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CRITICISM BELIEF HEAVEN ARGUMENT REBUTTAL ATHEISM NOTES REFERENCES PRINT DOCUMENTARIES EXTERNAL LINKS EDIT ETYMOLOGY MODERN ENGLISH WORD HEAVEN DERIVES FROM WORD HEVEN AROUND WHICH DEVELOPED FROM ENGLISH HEOFON AROUND REFERRING CHRISTIANIZED PLACE WHERE DWELLS EARLIER MEANING FIRMAMENT ATTESTED FROM AROUND BEOWULF THIS COGNATE WITH OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES SAXON HEAVEN MIDDLE GERMAN HEVEN ICELANDIC HIMINN HEAVEN GOTHIC HIMINS POSSIBLY WITH ADDITION SUFFIX FRISIAN HIMEL HIMUL HEAVEN SAXON HIMIL MIDDLE DUTCH MODERN DUTCH HEMEL HIGH GERMAN HIMIL MODERN GERMAN HIMMEL WHICH DERIVE FROM RECONSTRUCTED PROTO-GERMANIC HEMINA- EDIT GENERAL ORIGINS WHILE THERE ABUNDANT VARIED SOURCES CONCEPTIONS HEAVEN TYPICAL BELIEVER'S VIEW APPEARS DEPEND LARGELY RELIGIOUS TRADITION PARTICULAR SECT SOME RELIGIONS CONCEPTUALIZE HEAVEN PERTAINING SOME TYPE PEACEFUL LIFE AFTER DEATH RELATED IMMORTALITY SOUL HEAVEN GENERALLY CONSTRUED PLACE HAPPINESS SOMETIMES ETERNAL HAPPINESS PSYCHOLOGICAL READING SACRED RELIGIOUS TEXTS ACROSS CULTURES THROUGHOUT HISTORY WOULD DESCRIBE TERM SIGNIFYING STATE FULL ALIVENESS WHOLENESS ANCIENT JUDAISM BELIEF HEAVEN AFTERLIFE CONNECTED WITH THAT SHEOL MENTIONED ISAIAH PSALMS SOME SCHOLARS ASSERTED THAT SHEOL EARLIER CONCEPT THIS THEORY UNIVERSALLY HELD LATER JEWISH SECT THAT MAINTAINED BELIEF RESURRECTION DEAD KNOWN PHARISEES OPPOSED THEM WERE SADDUCEES DENIED DOCTRINE RESURRECTION MATT CHRISTIANITY HEAVEN EITHER ETERNALLY BLESSED LIFE AFTER DEATH RETURN PRE-FALLEN STATE HUMANITY SECOND GARDEN EDEN WHICH HUMANITY REUNITED WITH PERFECT NATURAL STATE ETERNAL EXISTENCE GENERALLY THEY BELIEVE THIS AFTERDEATH REUNION ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH FAITH THAT JESUS CHRIST DIED SINS HUMANITY CROSS RESURRECTED BODILY ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN EXAMPLES DIFFERENT TERMINOLOGY REFERENCING CONCEPT HEAVEN CHRISTIAN BIBLE KINGDOM HEAVEN MATTHEW KINGDOM FATHER MATTHEW LIFE MATTHEW LIFE EVERLASTING MATTHEW LORD MATTHEW GREAT REWARD MATTHEW KINGDOM MARK KINGDOM CHRIST LUKE HOUSE FATHER JOHN CITY HEAVENLY JERUSALEM HEBR HOLY PLACE HEBREWS HOLIES PARADISE CORINTHIANS INCORRUPTIBLE CROWN CORINTHIANS CROWN LIFE JAMES CROWN JUSTICE TIMOTHY CROWN GLORY PETER DIVERSITY REFERENCES MAKE PROBABLE THAT TERM REFERS DIRECT EXPERIENCE FULL SPIRITUAL ALIVENESS UNITY WITH CITATION NEEDED SOME EASTERN RELIGIONS SOME WESTERN TRADITIONS BELIEVE REINCARNATION MOKSHA LIBERATION INSTEAD HEAVEN SOME STILL INCLUDE CONCEPT HEAVEN SIMILAR NECESSARILY SAME CONCEPT HELD CHRISTIANITY CITATION NEEDED EXAMPLE BUDDHISM THERE SEVERAL HEAVENS WHICH STILL PART SAMSARA ILLUSIONARY REALITY THOSE ACCUMULATE GOOD KARMA REBORN THEM HOWEVER THEIR STAY HEAVEN ETERNAL—EVENTUALLY THEY WILL THEIR GOOD KARMA WILL UNDERGO DIFFERENT REBIRTH INTO ANOTHER REALM HUMANS ANIMALS OTHER BEINGS BECAUSE HEAVEN TEMPORARY PART SAMSARA BUDDHISTS FOCUS MORE ESCAPING CYCLE REBIRTH REACHING ENLIGHTENMENT BODHI NATIVE CHINESE CONFUCIAN TRADITIONS HEAVEN TIAN IMPORTANT CONCEPT WHERE ANCESTORS RESIDE FROM WHICH EMPERORS DREW THEIR MANDATE RULE THEIR DYNASTIC PROPAGANDA EXAMPLE HINDU BELIEF LIKEWISE HEAVEN—CALLED SWARGA LOKA—IS SEEN TRANSITORY PLACE SOULS GOOD DEEDS WHOSE ACTIONS ENOUGH MOKSHA MERGING UNION WITH BRAHMAN CITATION NEEDED SOME FAITHS TEACH THAT ENTERS HEAVEN MOMENT DEATH WHILE OTHERS TEACH THAT THIS OCCURS LATER TIME SOME CHRISTIANITY ALONG WITH OTHER MAJOR RELIGIONS MAINTAIN THAT ENTRY INTO HEAVEN AWAITS SUCH TIME WHEN FORM THIS WORLD PASSED AWAY JPII RELATED OFTEN CONFUSED CONCEPTS HEAVEN CHRISTIANITY BETTER DESCRIBED RESURRECTION BODY WHICH EXCLUSIVELY BIBLICAL ORIGIN CONTRASTED WITH IMMORTALITY SOUL WHICH ALSO EVIDENT GREEK TRADITION FIRST CONCEPT SOUL DOES ENTER HEAVEN UNTIL LAST JUDGEMENT TIME WHEN ALONG WITH BODY RESURRECTED JUDGED SECOND CONCEPT SOUL GOES HEAVEN ANOTHER PLANE IMMEDIATELY AFTER DEATH THESE CONCEPTS GENERALLY COMBINED DOCTRINE DOUBLE JUDGEMENT WHERE SOUL JUDGED ONCE DEATH GOES TEMPORARY HEAVEN WHILE AWAITING SECOND FINAL PHYSICAL JUDGEMENT WORLD JPII ALSO ESCHATOLOGY AFTERLIFE IDEA HEAVEN PHYSICAL PLACE EXISTED SINCE DAWN RELIGION HUMAN CIVILIZATION CITATION NEEDED SOME EARLY RELIGIONS SUCH ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FAITH HEAVEN PHYSICAL PLACE ABOVE EARTH DARK AREA SPACE WHERE THERE WERE STARS BASICALLY BEYOND UNIVERSE DEPARTED SOULS WOULD UNDERGO LITERAL JOURNEY REACH HEAVEN ALONG WHICH THERE COULD EXIST HAZARDS OTHER ENTITIES ATTEMPTING DENY REACHING HEAVEN POPULAR MEDIEVAL VIEW HEAVEN THAT EXISTED PHYSICAL PLACE ABOVE CLOUDS THAT ANGELS WERE PHYSICALLY ABOVE WATCHING OVER WITH DAWN REASON SCIENCE BEGAN CHALLENGE THIS NOTION CITATION NEEDED HOWEVER HEAVEN PHYSICAL PLACE SURVIVED CONCEPT THAT LOCATED INTO SPACE THAT STARS WERE LIGHTS SHINING THROUGH FROM HEAVEN SEVERAL WORKS WRITTEN FILMED SCIENCE FICTION HAVE PLOTS WHICH HEAVEN REACHED LIVING THROUGH TECHNOLOGICAL MEANS EXAMPLE DISNEY FILM BLACK HOLE WHICH MANNED SPACECRAFT FOUND BOTH HEAVEN ANOTHER DIMENSION HELL LOCATED BOTTOM BLACK HOLE MODERN SCIENCE SPACE FLIGHT IDEA THAT HEAVEN PHYSICAL PLACE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE LARGELY BEEN ABANDONED CITATION NEEDED RELIGIOUS VIEWS HOWEVER STILL HOLD HEAVEN HAVING DUAL STATUS CONCEPT MIND HEART ALSO POSSIBLY STILL PHYSICALLY EXISTING SOME ANOTHER PLANE EXISTENCE DIMENSION PERHAPS FUTURE TIME CITATION NEEDED ACCORDING SCIENCE THERE UNOBSERVABLE AREAS UNIVERSE EVERYWHERE BEYOND EARTH'S PARTICLE HORIZON ALTHOUGH THEIR VERY NATURE POSSIBLE OBSERVE THEM CITATION NEEDED CHRISTIANITY BELIEVED THAT HEAVEN SPIRITUAL PLACE UNREACHABLE HUMANS ONLY ENTERED AFTER DEATH SPIRITUAL LOCATION COULD LOCATED SOMEWHERE WITHIN KNOWN UNIVERSE HUMANS WOULD UNAWARE PRESENCE UNABLE COULD LOCATED ANOTHER DIMENSION PLANE EXISTENCE CITATION NEEDED MANY TODAY'S BIBLICAL SCHOLARS SUCH WRIGHT TRACING CONCEPT HEAVEN BACK JEWISH ROOTS EARTH HEAVEN OVERLAPPING INTERLOCKING HEAVEN KNOWN GOD'S SPACE DIMENSION PLACE THAT REACHED HUMAN TECHNOLOGY THIS BELIEF STATES THAT HEAVEN WHERE LIVES REIGNS WHILST BEING ACTIVE WORKING ALONGSIDE PEOPLE EARTH WHEN RESTORES THINGS HEAVEN EARTH WILL FOREVER COMBINED INTO 'NEW HEAVENS' 'NEW EARTH' EDIT ENTRANCE INTO HEAVEN ALSO SALVATION SOTERIOLOGY RELIGIONS THAT TEACH ABOUT HEAVEN DIFFER GETS INTO TYPICALLY AFTERLIFE MOST ENTRANCE HEAVEN CONDITIONAL HAVING LIVED GOOD LIFE WITHIN TERMS SPIRITUAL SYSTEM NOTABLE EXCEPTION THIS 'SOLA FIDE' BELIEF MANY MAINSTREAM PROTESTANT SECTS CITATION NEEDED WHICH TEACHES THAT ONLY HAVE LIVE GOOD LIFE CITATION NEEDED TEACHES THAT ENTRANCE HEAVEN CONDITIONAL BELIEF ACCEPTANCE JESUS CHRIST ASSUMING GUILT SINNER RATHER THAN RESPONSIBILITY ONE'S ACTIONS CITATION NEEDED REGARDLESS GOOD 'WORKS' PARTICIPATED CITATION NEEDED DUAL-COVENANT THEOLOGY VARIANT THIS BELIEF THAT EXEMPTS JEWS FROM HAVING ADOPT JESUS SAVIOR CONDITION ENTRY HEAVEN CITATION NEEDED MANY RELIGIONS STATE THAT THOSE HEAVEN WILL PLACE WITHOUT PRESENCE HELL WHICH ETERNAL ANNIHILATIONISM SOME RELIGIONS BELIEVE THAT OTHER AFTERLIVES EXIST ADDITION HEAVEN HELL SUCH PURGATORY RELIGION UNIVERSALISM BELIEVES THAT EVERYONE WILL HEAVEN EVENTUALLY MATTER WHAT THEY HAVE DONE BELIEVED EARTH SOME FORMS CHRISTIANITY INCLUDING JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES BELIEVE HELL TERMINATION SOUL EDIT BAHá'í FAITH BAHá'í FAITH REGARDS CONVENTIONAL DESCRIPTION HEAVEN HELL SPECIFIC PLACE SYMBOLIC INSTEAD BAHá'í WRITINGS DESCRIBE HEAVEN SPIRITUAL CONDITION WHERE CLOSENESS DEFINED HEAVEN CONVERSELY HELL SEEN STATE REMOTENESS FROM BAHá'U'LLáH FOUNDER BAHá'í FAITH STATED THAT NATURE LIFE SOUL AFTERLIFE BEYOND COMPREHENSION PHYSICAL PLANE STATED THAT SOUL WILL RETAIN CONSCIOUSNESS INDIVIDUALITY REMEMBER PHYSICAL LIFE SOUL WILL ABLE RECOGNIZE OTHER SOULS COMMUNICATE WITH THEM BAHá'íS ENTRY INTO NEXT LIFE POTENTIAL BRING GREAT BAHá'U'LLáH LIKENED DEATH PROCESS BIRTH EXPLAINS WORLD BEYOND DIFFERENT FROM THIS WORLD THIS WORLD DIFFERENT FROM THAT CHILD WHILE STILL WOMB MOTHER ANALOGY WOMB MANY WAYS SUMMARIZES BAHá'í VIEW EARTHLY EXISTENCE JUST WOMB CONSTITUTES IMPORTANT PLACE PERSON'S INITIAL PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT PHYSICAL WORLD PROVIDES DEVELOPMENT INDIVIDUAL SOUL ACCORDINGLY BAHá'íS VIEW LIFE PREPARATORY STAGE WHERE DEVELOP PERFECT THOSE QUALITIES WHICH WILL NEEDED NEXT LIFE SPIRITUAL PROGRESS FOLLOW PATH OUTLINED CURRENT MANIFESTATIONS WHICH BAHá'íS BELIEVE CURRENTLY BAHá'U'LLáH BAHá'U'LLáH WROTE KNOW THOU TRUTH THAT SOUL HATH WALKED WAYS WILL ASSUREDLY RETURN GATHERED GLORY BELOVED BAHá'í TEACHINGS STATE THAT THERE EXISTS HIERARCHY SOULS AFTERLIFE WHERE MERITS EACH SOUL DETERMINES THEIR PLACE HIERARCHY THAT SOULS LOWER HIERARCHY CANNOT COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND STATION THOSE ABOVE EACH SOUL CONTINUE PROGRESS AFTERLIFE SOUL'S DEVELOPMENT ENTIRELY DEPENDENT CONSCIOUS EFFORTS NATURE WHICH AWARE ALSO AUGMENTED GRACE PRAYERS OTHERS GOOD DEEDS PERFORMED OTHERS EARTH NAME THAT PERSON EDIT CHRISTIANITY HISTORICALLY CHRISTIANITY TAUGHT HEAVEN GENERALIZED CONCEPT PLACE ETERNAL LIFE THAT SHARED PLANE ATTAINED ELECT RATHER THAN ABSTRACT EXPERIENCE RELATED INDIVIDUAL CONCEPTS IDEAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH BEEN DIVIDED OVER PEOPLE GAIN THIS ETERNAL LIFE FROM LATE CENTURY CHRISTENDOM DIVIDED BETWEEN ROMAN CATHOLIC VIEW ORTHODOX VIEW COPTIC VIEW JACOBITE VIEW ABYSSINIAN VIEW PROTESTANT VIEWS ROMAN CATHOLICS BELIEVE THAT ENTERING PURGATORY AFTER DEATH PHYSICAL RATHER THAN DEATH CLEANSES PERIOD SUFFERING UNTIL ONE'S NATURE PERFECTED WHICH MAKES ACCEPTABLE ENTER HEAVEN THIS VALID VENIAL ONLY MORTAL SINS FORGIVEN ONLY THROUGH RECONCILIATION REPENTANCE WHILE EARTH CITATION NEEDED SOME WITHIN ANGLICAN COMMUNION NOTABLY ANGLO-CATHOLICS ALSO HOLD THIS BELIEF DESPITE THEIR SEPARATE HISTORY HOWEVER EASTERN ORTHODOX ORIENTAL ORTHODOX CHURCHES ONLY FINAL ENTERS HEAVEN EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH HEAVEN UNDERSTOOD UNION THEOSIS COMMUNION WITH TRIUNE REUNION FATHER THROUGH LOVE THUS HEAVEN EXPERIENCED ORTHODOX BOTH REALITY INAUGURATED ANTICIPATED PRESENT HERE DIVINE-HUMAN ORGANISM CHRIST'S BODY CHURCH ALSO SOMETHING PERFECTED FUTURE CITATION NEEDED PROTESTANT CHRISTIAN SECTS ETERNAL LIFE DEPENDS UPON SINNER RECEIVING GOD'S GRACE UNEARNED UNDESERVED BLESSING STEMMING FROM GOD'S LOVE THROUGH FAITH JESUS' DEATH THEIR SINS RESURRECTION CHRIST ACCEPTING LORDSHIP AUTHORITY GUIDANCE OVER THEIR LIVES SOME PROTESTANT SECTS ALSO TEACH THAT PHYSICAL BAPTISM OBLIGATORY PROCESS TRANSFORMATION EXPERIENCE SPIRITUAL REBIRTH FURTHER REQUIRED ALSO PROTESTANTISM DIVIDED INTO GROUPS BELIEVE DOCTRINE ETERNAL SECURITY ONCE PERSON BECOMES CHRISTIAN REMAINS FOREVER ALSO REFERRED SLOGAN ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED THOSE BELIEVE THAT PERSON SINS CONTINUALLY WITHOUT REPENTANCE PENETANCE NEVER SAVED FIRST PLACE SOME SECTS BELIEVE THAT THOSE CONTINUALLY LOSE THERE SALVATION THOUGH GENERALLY BELIEVED THAT SHOWS THAT INDIVIDUAL FULLY COMMITTED FIRST PLACE ACCORDING CONTROVERSIAL WEBSITE RELIGIOUSTOLERANCE CONSERVATIVE MAINLINE PROTESTANT DENOMINATIONS TEND BASE THEIR BELIEF HEAVEN LITERAL INTERPRETATION CERTAIN PASSAGES BIBLE SYMBOLIC INTERPRETATIONS OTHERS THEY ARRIVE VERY DIFFERENT BELIEFS BECAUSE THEY SELECT DIFFERENT PASSAGES READ LITERALLY EDIT EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITING FROM EARLY SECOND CENTURY HAVE FRAGMENT LOST VOLUMES PAPIAS CHRISTIAN BISHOP EXPOUNDED THAT HEAVEN SEPARATED INTO THREE DISTINCT LAYERS REFERRED FIRST JUST HEAVEN SECOND PARADISE THIRD CITY PAPIAS TAUGHT THAT THERE THIS DISTINCTION BETWEEN HABITATION THOSE PRODUCE HUNDREDFOLD THAT THOSE PRODUCE SIXTY-FOLD THAT THOSE PRODUCE THIRTY-FOLD CENTURY IRENAEUS GREEK BISHOP WROTE THAT SAVED WOULD MERIT ABODE HEAVEN ITSELF AGAINST HERESIES WROTE THAT ONLY THOSE DEEMED WORTHY WOULD INHERIT HOME HEAVEN WHILE OTHERS WOULD ENJOY PARADISE REST LIVE RESTORED JERUSALEM CITATION NEEDED EDIT ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY EASTERN ORTHODOX ICON DEPICTING CHRIST ENTHRONED HEAVEN SURROUNDED RANKS ANGELS SAINTS BOTTOM PARADISE WITH BOSOM ABRAHAM LEFT GOOD THIEF RIGHT TEACHINGS EASTERN ORTHODOX ORIENTAL ORTHODOX COMMUNIONS REGARDING KINGDOM HEAVEN KINGDOM BASICALLY TAKEN FROM SCRIPTURE THUS MANY ELEMENTS THIS BELIEF HELD COMMON WITH OTHER SCRIPTURAL FAITHS DENOMINATIONS SOME SPECIFIC DESCRIPTIONS THIS KINGDOM GIVEN CANON SCRIPTURE INCLUDE— THIS LIST MEANS COMPREHENSIVE PEACEFUL CONDITIONS EARTH—IS ZECH MATT ETERNAL RULE MESSIAH–KING—PS ZECH MATT HEIR DAVID BODILY PERFECTION—NO HUNGER THIRST DEATH SICKNESS PURE LANGUAGE MICAH ZEPH MATT RUINED CITIES INHABITED PEOPLE FLOCKS SHEEP—IS AMOS EDIT EASTERN ORTHODOX COSMOLOGY EASTERN ORTHODOX COSMOLOGY PERCEIVES HEAVEN HAVING DIFFERENT LEVELS JOHN LOWEST WHICH PARADISE TIME CREATION PARADISE TOUCHED EARTH GARDEN EDEN AFTER FALL PARADISE SEPARATED FROM EARTH MANKIND FORBIDDEN ENTRY LEST PARTAKE TREE LIFE LIVE ETERNALLY STATE SINFULNESS GENESIS DEATH CROSS ORTHODOX BELIEVE JESUS OPENED DOOR PARADISE MANKIND AGAIN LUKE GOOD THIEF FIRST ENTER VARIOUS SAINTS HAVE VISIONS HEAVEN CORINTHIANS ORTHODOX CONCEPT LIFE HEAVEN DESCRIBED PRAYERS DEAD PLACE LIGHT PLACE GREEN PASTURE PLACE REPOSE WHENCE SICKNESS SORROW SIGHING FLED AWAY EDIT ROMAN CATHOLICISM ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH BASES BELIEF HEAVEN SOME MAIN BIBLICAL PASSAGES HEBREW CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES TESTAMENTS ALSO BOOKS APOCRYPHA COLLECTED CHURCH WISDOM HEAVEN REALM BLESSED TRINITY BLESSED VIRGIN MARY ALSO CALLED QUEEN HEAVEN ANGELS SAINTS ACCORDING DOGMA ASSUMPTION VIRGIN MARY VIRGIN MARY HAVING COMPLETED COURSE EARTHLY LIFE ASSUMED BODY SOUL INTO HEAVENLY GLORY WHICH IMPLIES THAT HEAVEN MUST HAVE SOME FACILITY SUPPORT HUMAN BODIES WELL SOULS THAT EXPERIENCE HEAVEN UNDERSTOOD SPIRITUAL SOUL EXPERIENCE WHILE STILL EARTH ESSENTIAL HEAVEN CALLED BEATIFIC VISION WHICH DERIVED FROM VISION GOD'S ESSENCE SOUL RESTS PERFECTLY DOES CANNOT DESIRE ANYTHING ELSE THAN AFTER LAST JUDGMENT WHEN SOUL REUNITED WITH BODY BODY PARTICIPATES HAPPINESS SOUL BECOMES INCORRUPTIBLE GLORIOUS PERFECT PHYSICAL DEFECTS BODY HAVE LABOURED UNDER ERASED ROMAN CATHOLIC TEACHING REGARDING HEAVEN FOUND CATECHISM CATHOLIC CHURCH THOSE GENERALLY UNDERSTOOD PHYSICAL DEATH OPPOSED BODY LEVEL IDENTITY GOD'S GRACE FRIENDSHIP PERFECTLY PURIFIED LIVE FOREVER DEFINED IMMORTALITY BODY OPPOSED ETERNAL ALIVENESS PSYCHOLOGICAL SENSE THIS PERFECT DIVINE LIFE WITH FATHER DEITY RATHER THAN CONCEPT PERFECT GOODNESS CALLED HEAVEN ULTIMATE FULFILMENT DEEPEST HUMAN LONGINGS STATE SUPREME DEFINITIVE HAPPINESS FULL ALIVENESS CATHOLIC CHURCH TEACHES THAT ONLY THOSE BAPTIZED WATER SYMBOL PURIFICATION INTERNAL CLEANSING BLOOD SYMBOL MARTYRDOM DESIRE EXPLICIT IMPLICIT DESIRE PURIFICATION ENTER HEAVEN THOSE HAVE DIED STATE GRACE ENTER HEAVEN UPON DYING EACH SOUL GOES WHAT CALLED PARTICULAR JUDGEMENT WHERE AFTERLIFE DECIDED HEAVEN AFTER PURGATORY STRAIGHT HEAVEN HELL THIS DIFFERENT FROM GENERAL JUDGEMENT ALSO KNOWN LAST JUDGEMENT WHICH WILL OCCUR WHEN CHRIST RETURNS JUDGE LIVING DEAD COMMON ROMAN CATHOLIC BELIEF THAT MICHAEL ARCHANGEL CARRIES SOUL HEAVEN BELIEF THAT SAINT PETER MEETS SOUL PEARLY GATES ARTISTIC APPLICATION BELIEF THAT CHRIST GAVE PETER BELIEVED CATHOLICS FIRST POPE KEYS HEAVEN HEAVEN PLACE WHERE ONLY PURE PERMITTED PERSON DIES STATE ENTER HEAVEN THOSE GOD'S GRACE FRIENDSHIP PERFECTLY PURIFIED LIVE EVER WITH CHRIST THEY LIKE EVER THEY FACE FACE CATECHISM CATHOLIC CHURCH THOSE GOD'S GRACE FRIENDSHIP IMPERFECTLY PURIFIED ALTHOUGH THEY ASSURED THEIR ETERNAL SALVATION UNDERGO PURIFICATION AFTER DEATH ACHIEVE HOLINESS NECESSARY ENTER CATECHISM CATHOLIC CHURCH WERE BAPTIZED VALIDLY THEN DIED WOULD DIRECTLY HEAVEN ROMAN CATHOLIC BELIEF SACRAMENT BAPTISM DISSOLVES ETERNAL TEMPORAL PUNISHMENT SINS NEVER COMMITTED MORTAL WERE ABSOLVED VENIAL SINS JUST BEFORE DEATH WOULD DIRECTLY HEAVEN MOST PEOPLE ENTER HEAVEN THROUGH PURGATORY PLACE PURIFICATION PURGATORY SOUL PAYS TEMPORAL PUNISHMENT DESERVED SINS COMMITTED LIFE THIS DOES ALWAYS HAPPEN THOUGH RECEIVES SACRAMENT PENANCE VALIDLY WELL GAINS PLENARY INDULGENCE DIES WOULD DIRECTLY HEAVEN THERE MANY WAYS INDULGENCE VARIOUS PAPAL DECREES PUBLICATIONS RECEIVE PLENARY INDULGENCE MUST RECEIVE SACRAMENT CONFESSION VALIDLY ONE'S PENANCE VALIDLY RECEIVE COMMUNION SOME SPECIFIED NUMBER LORD'S PRAYERS ANGELIC SALUTATIONS MINOR DOXOLOGIES INTENTIONS POPE THEN PERFORM SOME GAINING INDULGENCE COURSE MUST REMAIN FREE FROM MORTAL VENIAL WHILE DOING THESE THINGS EDIT PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY INTERMEDIATE STATE BETWEEN DEATH RESURRECTION UNDERSTOOD DIVERSE WAYS PROTESTANT CHRISTIAN THOUGHT ARTICLE SOUL SLEEP FOLLOWING GENERALLY CONCLUDED ABOUT ETERNAL LIFE WHICH JESUS PROMISED THOSE BELIEVE TERM HEAVEN WHICH DIFFERS FROM KINGDOM HEAVEN NOTE BELOW APPLIED BIBLICAL AUTHORS REALM WHICH CURRENTLY RESIDES ETERNAL LIFE CONTRAST OCCURS RENEWED UNSPOILT PERFECT CREATION WHICH TERMED HEAVEN SINCE WILL CHOOSE DWELL THERE PERMANENTLY WITH PEOPLE SEEN REVELATION THERE WILL LONGER SEPARATION BETWEEN BELIEVERS THEMSELVES WILL EXIST INCORRUPTIBLE RESURRECTED BODIES THERE WILL SICKNESS DEATH TEARS DEATH NATURAL PART LIFE ALLOWED HAPPEN AFTER ADAM DISOBEYED ORIGINAL THAT MANKIND WOULD LIVE FOREVER STATE THUS STATE SEPARATION FROM MANY EVANGELICALS UNDERSTAND THIS FUTURE LIFE DIVIDED INTO DISTINCT PERIODS FIRST MILLENNIAL REIGN CHRIST THOUSAND YEARS THIS EARTH REFERRED REVELATION SECONDLY HEAVENS EARTH REFERRED REVELATION THIS MILLENNIALISM CHILIASM REVIVAL STRONG TRADITION EARLY CHURCH THAT DISMISSED AUGUSTINE HIPPO ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AFTER ONLY WILL BELIEVERS SPEND ETERNITY WITH THEY WILL ALSO SPEND WITH EACH OTHER JOHN'S VISION RECORDED REVELATION DESCRIBES JERUSALEM WHICH COMES FROM HEAVEN EARTH WHICH SEEN SYMBOLIC REFERENCE PEOPLE LIVING COMMUNITY WITH ANOTHER 'HEAVEN' WILL PLACE WHERE LIFE WILL LIVED FULL THAT DESIGNER PLANNED EACH BELIEVER 'LOVING LORD THEIR WITH THEIR HEART WITH THEIR SOUL WITH THEIR MIND' 'LOVING THEIR NEIGHBOUR THEMSELVES' ADAPTED FROM MATTHEW PLACE GREAT WITHOUT NEGATIVE ASPECTS EARTHLY LIFE GREEK BASILEIA OURANON USUALLY TRANSLATED KINGDOM HEAVEN INDEED MORE LITERALLY RULE SKIES HEAVENS WITH SKIES HEAVENS BEING CODEWORD REFLECTING RESPECT SHOWN GOD'S NAME FIRST CENTURY JUDAISM WITHIN CHRISTIANITY THERE SEVERAL NOTABLE BELIEF STRUCTURES MEANS WHICH ENTER HEAVEN ARMINIANISM CALVINISM EDIT SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST MAIN ARTICLES HEAVENLY SANCTUARY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST ESCHATOLOGY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST UNDERSTANDING HEAVEN BASED BIBLICAL WRITINGS WHICH FOLLOWING THAT HEAVEN MATERIAL PLACE WHERE RESIDES THAT EARTH ANIMATE INANIMATE THINGS THEREIN WITHIN CELESTIAL SPACE PRODUCTS GOD'S CREATIVE WORK THAT SENT JESUS CHRIST EARTH LIVE HUMAN BEING PERFECTLY EXEMPLIFIED RIGHTEOUSNESS LOVE MIRACLES MANIFESTED GOD'S POWER ATTESTED GOD'S PROMISED MESSIAH SUFFERED DIED VOLUNTARILY CROSS SINS PLACE RAISED FROM DEAD ASCENDED MINISTER HEAVENLY SANCTUARY BEHALF THAT CHRIST PROMISES RETURN SAVIOUR WHICH TIME WILL RESURRECT RIGHTEOUS DEAD GATHER THEM ALONG WITH RIGHTEOUS LIVING HEAVEN UNRIGHTEOUS WILL CHRIST'S SECOND COMING THAT AFTER CHRIST'S SECOND COMING THERE WILL EXIST PERIOD TIME KNOWN MILLENNIUM DURING WHICH CHRIST RIGHTEOUS SAINTS WILL REIGN UNRIGHTEOUS WILL JUDGED CLOSE MILLENNIUM CHRIST ANGELS RETURN EARTH RESURRECT DEAD THAT REMAIN ISSUE JUDGEMENTS FOREVER UNIVERSE SINNERS EARTH WHICH RIGHTEOUSNESS DWELLS WILL PROVIDE ETERNAL HOME REDEEMED PERFECT ENVIRONMENT EVERLASTING LIFE LOVE LEARNING PRESENCE HERE HIMSELF WILL DWELL WITH PEOPLE SUFFERING DEATH WILL HAVE PASSED AWAY GREAT CONTROVERSY WILL ENDED WILL MORE THINGS ANIMATE INANIMATE WILL DECLARE THAT LOVE SHALL REIGN FOREVER THIS POINT THAT HEAVEN ESTABLISHED EARTH EDIT JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES HOLD BELIEF THAT HEAVEN DWELLING PLACE JEHOVAH SPIRIT CREATURES SEAT POWER SOVEREIGN UNIVERSE PLACE WHERE CHOSEN FAITHFUL FOLLOWERS CHRIST WILL RESIDE RULING OVER RESURRECTED EARTH ALONGSIDE ANOINTED KING JEHOVAH'S JESUS CHRIST REVELATION LOOK LAMB STANDING UPON MOUNT ZION WITH HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND HAVING NAME NAME FATHER WRITTEN THEIR FOREHEADS THEY SINGING SONG BEFORE THRONE BEFORE FOUR LIVING CREATURES ELDERS ABLE MASTER THAT SONG HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND HAVE BEEN BOUGHT FROM EARTH GOOD PEOPLE HEAVEN ONES REMAIN EARTH LOOK FORWARD HAPPY LIFE FUTURE ACTS “DAVID WHOM BIBLE REFERS BEING AGREEABLE JEHOVAH GOD’S HEART’ ASCEND HEAVENS MATT “TRULY PEOPLE AMONG THOSE BORN WOMEN THERE BEEN RAISED GREATER THAN JOHN BAPTIST PERSON THAT LESSER KINGDOM HEAVENS GREATER THAN JOHN HEAVEN WHEN DIED “EVILDOERS THEMSELVES WILL THOSE HOPING JEHOVAH ONES THAT WILL POSSESS EARTH MEEK ONES THEMSELVES WILL POSSESS EARTH THEY WILL INDEED FIND THEIR EXQUISITE DELIGHT ABUNDANCE PEACE RIGHTEOUS THEMSELVES WILL POSSESS EARTH THEY WILL RESIDE FOREVER UPON HEAVEN EARTH HEARD LOUD VOICE FROM THRONE ‘LOOK TENT WITH MANKIND WILL RESIDE WITH THEM THEY WILL PEOPLES HIMSELF WILL WITH THEM WILL WIPE EVERY TEAR FROM THEIR EYES DEATH WILL MORE NEITHER WILL MOURNING OUTCRY PAIN ANYMORE FORMER THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY “THEY WILL LIFT SWORD NATION AGAINST NATION NEITHER WILL THEY LEARN ANYMORE THEY WILL ACTUALLY EACH UNDER VINE UNDER TREE THERE WILL MAKING THEM TREMBLE VERY MOUTH JEHOVAH ARMIES SPOKEN MATT “HAPPY MILD-TEMPERED ONES SINCE THEY WILL INHERIT EARTH MATT “OUR FATHER HEAVENS YOUR NAME SANCTIFIED YOUR KINGDOM COME YOUR WILL TAKE PLACE HEAVEN ALSO UPON EARTH EDIT CHURCH JESUS CHRIST LATTER-DAY SAINTS VIEW HEAVEN ACCORDING LATTER-DAY SAINT MOVEMENT BASED SECTION DOCTRINE COVENANTS WELL CORINTHIANS CHAPTER KING JAMES VERSION BIBLE AFTERLIFE DIVIDED FIRST INTO LEVELS UNTIL LAST JUDGEMENT AFTERWARDS DIVIDED INTO FOUR LEVELS UPPER THREE WHICH REFERRED DEGREES GLORY THAT ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES COMPARED HEAVENLY BODIES BEFORE LAST JUDGMENT SPIRITS SEPARATED FROM THEIR BODIES DEATH EITHER PARADISE SPIRIT PRISON BASED THEIR MERITS EARNED LIFE PARADISE PLACE REST WHILE INHABITANTS CONTINUE LEARNING PREPARATION LAST JUDGEMENT SPIRIT PRISON PLACE ANGUISH SUFFERING WICKED UNREPENTANT HOWEVER MISSIONARY EFFORTS DONE SPIRITS FROM PARADISE ENABLE THOSE SPIRIT PRISON REPENT ACCEPT GOSPEL ATONEMENT RECEIVE BAPTISM THROUGH PRACTICE BAPTISM DEAD AFTER RESURRECTION LAST JUDGEMENT PEOPLE SENT FOUR LEVELS CELESTIAL KINGDOM HIGHEST LEVEL WITH POWER GLORY COMPARABLE HERE FAITHFUL VALIANT DISCIPLES CHRIST ACCEPTED FULLNESS GOSPEL KEPT THEIR COVENANTS WITH THROUGH FOLLOWING PROPHETS THEIR DISPENSATION REUNITED WITH THEIR FAMILIES WITH FATHER JESUS CHRIST HOLY SPIRIT ETERNITY THOSE WOULD HAVE ACCEPTED GOSPEL WITH THEIR HEARTS THEY BEEN GIVEN OPPORTUNITY LIFE JUDGED CHRIST FATHER ALSO SAVED CELESTIAL KINGDOM LATTER-DAY SAINT MOVEMENTS BELIEVE CONCEPT ORIGINAL BELIEVE CHILDREN INNOCENT THROUGH ATONEMENT THEREFORE CHILDREN BEFORE ACCOUNTABILITY INHERIT THIS GLORY WOMEN HAVE ENTERED INTO CELESTIAL MARRIAGE ELIGIBLE UNDER TUTELAGE FATHER EVENTUALLY BECOME GODS GODDESSES JOINT-HEIRS WITH JESUS CHRIST TERRESTRIAL KINGDOM'S POWER GLORY COMPARABLE THAT MOON RESERVED THOSE UNDERSTOOD REJECTED FULL GOSPEL LIFE LIVED GOOD LIVES THOSE ACCEPT GOSPEL FAILED KEEP THEIR COVENANTS THROUGH CONTINUING PROCESS FAITH REPENTANCE SERVICE OTHERS THOSE DIED WITHOUT ACCEPTED FULL GOSPEL REPENTED AFTER DEATH MISSIONARY EFFORTS UNDERTAKEN SPIRIT PRISON FATHER DOES COME INTO TERRESTRIAL KINGDOM JESUS CHRIST VISITS THEM HOLY SPIRIT GIVEN THEM TELESTIAL KINGDOM COMPARABLE GLORY STARS THOSE PLACED TELESTIAL KINGDOM SUFFERED PAINS HELL AFTER DEATH BECAUSE THEY WERE LIARS MURDERERS ADULTERERS WHOREMONGERS THEY EVENTUALLY RESCUED FROM HELL BEING REDEEMED THROUGH POWER ATONEMENT MILLENNIUM DESPITE LESSER CONDITION ETERNITY TELESTIAL KINGDOM DESCRIBED BEING MORE COMFORTABLE THAN EARTH CURRENT STATE SUFFERING RESULT FULL KNOWLEDGE SINS CHOICES WHICH HAVE PERMANENTLY SEPARATED PERSON FROM UTTER THAT COMES FROM BEING PRESENCE JESUS CHRIST THOUGH THEY HAVE HOLY SPIRIT WITH THEM PERDITION OUTER DARKNESS LOWEST LEVEL GLORY WHATSOEVER RESERVED SATAN ANGELS THOSE HAVE COMMITTED UNPARDONABLE THIS LOWEST STATE POSSIBLE ETERNITIES THAT VERY PEOPLE BORN THIS WORLD ATTAIN SINCE UNPARDONABLE REQUIRES THAT PERSON KNOW WITH PERFECT KNOWLEDGE THAT GOSPEL TRUE THEN REJECT FIGHT DEFIANTLY AGAINST ONLY KNOWN PERDITION CAIN GENERALLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE PROBABLY MORE SCATTERED THROUGH AGES EDIT HINDUISM ACCORDING HINDU COSMOLOGY ABOVE EARTHLY PLANE HEAVENLY PLANES BHUVA LOKA SWARGA LOKA HEAVENLY PARADISE PLEASURE WHERE MILLION HINDU GODS DEVA RESIDE ALONG WITH KING GODS INDRA MAHAR LOKA JANA LOKA TAPA LOKA SATYA LOKA BELOW EARTHLY PLANE SEVEN NETHER PLANES ATALA VITALA SUTALA TALATALA MAHATALA RASATALA PATAAL BELOW THESE HELLISH PLANES ACCORDING BHAGAVATA PURANA BELOW WHICH GARBHODAKA OCEAN WITH WATERS DEVASTATION DEPENDING GOOD ACTIVITIES KARMA EARTHLY PLANE SOUL EITHER ASCENDS ENJOY HEAVENLY DELIGHTS GOES DOWN FIERY HELLISH PLANES DEPENDING SINS PERFORMED WHICH JUDGED DEATH JUSTICE YAMA PRESIDES ALONG HELLS AFTER RESULTS GOOD DEEDS KARMA DELIVERED SOULS RETURN EARTHLY PLANE AGAIN HUMAN ANIMAL DEPENDING DESIRES KARMA THUS CYCLE BIRTH DEATH ETERNAL LIBERATION FREEDOM FROM CYCLE BIRTH DEATH CALLED MOKSHA WHICH OBTAINED ONLY HUMAN LIFE TURNING ATTENTION INWARDS UNITING SOUL WITH SUPREME BEING PARABRAHMAN BHAGAVAN ISHVAR KRISHNA THROUGH YOGA KARMA YOGA JNANA YOGA BHAKTI YOGA LIBERATION MOKSHA FIVE TYPES DESCRIBED PURANAS SAYUJYA MERGING INTO ONENESS WITH IMPERSONAL ASPECT LORD HENCE FREEDOM FROM MATERIAL ANXIETY SALOKYA ATTAINING RESIDENCE ETERNAL ABODE LORD CALLED VAIKUNTHA BEYOND MATERIAL UNIVERSAL CREATION BEYOND MATERIAL HEAVENS PLACE WHERE ONLY SURRENDERED DEVOTEES LORD SARISTI ATTAINING SAME OPULENCES LORD ABODE SARUPYA ATTAINING SAME BEAUTIFUL FORM LORD ABODE SAMIPYA ATTAINING CLOSE ASSOCIATION LORD ABODE THIS ABODE LORD BRIEFLY DESCRIBED BHAGAVAD GITA THAT SUPREME ABODE MINE ILLUMINED MOON FIRE ELECTRICITY THOSE REACH NEVER RETURN THIS MATERIAL WORLD FURTHER DESCRIPTIONS VAIKUNTHA PURANAS WHERE LORD'S DEVOTEES RESIDE ETERNALLY LOVING RELATIONSHIP WITH LORD FURTHERMORE VAIKUNTHA RESIDENCY FOLLOWING CATEGORIES SHANTA RASA NEUTRAL RELATIONSHIP GREAT REVERATION CONSTANT THINKING LORD DASYA RASA SERVING LORD PERSONALLY PLEASE LORD MASTER SOUL SERVANT SAKHYA RASA SERVING LORD INTIMATE FRIEND FORMAL INFORMAL MANY OTHER TYPES VATSALYA RASA SERVING LORD FROM SUPERIOR POSITION CARETAKER LIKE MOTHERLY FATHERLY RELATIONS MADHURYA SRINGARA RASA SERVING LORD INTIMATE CONJUGAL LOVER INCLUDING PREVIOUS RASAS MOST SWEET WITH MANY FURTHER CATEGORIES LORD LOVINGLY RELATES EVERY SOUL MULTITUDE MODES VARIETIES RELATIONSHIPS DESIRED SOUL LORD FROM THERE SOMETIMES DESCENDS INTO MATERIAL UNIVERSE ALONG WITH ASSOCIATES REDEEM SUFFERING SOULS PERFORM PASTIMES COMES EITHER PERSONALLY SVAYAM BHAGAVAN PART INCARNATIONS KALA AMSHA SENDS MESSENGERS PROPHETS THERE MANY INCARNATIONS LORD MENTIONED SCRIPTURES WHICH FAMOUS MOST POPULAR ONES RAMA AVATAR KRISHNA AVATAR EDIT BUDDHISM THIS SECTION DOES CITE REFERENCES SOURCES PLEASE HELP IMPROVE THIS SECTION ADDING CITATIONS RELIABLE SOURCES UNVERIFIABLE MATERIAL CHALLENGED REMOVED DECEMBER ACCORDING BUDDHIST COSMOLOGY UNIVERSE UNDERGOING CYCLES BEINGS SPREAD OVER NUMBER EXISTENTIAL PLANES WHICH THIS HUMAN WORLD ONLY THOUGH IMPORTANT REALM LIFE BUDDHISM GODS IMMORTAL THOUGH THEY LIVE MUCH LONGER THAN EARTHLY BEINGS THEY ALSO SUBJECT DECAY CHANGE PROCESS BECOMING INTENSITY MANNER WHICH THESE PROCESSES TAKE PLACE HOWEVER DIFFERENT INVOLVE LONGER PERIODS TIME LIKE OTHER BEINGS THEY WITH BEGINNING HOWEVER HEAVENLY BEINGS REGARDED INFERIOR STATUS ARHATS HAVE ATTAINED NIRVANA GODS WERE ALSO FROM LOWER WORLDS ORIGINALLY SLOWLY GRADUALLY GRADUATED THEMSELVES INTO HIGHER WORLDS VIRTUE THEIR PAST DEEDS CULTIVATION VIRTUOUS QUALITIES SINCE THERE MANY HEAVENS HIGHER WORLDS BRAHMA THESE GODS EVOLVE PROGRESSIVELY FROM HEAVEN ANOTHER THROUGH THEIR MERIT DESCEND INTO LOWER WORLDS SOME MISFORTUNE RIGHT INTENTION NOTABLE BUDDHIST PARADISE PURE LAND PURE LAND BUDDHISM GODS BUDDHISM THEREFORE IMMORTAL NEITHER THEIR POSITION HEAVENS PERMANENT THEY HOWEVER LIVE LONGER DURATIONS TIME BUDDHIST SUTRAS STATES THAT HUNDRED YEARS EXISTENCE EQUAL NIGHT WORLD THIRTY THREE GODS THIRTY SUCH DAYS THEIR MONTH TWELVE SUCH MONTHS BECOME THEIR YEAR WHILE THEY LIVE THOUSAND SUCH YEARS EDIT ISLAM MAIN ARTICLE JANNAH QUR'AN CONTAINS MANY REFERENCES AFTERLIFE EDEN THOSE GOOD DEEDS HEAVEN ITSELF COMMONLY DESCRIBED QU'RAN VERSE SURAH AL-RA’D PARABLE GARDEN WHICH RIGHTEOUS PROMISED BENEATH FLOW RIVERS PERPETUAL FRUITS THEREOF SHADE THEREIN SUCH RIGHTEOUS UNBELIEVERS FIRE SINCE ISLAM REJECTS CONCEPT ORIGINAL MUSLIMS BELIEVE THAT HUMAN BEINGS BORN PURE ISLAM THEREFORE CHILD DIES AUTOMATICALLY GOES HEAVEN REGARDLESS RELIGION PARENTS HIGHEST LEVEL HEAVEN FIRDAWS PARDIS WHICH WHERE PROPHETS MARTYRS MOST TRUTHFUL PIOUS PEOPLE WILL DWELL ALTHOUGH SHARING SOME SIMILARITIES CONCEPT HEAVEN ISLAM DIFFERENT MANY RESPECTS THAT FOUND JUDAISM CHRISTIANITY CHIEFLY HEAVEN JANNAH DESCRIBED PHYSICAL TERMS USING JEWELLERY FOOD ISLAMIC TEXTS DESCRIBES LIFE IMMORTAL INHABITANTS THAT HAPPY WITHOUT HURT SORROW FEAR SHAME WHERE EVERY WISH FULFILLED TRADITIONS RELATE THAT INHABITANTS WILL SAME YEARS SAME WHEN JESUS ASCENDED SAME STATURE THEIR LIFE BLISS INCLUDING WEARING COSTLY ROBES BRACELETS PERFUMES PARTAKING EXQUISITE BANQUETS SERVED PRICELESS VESSELS IMMORTAL YOUTHS RECLINING COUCHES INLAID WITH GOLD PRECIOUS STONES OTHER FOODS MENTIONED INCLUDE MEATS SCENTED WINE CLEAR DRINKS BRINGING NEITHER DRUNKENNESS ROUSING QUARRELING INHABITANTS WILL REJOICE COMPANY THEIR PARENTS WIVES CHILDREN PROVIDED THEY WERE ADMITTED PARADISE CONVERSING RECALLING PAST TEXTS ALSO RELATE PURE CONSORTS HOURIS CREATED PERFECTION WITH WHOM CARNAL JOYS SHARED HUNDRED TIMES GREATER THAN EARTHLY PLEASURE EDIT JUDAISM JUDAISM OFFERS CLEAR TEACHING ABOUT DESTINY WHICH LIES WAIT INDIVIDUAL AFTER DEATH ATTITUDE LIFE AFTER DEATH BEEN EXPRESSED FOLLOWS FUTURE INSCRUTABLE ACCEPTED SOURCES KNOWLEDGE WHETHER EXPERIENCE REASON REVELATION OFFER CLEAR GUIDANCE ABOUT WHAT COME ONLY CERTAINTY THAT EACH MUST BEYOND THAT ONLY GUESS WHILE CONCEPT HEAVEN MALKUTH HASHAMAIM —THE KINGDOM HEAVEN WELL-DEFINED WITHIN CHRISTIAN ISLAMIC RELIGIONS JEWISH CONCEPT AFTERLIFE SOMETIMES KNOWN OLAM HABA WORLD COME SEEMS HAVE BEEN DISPUTED BETWEEN VARIOUS EARLY SECTS SUCH SADDUCEES THUS NEVER FORTH SYSTEMATIC OFFICIAL FASHION DONE CHRISTIANITY ISLAM CITATION NEEDED TORAH LITTLE SUBJECT SURVIVAL AFTER DEATH TIME RABBIS IDEAS MADE INROADS AMONG JEWS WHICH PROBABLY DERIVED FROM GREEK THOUGHT THAT IMMORTAL SOUL WHICH RETURNS CREATOR AFTER DEATH OTHER WHICH THOUGHT PERSIAN ORIGIN THAT RESURRECTION JEWISH WRITINGS REFER EARTH ABODE MANKIND FOLLOWING RESURRECTION DEAD ORIGINALLY IDEAS IMMORTALITY RESURRECTION WERE DIFFERENT RABBINIC THOUGHT THEY COMBINED SOUL DEPARTS FROM BODY DEATH RETURNED RESURRECTION THIS IDEA LINKED ANOTHER RABBINIC TEACHING WHICH FOUND BIBLE THAT MEN'S GOOD ACTIONS REWARDED PUNISHED THIS LIFE AFTER DEATH WHETHER IMMEDIATELY SUBSEQUENT RESURRECTION SOME JEWS BELIEVE REINCARNATION WHICH CASE SOUL DEAD PASSES INTO BODY NEWBORN PERSON WITH MEMORY PREVIOUS EXISTENCE JUDAISM DOES HOWEVER HAVE BELIEF HEAVEN FUTURE ABODE GOOD SOULS PLACE WHERE RESIDES EDIT KABBALAH JEWISH MYSTICISM JEWISH MYSTICISM RECOGNIZES SEVEN HEAVENS ORDER FROM LOWEST HIGHEST SEVEN HEAVENS LISTED ALONGSIDE ANGELS GOVERN THEM SHAMAYIM FIRST HEAVEN GOVERNED ARCHANGEL GABRIEL CLOSEST HEAVENLY REALMS EARTH ALSO CONSIDERED ABODE ADAM RAQUIA SECOND HEAVEN DUALLY CONTROLLED ZACHARIEL RAPHAEL THIS HEAVEN THAT MOSES DURING VISIT PARADISE ENCOUNTERED ANGEL NURIEL STOOD PARASANGS HIGH WITH RETINUE MYRIADS ANGELS FASHIONED WATER FIRE ALSO RAQUIA CONSIDERED REALM WHERE FALLEN ANGELS IMPRISONED PLANETS FASTENED SHEHAQIM THIRD HEAVEN UNDER LEADERSHIP ANAHEL SERVES HOME GARDEN EDEN TREE LIFE ALSO REALM WHERE MANNA HOLY FOOD ANGELS PRODUCED SECOND BOOK ENOCH MEANWHILE STATES THAT BOTH PARADISE HELL ACCOMMODATED SHEHAQIM WITH HELL BEING LOCATED SIMPLY NORTHERN SIDE MACHONON FOURTH HEAVEN RULED ARCHANGEL MICHAEL ACCORDING TALMUD HAGIGA CONTAINS HEAVENLY JERUSALEM TEMPLE ALTAR MACHON FIFTH HEAVEN UNDER ADMINISTRATION SAMAEL ANGEL REFERRED EVIL SOME OTHERS MERELY DARK SERVANT ZEBUL SIXTH HEAVEN FALLS UNDER JURISDICTION ZACHIEL ARABOTH SEVENTH HEAVEN UNDER LEADERSHIP CASSIEL HOLIEST SEVEN HEAVENS PROVIDED FACT THAT HOUSES THRONE GLORY ATTENDED SEVEN ARCHANGELS SERVES REALM WHICH DWELLS UNDERNEATH THRONE ITSELF LIES ABODE UNBORN HUMAN SOULS ALSO CONSIDERED HOME SERAPHIM CHERUBIM HAYYOTH EDIT POLYNESIA CREATION STORIES POLYNESIAN MYTHOLOGY FOUND VARIOUS CONCEPTS HEAVENS UNDERWORLD THESE DIFFER FROM ISLAND ANOTHER WHAT THEY SHARE VIEW UNIVERSE COCONUT THAT DIVIDED BETWEEN WORLD HUMANS EARTH UPPER WORLD HEAVENLY GODS UNDERWORLD EACH THESE SUBDIVIDED MANNER REMINISCENT DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY NUMBER DIVISIONS THEIR NAMES DIFFERS FROM POLYNESIAN CULTURE ANOTHER EDIT AMONG HEAVENS DIVIDED INTO NUMBER REALMS DIFFERENT TRIBES NUMBER HEAVEN DIFFERENTLY WITH MANY FOURTEEN LEVELS MORE COMMON VERSIONS DIVIDES HEAVEN THUS KIKO-RANGI PRESIDED OVER TOUMAU WAKA-MARU HEAVEN SUNSHINE RAIN NGA-ROTO HEAVEN LAKES WHERE MARU RULES HAU-ORA WHERE SPIRITS NEW-BORN CHILDREN ORIGINATE NGA-TAUIRA HOME SERVANT GODS NGA-ATUA WHICH RULED OVER HERO TAWHAKI AUTOIA WHERE HUMAN SOULS CREATED AUKUMEA WHERE SPIRITS LIVE WAIRUA WHERE SPIRIT GODS LIVE WHILE WAITING THOSE NAHERANGI TUWAREA WHERE GREAT GODS LIVE PRESIDED OVER REHUA BELIEVE THESE HEAVENS SUPPORTED PILLARS OTHER POLYNESIAN PEOPLES THEM BEING SUPPORTED GODS HAWAI'I TAHITAN LEGEND HEAVEN SUPPORTED OCTOPUS EDIT TUAMOTUS ILLUSTRATION TUOMATUAN CHIEF PORTRAYING NINE HEAVENS POLYNESIAN CONCEPTION UNIVERSE DIVISION NICELY ILLUSTRATED FAMOUS DRAWING MADE TUOMOTUAN CHIEF HERE NINE HEAVENS FURTHER DIVIDED INTO LEFT RIGHT EACH STAGE ASSOCIATED WITH STAGE EVOLUTION EARTH THAT PORTRAYED BELOW LOWEST DIVISION REPRESENTS PERIOD WHEN HEAVENS HUNG OVER EARTH WHICH INHABITED ANIMALS THAT WERE KNOWN ISLANDERS THIRD DIVISION SHOWN FIRST MURDER FIRST BURIALS FIRST CANOES BUILT RATA FOURTH DIVISION FIRST COCONUT TREE OTHER SIGNIFICANT PLANTS BORN EDIT ATHEIST CRITICISM BELIEF HEAVEN ATHEISTS REJECT EXISTENCE HEAVEN SOME ATHEISTS HAVE VIEWED NOTION HEAVEN OPIATE MASSES —TOOL EMPLOYED HUMANS COPE WITH THEIR LIVES' MISERY—OR OPIATE MASSES TOOL EMPLOYED AUTHORITIES BRIBE THEIR SUBJECTS INTO CERTAIN LIFE PROMISING REWARD AFTER DEATH ANARCHIST EMMA GOLDMAN EXPRESSED THIS VIEW WHEN WROTE CONSCIOUSLY UNCONSCIOUSLY MOST THEISTS GODS DEVILS HEAVEN HELL REWARD PUNISHMENT WHIP LASH PEOPLE INTO OBEDIENCE MEEKNESS CONTENTMENT MANY PEOPLE CONSIDER GEORGE ORWELL'S SUGARCANDY MOUNTAIN NOVEL ANIMAL FARM LITERARY EXPRESSION THIS VIEW BOOK ANIMALS WERE TOLD THAT AFTER THEIR MISERABLE LIVES WERE OVER THEY WOULD PLACE WHICH SUNDAY SEVEN DAYS WEEK CLOVER SEASON YEAR ROUND LUMP SUGAR LINSEED CAKE GREW HEDGES FANTASY AUTHOR PHILLIP PULLMAN ECHOES THIS IDEA FANTASY SERIES DARK MATERIALS WHICH CHARACTERS FINALLY COME CONCLUSION THAT PEOPLE SHOULD MAKE LIFE BETTER EARTH RATHER THAN WAIT HEAVEN THIS IDEA KNOWN REPUBLIC HEAVEN SOME ATHEISTS HAVE ARGUED THAT BELIEF REWARD AFTER DEATH POOR MOTIVATION MORAL BEHAVIOR WHILE ALIVE ARGUING THAT RATHER MORE NOBLE HELP PEOPLE PURELY CONCERN THEIR SUFFERING THAN HELP THEM BECAUSE THINK CREATOR UNIVERSE WANTS WILL REWARD DOING WILL PUNISH DOING PROBLEM WITH THIS LINKAGE BETWEEN RELIGION MORALITY THAT GIVES PEOPLE REASONS HELP OTHER HUMAN BEINGS WHEN GOOD REASONS AVAILABLE OTHERS HAVE FURTHER ARGUED THAT IRRATIONAL BELIEF HEAVENLY REWARDS ACTUALLY MOTIVATE BELIEVERS HORRIBLE THINGS WHILE EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS SUMMED THIS VIEW STATING PROMISE YOUNG THAT DEATH WILL WILLINGLY CAUSE DISASTER TELEVISION PROGRAMME ROOT EVIL DAWKINS STATES THERE WOULD MURDERERS AROUND WORLD WANT KILL THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY MOTIVATED WHAT THEY THINK HIGHEST IDEAL SUICIDE BOMBER BELIEVES THAT KILLING WILL FAST TRACKED SPECIAL MARTYRS’ HEAVEN EDIT ARGUMENT REBUTTAL ATHEISM ROBERT SHORT BOOK SOMETHING BELIEVE KURT VONNEGUT EXORCIST JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR ARGUES THAT TYPICAL PORTRAYAL IDEAS HEAVEN HELL- MAINSTREAM CHURCHES INCORRECT LINE WITH BIBLICAL TEACHINGS SHORT ALSO ARGUES THAT ATHEISTS TEND FOCUS UPON CONCEPT EXISTENCE BEYOND LIFE BECAUSE DIES WITH NOTHING BEYOND ONE'S LIFE THEN WHETHER SOMEONE GOOD THEY SAME RESULT ONLY LOGICAL COURSE ACTION 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LIKE LOBBY BEFORE WORLD-TO-COME PREPARE YOURSELF LOBBY THAT ENTER BANQUET HALL LANGE IBID LANGE IBID LANGE IBID LEGENDS JEWS LEGENDS JEWS ANIMAL FARM CHARACTER PROFILES CHARLES' GEORGE ORWELL LINKS GOLDMAN EMMA PHILOSOPHY ATHEISM MOTHER EARTH FEBRUARY OPINIONS ESSAYS ORWELL'S POLITICAL MESSAGES RHODRI WILLIAMS BACKGROUND INFORMATION GEORGE ORWELL'S ANIMAL FARM CHARLES' GEORGE ORWELL LINKS ATHEIST PHILOSOPHY QUOTE ALBERT EINSTEIN QUOTE HARRIS BEYOND BELIEF CONFERENCE WATCH HERE DAWKINS RICHARD RELIGION'S MISGUIDED MISSILES GUARDIAN SEPTEMBER REPLY RICHARD DAWKINS STATEMENT ROOT EVIL SITE PHILIPPINE ATHEISTS THIS VIEW ECHOED HARRIS BOOK FAITH EDIT REFERENCES EDIT PRINT CRAIG ROBERT DICTIONARY POLYNESIAN MYTHOLOGY GREENWOOD PRESS YORK ISBN PAGE BUNYAN JOHN STRAIT GATE GREAT DIFFICULTY GOING HEAVEN LISKEARD CORNWALL DIGGORY PRESS ISBN BUNYAN JOHN HEAVEN JESUS CHRIST LISKEARD CORNWALL DIGGORY PRESS ISBN GINZBERG LOUIS HENRIETTA SZOLD TRANS LEGENDS JEWS PHILADELPHIA JEWISH PUBLICATION 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