Comparing Views on Life After Death of Two Religions
God sent his prophets on the earth to teach people that god creates
them and he has given a purpose of living this life in his remembrance
and eventually he will raise them to see how they have followed his
instructions. Thus the belief in life after death is an improvement
point of believing in god. They laid so much emphasis on this that
even a slight doubt in the belief of life after death meant denying
God. So this made all other beliefs meaningless. Almost every religion
has this belief but depending on the teachings of the scriptures the
views might be different. For example some explain the term of passing
the test in this world by continuously being reborn until they have
reached perfection and this is known as reincarnation and some think
it as a resurrection of the soul and other talk about the body
resurrection.
People of faith believe that the belief in life after death makes a
believer to behave in an appropriate way, as he knows that if he did
some thing wrong he will be punished and for a good deed there is a
reward in hereafter.
Based on this Islamic teaching the belief about life after death is
very necessary as the Hadith below explains.
"You must believe in Allah, His messengers, His holly books, in the
last day and life after death." [HADITH]
Basically this Hadith explains the whole Islamic belief and testifies
that the belief in last day and life after death is necessary as this
gives the meaning to this life and purpose for it.
Muslims believe that God does not create any thing without a purpose.
So, there is a purpose to this life and after...
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...his emphasis that the good will be rewarded and go to heaven and bad
is going to go in to hell a punishment.
After looking at the views of two different religions about the same
topic, 'life after death', I found that there is no lot difference
between the concepts of events thought to be taken place at the
judgement day e.g. the hell is described with the same meanings in
both holy books and however among both religions there are different
ideas. According to both religions the belief in life after death is
important and that there shall be an eternal existence beyond the
grave for every human being who has lived on earth. Although there is
no right or wrong answer to whether or not life after death exists as
no body claim to be an authority on life after death, for as yet none
of us have entered in that other life.
controls or around him for a long period of time, the least punishment he will get is being exiled
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be punished for. In other words he will be the bad guy. Even his wife
John L McIntosh. (2003) . Handbook of Death and Dying. Volume 1: The Presence of Death. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference.
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