There are three possible destinations immediately after the judgment, heaven, hell or purgatory. Those whose love for God has been perfected in this life have their bodies glorified and taken immediately to their eternal reward in Heaven (Robinson, at (http://www
There is a similar theme throughout the four religions that are presented in this paper, and that is, people who are decent citizens while on the earth will be rewarded with a pleasant afterlife, and those who are evil while on earth will go elsewhere -- call it hell, or hell-fire. In Hinduism, too, the belief is that the way people behave in their physical life affects the way they will live "in the next" life (Gerner, 2008)
In the Old Testament there are many passages that refer to the afterlife, including Job 20:26: "And when after my skin this is destroyed. Then without my flesh shall I see God" (Morse, 2005, p
For this reason I think, not that the ancients acted rashly and at haphazard in introducing among the people notions concerning the gods and beliefs in the terrors of hell, but that the moderns are most rash and foolish in banishing such beliefs." (Grant 1960) Lucretius was an influential figure in Rome but he was not an advocate of religion
Further, spirit is a temporary guest residing in this physical shape such that once a person dies, the spirit will depart the physical shape and ascend to Heaven. (Jingshan, 1995) Indeed, Chong asserted that there was an afterlife and that individual must understand what occurs at death
Lucretius believed that religion created all sorts of evil and misery. (Sloan 2001) The philosopher asserted that people simply used religion to escape reality -- he believed that religion was a method of avoidance
Others perform bad deeds and yet gain good fortune; this is a case where the nature is bad but fate is good. (Smith 1991) Indeed some of the beliefs that Chong possessed were related to Confucianism which is deeply embedded into Chinese culture
Indeed, a review of the major religions of the world shows that virtually all of them contain some reference to an afterlife, and these references are truly ancient, predating even the Egyptians' and Sumerians' elaborate concepts of an afterlife. In fact, the practice of mummification indicates a belief in the afterlife which goes back to the beginnings of human history and is suggested by Neanderthal burials more than 50,000 years ago (Burland 3)
According to this author, "Among the apocalyptic works in Jewish literature perhaps none offers as rich and evocative a picture of the afterlife as the collection known as the Enoch texts, especially 1 Enoch. This pseudepigraphic work, probably composed around the third century BCE, tells the story of Enoch's spiritual wanderings in the worlds of Sheol or Gehinnom, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, heaven or paradise" (Nadler 50)
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