Life After Death: The Book of Answers

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Buddhists maintain that rebirth takes place without an unchanging self or soul passing from one form to another. [96] The type of rebirth will be conditioned by the moral tone of the person's actions ( kamma or karma). For example, if a person has committed harmful actions by body, speech and mind based on greed, hate and delusion, would have his/her rebirth in a lower realm, i.e. an animal, a hungry ghost or a hell realm, is to be expected. On the other hand, where a person has performed skillful actions based on generosity, loving-kindness ( metta), compassion and wisdom, rebirth in a happy realm, i.e. human or one of the many heavenly realms, can be expected. [97] Ghazālī, Iḥyāʾ, v.157, trans. Winter p.221-2; quoted in Lange, Christian (2016). "Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies". In Christian Lange (ed.). Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions. BRILL. p.14. ISBN 978-90-04-30121-4. JSTOR 10.1163/j.ctt1w8h1w3.7. The Buddhist Society: Kamma – Actions and Results". www.thebuddhistsociety.org. Archived from the original on 20 November 2021 . Retrieved 20 November 2021. Is Gehenna a Place of Fiery Torment?". The Watchtower: 31. 1 April 2011. Archived from the original on 31 December 2014 . Retrieved 31 December 2014. McClelland, Norman (2018). Encyclopedia of Reincarnation and Karma. McFarland. pp.1–320. ISBN 978-0786456758.

The Celestial Kingdom is believed to be a place where the righteous can live eternally with their families. Progression does not end once one has entered the Celestial Kingdom, but extends eternally. According to "True to the Faith" (a handbook on doctrines in the LDS faith), "The celestial kingdom is the place prepared for those who have "received the testimony of Jesus" and been "made perfect through Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, who wrought out this perfect atonement through the shedding of his own blood" (Doctrine and Covenants, 76:51, 69). To inherit this gift, we must receive the ordinances of salvation, keep the commandments, and repent of our sins." [64] Jehovah's Witnesses [ edit ] This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) During the Age of Enlightenment, theologians and philosophers presented various philosophies and beliefs. A notable example is Emanuel Swedenborg who wrote some 18 theological works which describe in detail the nature of the afterlife according to his claimed spiritual experiences, the most famous of which is Heaven and Hell. [53] His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven (where all angels are married), children in heaven (where they are raised by angel parents), time and space in heaven (there are none), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits (a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell (as opposed to being sent to either one by God), the eternity of Hell (one could leave but would never want to), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth. [53] The Catholic Church [ edit ] Pope Gregory I repeats the concept, articulated over a century earlier by Gregory of Nyssa that the saved suffer purification after death, in connection with which he wrote of "purgatorial flames".

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Lange, Christian (2016). "Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies". Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions. BRILL. p.12. ISBN 978-90-04-30121-4. JSTOR 10.1163/j.ctt1w8h1w3.7. a b Bartlett, Sarah (2015). The Afterlife Bible: The Complete Guide to Otherworldly Experience. Octopus Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-84181-449-0. Tipler, Franl, J. (1997). The Physics of Immortality – Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead. Anchor. ISBN 978-0-385-46799-5. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) A central doctrine of Islamic faith is the Last Day ( al-yawm al-ākhir, also known by other names), [Note 2] on which the world will come to an end and God will raise all mankind (as well as the jinn) from the dead and evaluate their worldly actions. The resurrected will be judged according to their deeds, records of which are kept on two books compiled for every human being—one for their good deeds and one for their evil ones. [72] [73]The Poetic and Prose Eddas, the oldest sources for information on the Norse concept of the afterlife, vary in their description of the several realms that are described as falling under this topic. The most well-known are: Although there is no reference to reincarnation in the Talmud or any prior writings, [38] according to rabbis such as Avraham Arieh Trugman, reincarnation is recognized as being part and parcel of Jewish tradition. Trugman explains that it is through oral tradition that the meanings of the Torah, its commandments and stories, are known and understood. The classic work of Jewish mysticism, [39] the Zohar, is quoted liberally in all Jewish learning; in the Zohar the idea of reincarnation is mentioned repeatedly. Trugman states that in the last five centuries the concept of reincarnation, which until then had been a much hidden tradition within Judaism, was given open exposure. [39] Paulsen, David L.; Cook, Roger D.; Christensen, Kendel J. (2010). "The Harrowing of Hell: Salvation for the Dead in Early Christianity". Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture. 19 (1): 56–77. doi: 10.5406/jbookmormotheres.19.1.0056. ISSN 1948-7487. JSTOR 10.5406/jbookmormotheres.19.1.0056. S2CID 171733241. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022 . Retrieved 28 December 2022. Rebirth can take place as a god (deva), a human (manuṣya) an animal (tiryak) — but it is generally taught that the spiritual evolution takes place from lower to higher species. In certain cases of traumatic death a person can take the form of a Preta or Hungry Ghost – and remains in an earth-bound state interminably – until certain ceremonies are done to liberate them. This mythological part is extensively elaborated in the Hindu Puranas especially in the Garuda Purana.

a b Sayers, Matthew R. (May 2008). Feeding the ancestors: ancestor worship in ancient Hinduism and Buddhism (Thesis thesis). Archived from the original on 20 September 2022 . Retrieved 16 September 2022.The non-canonical Acts of Paul and Thecla speak of the efficacy of prayer for the dead so that they might be "translated to a state of happiness". [49] Unfinished Business offers a unique perspective on learning about the afterlife: the viewpoint of those who have already crossed over. Charles Hartshorne, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (Albany: State University of New York, 1984) p.32–36 Millais Culpin. (1920). Spiritualism and the New Psychology, an Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge. Kennelly Press. ISBN 978-1-4460-5651-6

John 5:24 "The New American Bible". Vatican.va. Archived from the original on 2 August 2013 . Retrieved 8 March 2014. Alice refuses to believe her mother abandoned her, Egyptians also believed that being mummified and put in a sarcophagus (an ancient Egyptian "coffin" carved with complex symbols and designs, as well as pictures and hieroglyphs) was the only way to have an afterlife. What are referred to as the Coffin Texts, are inscribed on a coffin and serve as a guide for the challenges in the afterlife. The Coffin texts are more or less a duplication of the Pyramid Texts, which would serve as a guide for Egyptian pharaohs or queens in the afterlife. [17] Only if the corpse had been properly embalmed and entombed in a mastaba, could the dead live again in the Fields of Yalu and accompany the Sun on its daily ride. Due to the dangers the afterlife posed, the Book of the Dead was placed in the tomb with the body as well as food, jewelry, and 'curses'. They also used the "opening of the mouth". [18] [19] Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon is already in the afterlife when we first meet her. She mysteriously disappeared in 1973, and her story hasn’t yet come to light. Heaven is often described as a "higher place", the holiest place, a paradise, in contrast to hell or the underworld or the "low places", and universally or conditionally accessible by earthly beings according to various standards of divinity, goodness, piety, faith or other virtues or right beliefs or the will of God. Some believe in the possibility of a heaven on Earth in a world to come.Kurtz, Paul (2001). Skeptical Odysseys: Personal Accounts by the World's Leading Paranormal Inquirers. Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1-57392-884-7. Philip C Almond, Afterlife: A History of Life after Death, London and Ithaca NY: I.B. Tauris and Cornell University Press, 2015.