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| − | '''Heaven''' is a place where good people go when they die according to [[Christianity]]. Traditionally Christians imagined the blessed [[soul]]s in heaven sitting on clouds, playing harps andworshiping [[God]] eternally. Today Christians tend to call Heaven a place or a state of mind where good people are perpetually happy and worship God perpetually. |
+ | '''Heaven''' is a place where good people go [[afterlife|when they die]] according to [[Christianity]]. Traditionally Christians imagined the blessed [[soul]]s in heaven sitting on clouds, playing harps andworshiping [[God]] eternally. Today Christians tend to call Heaven a place or a state of mind where good people are perpetually happy and worship God perpetually. |
For those Christians who do believe in [[Hell]] the majority of mankind will end up there. Heaven is where the tyrant and torturer is perpetually worshipped. That looks like another form of Hell. |
For those Christians who do believe in [[Hell]] the majority of mankind will end up there. Heaven is where the tyrant and torturer is perpetually worshipped. That looks like another form of Hell. |
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[[Islam]] refers to paradise rather than heaven but the belief is similar. |
[[Islam]] refers to paradise rather than heaven but the belief is similar. |
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Revision as of 08:18, 11 July 2008
Heaven is a place where good people go when they die according to Christianity. Traditionally Christians imagined the blessed souls in heaven sitting on clouds, playing harps andworshiping God eternally. Today Christians tend to call Heaven a place or a state of mind where good people are perpetually happy and worship God perpetually.
For those Christians who do believe in Hell the majority of mankind will end up there. Heaven is where the tyrant and torturer is perpetually worshipped. That looks like another form of Hell.
Islam refers to paradise rather than heaven but the belief is similar.