Heaven, Hell and Purgatory
What do Buddhists believe about Hell?
Buddhism teaches that there are five (sometimes six) realms of rebirth, which can then be further subdivided into degrees of agony or pleasure. Of these realms, the hell realms, or Naraka, is the lowest realm of rebirth. Of the hell realms, the worst is Avīci or "endless suffering".
What do Buddhists believe about Purgatory?
Buddhists believe a being is born into a Naraka as a direct result of his or her accumulated karma and stays there for a long time until that karma has achieved its full result. After this, he or she will be reborn in one of the higher worlds as the result of karma that had not yet ripened. This is kind of their version of purgatory.
What do Buddhists believe about Heaven?
Buddhists do not believe in the concept of heaven. All life is believed to be recycled into new life. The way you live your life now will reflect on your future birth.
What do Muslims believe about Hell?
Hell, or Jahannam, is mentioned frequently in the Qur'an using a variety of imagery. It has seven doors leading to a fiery crater of various levels, the lowest of which contains the tree Zaqqum and a cauldron of boiling pitch. The level of hell depends on the degree of offenses. Suffering is both physical and spiritual.
What do Humanists believe about Heaven, Hell and Purgatory?
Humanists believe in no life after death. They rely upon themselves and other human beings, and devote their time and energy to the world they live in.
What is the key term for Purgatory?
In some traditions, a condition or state in which good souls receive spiritual cleansing after death, in preparation for heaven
What do Muslims believe about Purgatory?
Muslims believe in Barzakh, not Purgatory, a term that appears in the Qur'an, it is the intermediate state in which the soul of the deceased is transferred across the boundaries of the mortal realm into a kind of "cold sleep" where the soul will rest until the Qiyamah (Judgement Day). This concept corresponds to that of soul sleep, not to that of purgatory.
What do Muslims believe about Heaven?
Muslims call it paradise, also called "The Garden" (Janna), is a place of physical and spiritual pleasure, with lofty mansions, delicious food and drink, and virgin companions called houris. They believe there are seven heavens.
What do Christian believe about Hell?
Some Christians believe that hell is a place of suffering, and of separation from God. Others (perhaps most) believe that hell is a spiritual state of being separated from God for eternity.
What do Christian believe about Purgatory?
Some Christians, including Roman Catholics, believe in purgatory. This is an in-between state for the majority of people of waiting for heaven, a time of cleansing from sin and preparing for heaven.
What do Christian believe about Heaven?
Some believe that heaven is a physical place, where their body goes after death. Others believe that it is their soul that lives on, and that heaven is a state of being united with God.
What is the key term for Hell?
The place or state, in which souls will be separated from God after death
What is the key term for Heaven?
The place or state, in which souls will be united with God after death
