Rel 134

The Belief in After Life of Christianity

Jorge A. Leyva

REL/134

07/13/2011

Deborah L. George, MA

The Belief in After Life of Christianity

In our presentation we have reviewed several points on the After Life and how it relates to religion specifically on how it relate to Christian believers when it comes to life after life. We also dwelled into how Mormonism deals with the exact same topic. Then we look at another religion of the three that has another perspective when looking at what is believed in the After Life and how it is to be attained when you are a Muslim.

Mormonism

In Mormonism the belief in Salvation and the After Life is that there are steps to get there and we learned how you must follow a sort of plan that gets you to your salvation. We learn from the beginning that they believe in a pre-mortal existence, then we came to Earth to live mortal life to die again and have God assign a place of eternal life based on our works.

Islam

Muslims believe that there a narrow path of good deeds that need to be done to attain salvation and if your deeds are not good then you will fall off the bridge and into hell.

Christianity

When we look at Christianity we must have a child like faith when believing in the word and how it relates to how we believe. There is just one simple step when it comes to attaining the Life after life. We must just simple repent and accept our sin and give it to God and have us be forgiven of all of our sin which according to scripture will be forgiven and saved by Grace. It is only by Grace that we are saved in our communion with God.

In scripture we learn about sin and how in Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” here we learn how “sin” separates us from God and keeps us from attaining salvation. Once we repent our “sins” we can attain Salvation and have our names written in the Lambs book of life. To attain Salvation you must go...