GCSE Religious Studies - Y11 Life and Death (KEYWORDS)

• The teaching authority of the Church, exercised by the bishops in communion with the Pope.

• The magisterium is given grace by the Holy Spirit to faithfully interpret the Scriptures and Tradition.

• The term used to refer to life in heaven after death.

- The phrase Jesus uses to describe a state of living as God intends which leads to this life in heaven.

• Those who have accepted God’s grace and forgiveness in this life will enjoy an eternal existence in God’s presence in the next life.

• This face to face encounter with God is what we call Heaven.

• Those who through the exercise of their own free will ultimately reject God’s grace and forgiveness will have chosen to live eternally outside of God’s presence.

• The total lack of God for all eternity is what we call Hell.

is the Spiritual aspect of being; that which connects someone to God. The soul is often regarded as non physical and as living on after physical deal, in an afterlife.

The view that we are simply our physical body - there is no soul or spirit. Most non religious people believe this.

At the end of our life, we will be faced with an ultimate choice to choose God or reject God.

The decision we take leads to judgement and decided whether we ‘go’ to Heaven or Hell.

The raising of the body to life again after death.
Christians believe that Jesus has already experienced resurrection and that all people will experience it at the end of time.

The enthral part of a human being given at conception which lives on after the death of the body.Also a name for a human being’s rational nature - their mind.

• The end of physical life.

- When the physical body ceases completely to function.