Death, Afterlife and Eschatology

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This paper examines the theology of eschatology which is concerned with the end of the world or of humankind as well as different religious views of death and the afterlife. Christianity views the end of life as the ascension unto heaven, whereas the Jewish approach to the afterlife is limited to a vision of being with God in heaven which is an entry open to all whom God forgives at the last moment of human life.

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"To some, death is a release. To others it is merely an event that propels them from one life to another. It is significant to realize that those who may well be the most devout in Hindu and Buddhist religions are the Untouchables, or the lower classes, who can hardly wait to be released from their unhappy lives and, having committed no grave sins, will be reborn, reincarnated, into a better life to come. Their goal, of course, is the perfection of Nirvana."

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