The view that a person holds about the afterlife is bound to affect the value given to this current life. Christian beliefs about life after death are based on the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The Christian faith states that the death of the physical body is not the end. After time on Earth, the faith believes that humans will have eternal life in the afterlife.
Christianity teaches that:
all humans have a soul
the soul is a non-physical part of a human being that lives on after the death of the physical body
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life
— John 3:16
For Christianity, the main distinction between the body and soul is that:
the body is mortalBeing subject to death.
the soul is immortalThe idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body.
According to the Christian faith, humans’ time on Earth will be judged by God and this will determine what happens to the soul in the afterlife. Christianity teaches that humans will either go to HeavenA place, or a state of mind, associated with God and the afterlife. or HellA place or state of torment and punishment for those who have done wrong..
