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St. Augustine believed that children who died unbaptized were damned. [1] In his Letter to Jerome, he wrote, [2]. Likewise, whosoever says that those children who depart out of this life without partaking of that sacrament shall be made alive in Christ, certainly contradicts the apostolic declaration, and condemns the universal Church, in which it is the practice to lose no time and run in ...
[note 3] The hope for life after death started with notions of going to the worlds of the Fathers or Ancestors and/or the world of the Gods or Heaven. [31] [note 4] The earliest Vedic texts incorporate the concept of life, followed by an afterlife in heaven and hell based on cumulative virtues (merit) or vices (demerit). [33]
Man proposes, heaven disposes; Manners maketh man; Many a little makes a mickle; Many a mickle makes a muckle; Many a true word is spoken in jest; Many hands make light work; March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb; Marriages are made in heaven [16] [17] [18] Marry in haste, repent at leisure; Memory is the treasure of the mind
Firdaus is used in Qu'ran 18:107 and 23:11 [14] and also designates the highest level of heaven. [15] In contrast to Jannah, the words Jahannam, an-Nār, jaheem, saqar, and other terms are used to refer to the concept of hell. There are many Arabic words for both Heaven and Hell that also appear in the Qu'ran and in the Hadith. Most of them ...
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, heaven is the parcel of deification , meaning to acquire a divine nature and complete one's hypostasis via Christlike behavior, due to Jesus having made human entry into heaven possible by his incarnation, hence evidence of one's divine nature is usually miracles akin to those of Christ. [11] [12]
Theosis and divinization are distinguished from sanctification, "being made holy," which can also apply to objects; [22] and from apotheosis, also "divinization," lit. ' making divine ' ). Catholics believe faith which is active in charity and good works ( fides caritate formata ) can justify, or remove the burden of guilt in sin, from man.
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The lowest dome of heaven was made of jasper and was the home of the stars. [10] [11] The middle dome of heaven was made of saggilmut stone and was the abode of the Igigi. [10] [11] The highest and outermost dome of heaven was made of luludānītu stone and was personified as An, the god of the sky.