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Mar 31, 2020 · Playlist. Religion scholar Bart Ehrman says the notion of eternal rewards and punishments isn't found in the Old Testament or in the teachings of Jesus. Ehrman traces the...
- Belief in God, Heaven, Hell and Life After Death
- The UK Is Very Tolerant of Different Faiths Despite Not Being Very Religious
- And Confidence in Religious Institutions Has Begun to Rebound
God
Just under half (49%) of Britons said they believed in God in 2022 – down from three-quarters (75%) in 1981. Of 24 nations in the study, only five are now less likely than the UK to say they believe in God, with China (17%) by far the least likely to. And the share of the British public who say God is not important in their life has doubled and is now at a record high, rising from 28% to 57% between 1981 and 2022. Just five out of 24 countries are less likely than the UK (23%) to say God is i...
Heaven and hell
Between 1981 and 2022, the share of the public believing in heaven fell from 57% to 41%. Despite this, the idea of heaven is still more popular than hell, which 26% said they believed in in 2022 – a figure largely unchanged since trends began. While younger people have lower levels of religious belief and are more likely to identify as atheists, Gen Z (32%) and Millennials (32%) are in fact more likely than Baby Boomers (18%) and the Pre-War generation (24%) to believe in hell. And by interna...
Life after death
Views on life after death have held up well over the last four decades, with just under half of the public – including 46% in 2022 – consistently saying they believe in it. And again, despite their lack of faith, younger people have higher levels of belief: in 2022, majorities of Gen Z (51%) and Millennials (53%) said they believed in life after death – higher than the share of Baby Boomers (35%) and the Pre-War generation (39%) who said the same.
82% of the UK public say they trust people of a different religion – the second highest of 24 nations, behind only Sweden (87%) and on a par with Norway (82%). And among a smaller sample of 17 countries where the question was asked, only Germany (10%) and Japan (11%) are less likely than people in the UK (12%)to agree that the only acceptable relig...
Between 1981 and 2018, Britons’ confidence in churches and religious organisations fell from 49% to 31%, but by 2022 had risen again, to 42%. However, of 24 countries, the UK still ranks among the bottom half for confidence in such institutions, including behind the likes of Norway (50%), Italy (53%) and the US (54%). David Voas, professor of socia...
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Visions of the afterlife were an early and popular source for images of heaven, hell, and Purgatory. Whereas early Christian images of purgation centred on fire that might be traversed with little or no pain for martyrs and the ‘just’, the medieval West moved towards imagining the pains of purgatory as analogous to those of hell and ...
In contrast, the Bible depicts Hell as a terrible place where souls will not know the presence of God. Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life. (Matthew...
Jun 25, 2019 · This sense of proportionality led around the year 1000 CE to the invention of another place between heaven and hell – a place of purification of our sins.
- Philip C. Almond
Apr 23, 2013 · Thanks to God’s grace, we ultimately determine our own destiny in heaven or hell. These two very different explanations for a final and irrevocable division within the human race, where some end up in heaven and others in hell, also reflect profound disagreements over the nature of divine grace.
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Mar 31, 2020 · Bart Ehrman says the ideas of eternal rewards and punishments aren't found in the Old Testament or in the teachings of Jesus. His new book is Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife.
