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  2. Afterlife - Wikipedia

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    The belief in the rebirth after death became the driving force behind funeral practices; for them, death was a temporary interruption rather than complete cessation of life. Eternal life could be ensured by means like piety to the gods, preservation of the physical form through mummification , and the provision of statuary and other funerary ...

  3. Eternal life (Christianity) - Wikipedia

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    The holiness of eternal life includes freedom from temptation and sin and the possession of virtue and grace, which after death is matured as impeccability (the inability to be tempted or commit sin because one is so holy that one only wills what God wills), [43] and the happiness of eternal life includes love, joy, and peace during suffering ...

  4. Heaven in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    The terrestrial kingdom's power and glory is comparable to that of the moon, and is reserved for those who understood and rejected the full gospel in life but lived good lives; those who did accept the gospel but failed to keep their covenants through continuing the process of faith, repentance, and service to others; those who "died without ...

  5. Entering heaven alive - Wikipedia

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    The dispensationalist belief in a "rapture"—a belief rejected by Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and most Protestants—is drawn from a reference to "being caught up" as found in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, when the "dead in Christ" and "we who are alive and remain" will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord, though Christians differ on ...

  6. Purgatory - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic church found specific Old Testament support in after-life purification in 2 Maccabees 12:42–45, [9] part of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Church of the East biblical canons but regarded as apocryphal by Protestants and major branches of Judaism.

  7. History of purgatory - Wikipedia

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    Roman Catholics who believe in purgatory interpret New Testament passages such as 2 Timothy 1:18, Matthew 12:32, Luke 23:43, 1 Corinthians 3:11–3:15 and Hebrews 12:29 as supporting prayer for souls who are believed to be alive in an active, interim state after death, undergoing purifying flames (which could be interpreted as analogy or ...

  8. Hell in Catholicism - Wikipedia

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    Hell in Catholicism is the "state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed" [1] which occurs by the refusal to repent of mortal sin before one's death, since mortal sin deprives one of sanctifying grace.

  9. Four last things - Wikipedia

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    Hieronymus Bosch's 1500 painting The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.The four outer discs depict (clockwise from top left) Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. In Christian eschatology, the Four Last Things (Latin: quattuor novissima) [1] are Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell, the four last stages of the soul in life and the afterlife.

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