Christian Belief on Life after Death from a Philosophical Perspective

Life after Death

In light of the Church of anthropology is understandable and natural Christian belief in the immortality of man, "life after death." Many religious and philosophical systems proclaim "the immortality of the soul", but the faith of the Church is radically different from them because he understands as a kind of immortality is not inconceivable in a kind of "survival" after the death of the body, but as the overcoming of death through a personal relationship between man and God.

According to Church teachings, death is separation from God, denial of communication with him, failure to realize its existence as a union of love. Can a person attain eternal life on their own, relying only on the existential possibilities, due to the created nature, and therefore do not contain any of its origin or its purpose in them? With the depletion of human resources psychosomatic comes to an end and the ability of our created nature to maintain its own existence (Beveridge, pp. 413-490).

When the Church affirms belief in eternal life, we are not talking about some kind of a future "state", in which one or another part of man - his "soul" or "spirit" - able to survive after the death of the body. Faith Church is the conviction that our existence is not due to the natural nature of her psychosomatic properties, but the relationship with God, His love to every one of us. The belief in eternal life is belief in the immutability of God's love, our being constitutive, regardless of physical and mental activity of the organism.

Thus, the belief in immortality is not ideologies, based on certain arguments, but an act of trust and an expression of our hopes and lust for life, reduces only the divine love. It is He who gives us here and now grace of life, in spite of the stubborn refusal of human nature to realize itself as a real being, that is, self-denial, and united in love, - that He promises each of us fullness of life, Imminence face to face and reunion with him after a last gasp of our rebellious nature to stop resisting God's love (Westminster, p. 228).

How the new relationship is with God, and by what forces - a man not given to know. But we have bestowed faith; trust in divine revelation, which asserts invariably personal relationship between God and man.

Christians are not the first to say that there is life after death. All cultures, in which the person was buried with everything necessary to Vivre, eat, hunt, and defend themselves in the "beyond", perceived as the man is not to die. Giving propitiatory offerings to the deceased for the authorities (or gods) of the place of the dead, they also thought they had a justice, a reward, other possible destinations in the afterlife. For the Greeks, "Charon's boat", which is across the river that gave access to the place of the dead, symbolically marking ...