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  2. Spiritual death in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    The phrase spiritual death is not found in Protestant scriptures, and definitions of the concept thus vary among Protestant Christians. Spiritual death is distinct from physical death and the second death. According to the doctrine of original sin, all people have a sinful nature and thus commit sin, and are thereby spiritually dead.

  3. Intermediate state (Christianity) - Wikipedia

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    They would, upon their death, cease consciousness, and gain it again at the time of the resurrection having experienced no time lapse. For them, time would thus be suspended, as if they moved immediately from death to resurrection and the General Judgment of the Judgment Day. John Milton De doctrina christiana 1:13; Thomas Hobbes Leviathan ch ...

  4. Religious experience - Wikipedia

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    The underlying theme here is that God, the perfect goodness, [65] is known or experienced at least as much by the heart as by the intellect since, in the words of 1 John 4:16: "God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God and God in him." Some approaches to classical mysticism would consider the first two phases as preparatory to the ...

  5. Harrowing of Hell - Wikipedia

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    The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "By the expression 'He descended into Hell', the Apostles' Creed confesses that Jesus did really die and through his death for us conquered death and the devil 'who has the power of death' (Hebrews 2:14). In his human soul united to his divine person, the dead Christ went down to the realm of the dead.

  6. Christian mysticism - Wikipedia

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    But in stressing love, John shifts the goal of spiritual growth away from knowledge/gnosis, which he presents more in terms of Stoic ideas about the role of reason as being the underlying principle of the universe and as the spiritual principle within all people. Although John does not follow up on the Stoic notion that this principle makes ...

  7. Christian mortalism - Wikipedia

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    The idea that the spirit continues as a conscious, active, and independent agent after mortal death is an important teaching of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Concerning the post-death, pre-judgment place of human spirits, LDS scripture states that "the spirits of all men, whether they be good or evil, are taken home to ...

  8. Oahspe: A New Bible - Wikipedia

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    Oahspe (the word is defined as "sky, earth (corpor) and spirit. The all; the sum of corporeal and spiritual knowledge as at present" [7]) was published in 1882. Newbrough started writing the book in 1880 and stated that the writing was done automatically; he had been a spiritualist since the early 1870s.

  9. Heaven in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    God the Father does not come into the terrestrial kingdom, but Jesus Christ visits them and the Holy Spirit is given to them. The telestial kingdom is comparable to the glory of the stars. Those placed in the telestial kingdom suffered the pains of Hell after death because they were liars, murderers, adulterers, whoremongers, etc. They are ...