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A cross on Morne Jean []. Haiti is a majority Christian country. Figures in 2020 suggest that 93% of the population belong to a Christian denomination. [1]Haiti saw the introduction of Christianity when Europeans arrived to colonize the island.
Following in this legacy, Catholicism was in the Haitian constitution as its official state religion until 1987. [4] According to recent estimates by the CIA World Factbook and Pew Research Center, between 55 and 60% of Haitians are Catholics. Pope John Paul II visited Haiti in 1983.
Christians believe that all people are born into a state of sin and separation from God, and that redemption is a necessary part of salvation in order to obtain eternal life. [2] Leon Morris says that "Paul uses the concept of redemption primarily to speak of the saving significance of the death of Christ." [3]
Seventh-day Adventists believe that death is a state of unconscious sleep until the resurrection. They base this belief on biblical texts such as Ecclesiastes 9:5 which states "the dead know nothing", and 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 which contains a description of the dead being raised from the grave at the second coming.
In this view, God's divine law requires that only the sacrificial death of a perfect human can atone for Adamic sin. Faith in the ransom of Jesus Christ—the Last Adam—is regarded as the only way to atone for sin and escape death. Jehovah's Witnesses [13] and the Seventh-day Adventist Church [14] are among the denominations that hold to this ...
Many Christians believe the dead are judged immediately after death and await judgment day in peace or torment because of the way they interpret several key New Testament passages. [2] In Luke 16:19–31 , it appears that Christ represents Lazarus and Dives as receiving their respective rewards immediately after death.
Haitian believe in Lwa/loa/loi which are recognized as spirits in Haitian Vodou. They would similarity compare their spirits to the Catholic saint's characteristics and attributes. Even though Christianity was constantly being forced onto Haitian people, Vodou continued to grow beneath Christian practices/symbolism.
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.