Year 11 Religious Studies - Section 2

Life after Death
1. What happens when you die?
  1. United with God
  2. Good life = eternal life in heaven
  3. Wait for second coming
    1. all the living and the dead are judged
  4. God judges you
  5. Heaven/Hell/Purgatory
  6. EVIDENCE: Parable of the sheep and the goats
  7. EVIDENCE: The Creed - "I believe in life everlasting...to judge the living and the dead
  8. EVIDENCE: 1 Corinthians 15, spiritual body given by God
  9. EVIDENCE: Jesus' resurrection, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
2. Life after death in the Catechism, Pope is infalible
3. Immortality of the Soul
4. Belief in the afterlife gives meaning to life
5. EVIDENCE: " I am the resurrection and life"
  1. EVIDENCE: "Anyone who believes in me will have life everlasting"
    1. EVIDENCE: "There are many rooms in my Father's house" - Jesus
  2. EVIDENCE: Jesus showed people the nail wounds in his hands
  3. EVIDENCE: The Catechism states that there is an afterlife and that we will be judges
Key Words
1. Abortion - The removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive
2. Assisted suicide - Providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide
3. Euthanasia - The painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease
4. Immortality of the Soul - The idea that the soul lives on after the body
5. Near-death experience - When someone about to die has an out-of-body experience
6. Non-voluntary euthanasia - Ending someone's life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you have good reasons for thinking they would want to do so
7. Paranormal - Unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes e.g. ghosts, mediums
8. Quality of Life - The belief that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living
9. Reincarnation - The belief that after death, souls are reborn into a new body
10. Resurrection - The belief that after death, the body remains in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised
11. Sanctity of Life - the belief that all life is holy and belongs to God
12. Voluntary euthanasia - Ending life painlessly when someone suffering in great pain asks for death
Non-religious reasons for beliefs in life after death
1. Mediums
2. Seeing ghosts
3. Paranormal activivty
4. TV programs e.g. Most Haunted
5. Psycics
6. Reincarnation
  1. EVIDENCE: Taranjit Singh, claimed he could remember a past life, proven right
7. Near-death experience
  1. EVIDENCE: Major surgery, meets someone in heaven
8. The Catholic Response - rejects the evidence of spiritual superstitions, "All forms of divination are to be rejected..."
The Sanctity of Life
1. EVIDENCE: Genesis 1:26-27
2. EVIDENCE: Psalm 139:13
3. EVIDENCE: Jeremiah 1:5
4. Evidence: 1 Corinthians 3:16-17
5. EVIDENCE: Isaiah 49:15
6. EVIDENCE: Job 1:21
7. QUOTE: "Everyone has the right to life" U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948
8. QUOTE: "I will maintain the utmost respect for human life, from the time of conception; even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity..." Hippocratic Oath
9. QUOTE: "The countries that proclaim abortion or allow it, are really the poorest of the poor" Mother Teresa
10. "Thou shall not murder" Exodus 20:13
11. QUOTE: "God created man in his own image"
12. EVIDENCE: "God created...and it was good. God created humans and it was VERY good"

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