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