The document discusses concepts of life after death in major world religions, including heaven, hell, and purgatory. Heaven is described as a holy place where righteous souls reside in an afterlife, while hell is a place of suffering and punishment. Purgatory is portrayed as a state of purification for souls not yet ready for heaven. The concepts are represented in religious artworks depicting scenes from the afterlife. Entertainment media also reference the afterlife in films, books and music exploring supernatural themes.
2. In most religions, Heaven is a realm, either
Heaven physical or transcendental in which people
who have died continue to exist in an
afterlife.
Heaven is often described as the holiest place,
accessible by people according to various
standards of divinity, goodness, piety, faith or
other virtues.
Purgatory is the condition or process of
Hell purification or temporary punishment in
which, it is believed, the souls of those who die
in a state of grace are made ready for Heaven.
In many religious traditions, Hell is a place of
Purgatory suffering and punishment in the afterlife.
3. Christians believe that God is just and fair, and so cannot let evil go unpunished. Most
believe in the idea of judgment after death, and that God will treat people in the afterlife
according to how they lived their life on earth.
✟Even though heaven is often mentioned in the Bible, it is rarely described. Christians
therefore have very different ideas about it. Some believe that heaven is a physical
place, where their body goes after death. Others believe that it is their soul that lives
on, and that heaven is a state of being united with God. Although most would like to
believe that it is a place full of angels.
✟The Bible is even less specific about hell, and Christians have very different ideas
about this too. Some Christians believe that hell is a place of suffering, and of separation
from God. Others believe that hell is a spiritual state of being separated from God for
eternity.
✟Some Christians, including Roman Catholics, believe in purgatory. This is an
in-between state for the majority of people of waiting for heaven, a time of cleansing
from sin and preparing for heaven.
6. Heaven
Dante and Beatrice gaze
upon the highest heavens;
from Gustave Doré's
illustrations to the Divine "Stairway to Heaven " by Jim
Comedy. Warren
Fresco Painting Depicting Jesus
Christ Enthroned In Heaven
with Angels
7. Hell
Medieval illustration of Hell
in the Hortus deliciarum
manuscript of Herrad of
Landsberg (about 1180)
A vision of Hell from
Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Illustration by Gustave
Doré.
Giotto ("The Last Judgment")
8. Purgatory
Image of a fiery purgatory
in the Très Riches Heures
du Duc de Berry
A depiction of purgatory by
Venezuelan painter Cristóbal
Rojas (1890) representing the
boundary between heaven
(above) and hell (below) Dante gazes at purgatory in this
16th century painting.
9. Life and Death is represented in
many ways other than in religion
and art; that is in Entertainment
such as music videos, films and
books
10. The popularity of TV programmers and films
about the supernatural suggests that many
people believe that there is a form of life after
death,, in the sense of ghosts, poltergeists and
psychic experiences. Some people under
hypnosis claim that they are even able to recall
events from their previous lives.
11. A night at the movies turns into a nightmare
when Michael and his date are attacked by a
hoard of bloody-thirsty zombies - only
"Thriller" can save them now.
12.
13. Dead Like Me is an
American-Canadian
comedy-drama
television series
starring Ellen Muth
and Mandy Patinkin
as grim reapers who
"live" and work in
Seattle, Washington.
14. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being
raped and murdered, watches from Heaven as
her family and friends struggle to move on
with their lives while she comes to terms with
her own death.
15. When the Imperial prison barge Purge —
temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy's
most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels and thieves
— breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of
space, its only hope seems to lie with a Star
Destroyer found drifting, derelict and seemingly
abandoned. But when a boarding party is sent to
scavenge for parts, only half of them come back —
bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that
within hours, nearly all aboard the Purge will die in
ways too hideous to imagine.
And death is only the
beginning.
The Purge's half-dozen survivors — two teenage
brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple
of rogue smugglers and the chief medical officer,
the lone woman on board — will do whatever it
takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them
for what lies waiting onboard the Star Destroyer
amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn't really
empty at all. The dead are rising, soulless,
unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.
16.
17. "Does heaven really have pearly gates?"
"Is purgatory closer to heaven
or to hell?"
"Is hell all fire and brimstone?"
