Starter quiz
- Match the term to its correct definition.
- euthanasia⇔intentionally ending a life to relieve suffering ✓
- hospice⇔a place offering palliative care for the terminally ill ✓
- living will⇔a document stating medical treatment preferences ✓
- palliative care⇔medical care focused on comfort and pain relief ✓
- Christians believe euthanasia conflicts with the ______ of life.
- 'sanctity' ✓
- All Christians believe euthanasia is always wrong.
- True
- False ✓
- Neither true or false
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- Some Christians believe that withdrawing treatment is morally different from euthanasia.
- True ✓
- False
- Partially true
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- Which Bible teaching is often used to argue against euthanasia?
- “Love your neighbour as yourself.”
- “So God created mankind in his own image.” ✓
- “Blessed are the peacemakers.”
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- Why do some Christians support palliative care instead of euthanasia?
- It allows natural death while relieving suffering. ✓
- It keeps people alive at all costs.
- It forces patients to refuse all pain medication.
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Exit quiz
- Many Christians believe helping others is important because it affects their destiny after death.
- True ✓
- False
- Neither
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- What do most Christians believe about life after death?
- The soul simply ceases to exist.
- The body and soul will be resurrected and transformed. ✓
- Only saints will go to heaven.
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- What is the Catholic belief about purgatory?
- a temporary place of purification before heaven ✓
- a second chance for sinners to enter heaven
- a place where souls stay forever
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- What do Christians believe happens at the Final Judgment?
- People are given a second life on Earth.
- Everyone goes to heaven regardless of their actions.
- God will judge all people based on their faith and actions. ✓
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- How do some Christians interpret heaven and hell?
- as literal places of reward and punishment
- as metaphorical states representing closeness or separation from God ✓
- as a concept invented by the Church
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- Jesus’ resurrection is significant because it gives Christians hope of ______ life.
- 'eternal' ✓
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Key learning points
- Christians believe in life after death because of Jesus’ resurrection and the promise of a transformed body.
- Christian views vary: some see heaven and hell as real places, others as symbolic.
- Catholics believe in purgatory a place of purification.
- Arguments for life after death include Jesus’ resurrection and paranormal evidence.
- Arguments against include the possibility of fraudulent accounts and social control.
Common misconception
All Christians believe in heaven and hell as literal places.
Some Christians interpret them metaphorically as states of being, such as being in God's presence or separation from God.
Keywords
Heaven - a place of eternal happiness and union with God for those who have lived righteously
Hell - a state of eternal separation from God for those who have rejected him or lived sinfully
Purgatory - in Catholic belief, a temporary state of purification for souls who are destined for heaven but need to be cleansed of sin
Resurrection - being raised from the dead; the form that many Christians believe the afterlife will take, referring to either physical or spiritual bodies
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