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The Influence of Afterlife on Life

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Belief in the Afterlife

The belief in the afterlife affects the way that Christians go about their lives.

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Jesus' death

  • Belief in the afterlife helps make sense of Jesus' death and his resurrection as an act of atonement and as proof of life after death.
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Living a good life

  • Christians have confidence that those who live bad lives will be punished by God.
  • Without this belief, many Christians feel life has no purpose: If bad people are never punished life seems to favour those who are selfish and uncaring.
  • Some Christians worry that the belief encourages them to do good actions in the hope of reward, like children. They believe a good Christian should do what is right whatever the consequences.
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Conflicting beliefs

  • Some people say that Christians have a problem believing in an all-loving God, while also believing in hell as a place of unending punishment.

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