Hood,Kenisha

Kenisha Hood Rough Draft Research Question: How are the visions of the Afterlife similar between Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism? Introduction: Afterlife is a topic that is discussed throughout many religions. Each religion has there own vision of what the actually “afterlife” is but what do each ideal of it has in common? __ Interpretation and Analysis __ : Christianity-  In the bible, it says that when you die, your soul and spirit leaves your body on earth and goes to God. If god accepts you, then you go to heaven and if he rejects you then you go to hell. God determines where you go depending on if you rejected him or accepted him in your life. Souls that are rejected are sinners. In the bible it says, Revelation 21:8 === “But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” This quote means that if you are a sinner, you will go to place called hell, which is a sort of punishment. Hell is ran by the devil also known as Satan. In the bible it says,  ===

Revelation 12:9
“And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.” In the quote where it says ‘the great dragon was thrown down’ it is referring to the devil and how he was rejected. The visions of Heaven, however, differ. Heaven is looked upon as a good place to end up in the afterlife. The bible refers to heaven as “ a city built of gold” and hell as a “lake of fire”. Islam- In the text of the Quran, it says that Muslims believe that there is a judgment day. Judgment day is a day when Allah, Islam’s God, judges whether someone gets admitted into “Paradise” or not. Each person has a book of good deeds and a book of bad deeds. Allah asks the person if they have done the bad deeds and then he will see which deeds the person has more of. If the person has more good than bad, then they can go to ‘Paradise’. If they are more bad deeds than good deeds than the person will have to go to hell for torture to make up for their sins. Islam vision of Heaven is also a good place to end up in the afterlife but Muslims call it Jannah. It is seen as place full of joy and bliss. "The description of Paradise which the Muttaqoon have been promised is that in it are rivers of water, the taste and smell of which are never changed. Rivers of milk the taste of which will remain unchanged. Rivers of wine that will be delicious to those who drink from it and rivers of clear, pure honey. For them will be every kind of fruit and forgiveness form their Lord."Quran 47:15 This quote from the Quran is describing what Heaven is like for Islam. "They will say, 'Woe to us! This is the Day of Doom.' Assemble the wrong-doers and their wives and the things they worshipped besides Allah, then lead them to the fierce flaming fires of Hell." Qur'an 37:19 Just like other religions, they described their ‘hell’ as a place of fire. Hinduism In the religion of Hinduism, Hindus believe in reincarnation. Reincarnation is a cycle which when you die, you are born again but each time it is a different soul. A person’s next life is good or bad determine on the good karma in their previous life. A person will continue the cycle until they are perfect as a whole. Compare And Contrast: There are many differences and similarities between the Final thoughts/Reflections Quotes: