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The most strict view (that of Kharidji Ibadis, descended from the Kharijites) was that every Muslim who dies having not repented of their sins was considered a kafir. In between these two positions, the Mu'tazila believed that there was a status between believer and unbeliever called "rejected" or fasiq. [22]
The fate of the dying after leaving the body depends on whether they are believers or unbelievers. Depending on the state of the soul, the deceased will undergo different journeys. When a righteous believer dies, bright-faced angels from heaven descends with divine perfume and shroud.
God the Son, Jesus Christ, became man for us, was crucified, died, and rose. [11] Unbaptized catechumens can be saved, in the Roman Catholic view, because the desire to receive the sacrament of baptism, together with sincere repentance for one's sins and the attainment of "divine and Catholic faith", insures salvation. [12]
In Islam, Taqiyya (Arabic: تقیة, romanized: taqiyyah, lit. 'prudence') [1] [2] is the practice of dissimulation and secrecy of religious belief and practice, primarily in Shia Islam.
The phrase spiritual death is not found in Protestant scriptures, and definitions of the concept thus vary among Protestant Christians. Spiritual death is distinct from physical death and the second death.
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant is a series of ten high fantasy novels written by American author Stephen R. Donaldson.The series began as a trilogy, entitled The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever.
A detail from Hieronymus Bosch's depiction of Hell (16th century). In Christian theology, Hell is the place or state into which, by God's definitive judgment, unrepentant sinners pass in the general judgment, or, as some Christians believe, immediately after death (particular judgment).
Only unbelievers will reside in hell permanently. [83] [Note 4] Thus Jahannam combines both the concept of an eternal hell (for unbelievers), and what is known in Christian Catholicism as purgatory (for believers eventually destined for heaven after punishment for their sins). [86]