What Christians believe about ... Life After Death
HEAVEN

The Bible says that Christians will go to heaven when they die.
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 "God has given us the privilege of being born again. Now we live with a wonderful expectation ... for God has reserved a priceless inheritance for his children. It is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay."
(The Bible, 1 Peter chapter 1 verses 3 - 4).

In the book of Revelation, heaven is described in many ways. It tells us that in heaven there will be no night, no pain, death or crying. Jesus told his disciples that he was going to prepare a place for them (and all Christians who would come after them), describing it as rooms in his father's house.

Cliff Richard explained it perfectly in his book, "You, Me and Jesus":

"When we're heartbroken and feel that the future has nothing to offer, the promises in the Bible are an enormous comfort because they tell us that sorrow and death aren't the end of the story. There's another perspective, a wider view, that makes grief and loneliness more tolerable, and it makes it possible to discover joy in the midst of suffering."

("You, Me and Jesus" by Cliff Richard,
reproduced by permission of Hodder and Stoughton Limited)
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