The everlasting life is the perfect and eternal communion of love with God in paradise. Concerning life after death, we believe the following:
Death: it is the separation of the soul from the body.
Judgment: the particular judgment takes place immediately after our death.
According to the verdict, the souls will enter Paradise or Hell; whose who still have some sins to be expiated go to Purgatory. The final judgment will take place at the end of the world.
Purgatory: it is the place where we are purified from our sins before entering into Paradise, as stated in 2 Maccabees 12:45.
Hell: it is the state of self-separation from the communion with God. The pains of hell, which we call "fires of hell," consist in the eternal separation from God.
Paradise: it is the state of perfect communion of love with God.
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