popular articles. Could the Soviet Union Have Survived? Distortions and Omissions. Which way are you going? | History Today The Christian end-time expectation is directed not only God and the Afterlife the future of the church but also at the future of the individual believer. It includes definite conceptions of the personal continuance of life after death. Many baptized early Christians were convinced they would not die at all but would still experience the advent of Christ in their lifetimes and would go directly into the Kingdom of God without death. In the early imminent expectation, the period God and the Afterlife death and the coming of the Kingdom still constituted no object of concern. The antithesis to eternal life is not earthly life but eternal death. Eternal life is personal life, and precisely therein is fulfilled the essence of humanity created according to the image of God. Within eternal life there are differences. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. So it is with the resurrection of the dead 1 Corinthians — This expectation has had a great influence upon the Christian conception of marriage and friendship. The Western concept of personality was thus deepened through the Christian view of its eternal value. The delay of God and the Afterlife imminent expectation brought about the question of the fate of the dead person in the period between the death of the individual Christian and the resurrection. Two basic views were developed. One view is that of an individual judgment, which takes place immediately after death and brings the individual to an interim state, from which he enters into the realm of bliss or that of perdition. The idea of an individual judgment, however, cannot be readily harmonized with the concept of the general Last Judgment on the day of the general resurrection of the dead. It anticipates the decision of the general judgment and thus deprives of its significance the notion of the Last Judgment. A second view, therefore, also prevailed: the sleep of the soul—i. At the Last Judgment the resurrected will be assigned either to eternal life or eternal damnation. This conception, accepted in many churches, contains many discrepancies, especially the abandonment of the fundamental idea of the continuity of personal life. Both views contain an inhuman consequence. The first leaves to people no further opportunity to improve the mistakes of their lives and God and the Afterlife expiate their guilt. The God and the Afterlife preserves the personality in an intermediate state for an indefinite period so as to later punish it for sins or reward it for good deeds from a time prior to entrance into the sleep of the soul. God and the Afterlife presupposition of the doctrine of purgatory is that there is a special judgment for each individual at once after death. Hence, the logical conclusion God and the Afterlife that purgatory ceases with the Last Judgment. The stay in purgatory can be shortened through intercessionalms, indulgencesand benefits of the sacrifice of the mass. The Eastern Orthodox Church has no doctrine of purgatory but does practice an intercession for the dead. It assumes that, on the basis of the connection between the church of the living and that of the dead, an exertion of influence upon the fate of the dead through intercession is possible before the time of the Last Judgment. The beginnings of a further development of the Christian view God and the Afterlife life after death, as are found in Swedenborg, have never been recognized positively by the church. For this reasonsince the period of Romanticism and idealism, ideas of the transmigration of souls and reincarnationtaken over from Hinduism and Buddhismhave gained a footing in Christian views of the end-time expectation. Some important impulses toward a new understanding of the view of life after death are found in Christian theosophy, such as the idea of a further development of the human personality upon other celestial bodies after death. For the most part, the churches of the early part of the 21st century have long neglected teachings about the entire area of the last things. The idea of the Last Judgment has often become incomprehensible to the modern world. At the most, people apparently are still open to the concept of God and the Afterlife of the guilt and innocence of the individual. This corresponds to the fundamental Christian idea that human beings—both the living and the dead—are bound together in an indissoluble communion; it presupposes the conception God and the Afterlife the church as the body of Christ. All of humanity is as one person. The judgment upon each person, therefore, concerns all. Judgment upon the individual is thus at the same time judgment upon the whole, and vice versa. The Judgment is also public in regard to the positive side—the praise and reward of God for that which is done rightly and practiced in the common life, often without knowing it. Christianity Article Media Additional Info. Article Contents. Load Previous Page. Concepts of life after death The Christian end-time expectation is directed not only at the future of the church but also at the future of the individual believer. Candles in a cemetery on All Souls' Day. Load Next Page. | God And The Afterlife | | Jeffrey Long | Boeken Geschreven bij God and the Afterlife. Heldere en goed leesbare uiteenzetting over de aard van God de Bron, de Oorsprong voor de niet- gelovigen zoals die blijkt uit de beschrijvingen van honderden personen die God ontmoetten in een bijna-dood-ervaring, en die behoorlijk afwijkt van de traditionele interpretatie van Christendom en Islam. Geen straffende boeman hier. God and the Afterlife is ook de beschrijving die Long geeft van zijn God and the Afterlife naar deze ervaringen en van de organisatie die hij daarvoor heeft opgezet. Levertijd We doen er alles aan om dit artikel op God and the Afterlife te bezorgen. Het is echter in een enkel geval mogelijk dat door omstandigheden de bezorging vertraagd is. Bezorgopties We bieden verschillende opties aan voor het bezorgen of ophalen van je bestelling. Welke opties voor jouw bestelling beschikbaar zijn, zie je bij God and the Afterlife afronden van de bestelling. Taal: Engels. Auteur: Jeffrey Long Paul Perry. Uitgever: HarperCollins Publishers Inc. Co-auteur: Paul Perry Perry. Samenvatting Based on the largest near-death experience study in history, involving 3, people from diverse backgrounds and religious traditions, including nonbelievers, God and the Afterlife presents startling evidence that a Supreme Being exists—and there is amazing consistency about what he is like. In his bestselling book Evidence of the Afterlife, Dr. Jeffrey Long showed us that there is a strong scientific case for life after death. Now, he goes further, revealing evidence that God is real. Long studied God and the Afterlife stories of thousands of people who have journeyed to the afterlife. Though there are a wide variety of differences in how people experience NDEs—some see a bright light, others go through a tunnel, still others experience a review of their life—he discovered that many of the accounts shared a remarkably similar description of God; a Supreme Being who radiated love and grace. Expanding on his analysis begun in Evidence of the Afterlife, God and the Afterlife is the first intensive exploration of the people who have reported going to the frontier of heaven, met God, and have returned to share their journey. Groundbreaking and profound, it provides new insight into the human experience and expands our notions of mortality, offering possibility, hope, and comfort. Toon meer Toon minder. Overige kenmerken Extra groot lettertype Nee Gewicht g Verpakking breedte God and the Afterlife Verpakking hoogte mm Verpakking lengte mm. Reviews Schrijf een review. Aantal reviews: 1. VincentMM Amsterdam 22 januari Ik raad dit product aan. Toegankelijk Heldere boodschap mooie hardcover uitgave met goed leesbare druk. 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