Heaven is interpeted as a glorious place, free from pain, disease, sexual activity, depression, where everyone will live in new spiritual bodies in the presence of Jesus Christ. ... The earliest books of the Bible described Sheol : an underground cavern where all people, good and bad, spent eternity after death, leading a thirsty, shadowy, energy-less existence isolated from God. ... Basing their beliefs on the some main biblical passages in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures (Old and New Testaments) and the 14 books of the Apocrypha, the Roman Catholic Church teaches that most individuals ...

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