Human Destiny

The Last Things

Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell
Particular judgment
Final judgment
Purgatory purification of the saved
The New Heavens and the New Earth
The final judgment is Christocentric
Two final destinies salvation or damnation
Unity with God or eternal separation

Destiny and the Whole Person

The destiny of man affects body and soul
We believe in the resurrection of the body
Taught by Christ, defended from the beginning
The most opposed belief St. Augustine
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The glorified body
The Ascension -- partakers of divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4)
The Assumption -- "an anticipation" (CCC 966)
The Eucharist
Hell is for whole persons too (CCC 998)
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The New Heavens and the New Earth

The new heaven and earth will restore original
justice (CCC 1047)
This new world will reflect true happiness and
justice (2 Pet. 3:13)
Union with Christ
God became man so that man might become God. (St.
Athanasius)
We will live in spiritual union with Christ (participation in the
divine life)
All our hopes for the new world come from Christ (LG 48)

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Social Nature of Human Destiny

The final judgment is in part a communal
judgment
all will rise together for judgment,
the consequences of everyone's actions will be
revealed
the new order will be the final realization of the
unity of the human race (CCC 1045)
There will be a restored community of the
redeemed
the imagery of the New Jerusalem

Beware Errors
Universalism -- We all are saved
Pelagianism I can do it on my own
Predestination Its already decided
Materialism heaven on earth
Gnosticism its all spiritual, not material
Millenarianism -- "Rapture, private revelations