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Christianity

Christianity has its origins in Judaism, but broke away at the time of Jesus Christ, who was a Jew.

Death and the afterlife have always been a dominant aspect of Christianity, which now has many different divisions. Christians believe that God is at once one deity in the form of three, a Holy Trinity: The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Underlying Christianity is the belief that the Son of God, Jesus Christ, came down to Earth and died to save mankind's place to save us all from sin.

The Christian faith teaches that the soul is immortal and that it will transcend the death of the physical body, rising to an eternal spiritual afterlife as Jesus Christ rose from the dead three days after his crucifixion. Before ascending to heaven, he appeared to his disciples, directing them to go forth and spread the word of his teachings.

Souls of the dead are judged upon the body's death and their destination is decided by how truly they have loved God. Central to Christian thinking is the concept of punishment in the afterlife for mortal sin. Christians are united in their conviction that there is a heaven of extraordinary beauty where the souls of the righteous and those who sincerely repent their sins may be delivered into the presence of God after their earthly death, but divided in their concepts of hell and purgatory.