Catholicisms_View_On_Life_After_Death

Catholicisms View On Life After Death Catholicism’s beliefs in Afterlife Roman Catholicism has been around for a long time, nearly 2000 years. Due to this long history, tradition plays a very important role in this belief. Roman Catholicism’s distinctive tradition is the backbone to their beliefs and rituals of death and afterlife. These beliefs explain to them the ways to achieve this afterlife, what is waiting for them in the afterlife and how they could be denied heaven. Catholics believe first in the nature of God. The bible reveals in a special way God’s inmost personality, what he is really like. He is an awesome, sovereign Lord, is generous, accepting and selflessly shares with innumerable creatures the life that is his alone by right. He is upholding of the moral law yet remarkably is non judgmental, wants to forgive not punish. Second is the nature of human beings. Created in the image of God, more like him than anything else that exists. We are destined to share his own unlimited life and felicity. Roman Catholicism believes in the basic goodness of human nature. Third, existence of the Devil is essential. Such a belief gives an explanation for the pervasive evil god, life, existence, death, afterlife, jesus, human, beliefs, suffering, something, salvation, roman, nature, jesus’, heaven, gift, catholic, body, believe, being, yet, world, while, water, undeserving, tradition, time, through, sinless, share, right, resurrection, resurrected, reigns, rebirth