The Mystery of Death and Beyond
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (744 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1587315459 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Most people feel that there is something wrong about death. Therefore we must prepare ourselves to die in the grace of God, which is our ticket to heaven. We know from divine revelation and from the infallible teaching of the Church that the soul after death goes immediately to heaven (perhaps first for a time to purgatory to be totally cleansed and sanctified), or immediately to hell, a state or place of eternal misery. It is also unchangeable, that is, souls in heaven are there forever and they cannot lose it; souls in hell are there forever and they can never be freed from it. Life is experienced as something very good and we want to preserve it. It has a beginning but not end. Death is the separation of that soul from the body; the body decays and returns to the dust from which it was taken, but the soul continues to live and is in the hands of God. But what happens to the soul after death? There are two possibilities—heaven or hell. It will help them to arrange their life in such a way that they will live it as God wants them to live it and so ultimately obtain eternal life with God because: “no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Cor. The next life is a life without time—it i