At bottom a clear and reflective conception of a life after death, in which one is rewarded or punished for one’s life here, is a very complex and remote deduction from the notion of sanction.
The moral horror of crime, which is in the generality of cases stronger than any other repugnance, will always separate us from criminals, whatever the prevailing beliefs as to life after death.
The notion of a divine intervention to trim the balance of the social order, to punish and to recompense, was at first altogether foreign to the belief in a continuation of life after death; it became allied to this belief much later.
Savage, Life after Death, 61--The Pharisees held very exaggerated notions of the number of angelic spirits.
Savage, Life after Death, 33--"Men did not at first believe in natural death.
For when a man acts from religion, he acknowledges in heart that there is a God, a heaven and a hell, and a life after death.
But when he acts from regard merely to the civil and moral law, he may act in the same way, and yet in heart may deny that there is a God, a heaven and a hell, and a life after death.
This identification of the dead man with the dead god Osiris was later enlarged to include all men, and became in the Ptolemaic period the most characteristic feature of the Egyptian conception of life after death.
Life after death is still always the same as life on earth--with the same physical needs, with the same need of help from supernatural powers or against supernatural powers.
In the doctrines of life after death, this influence of the priesthood is distinctly seen.
But many savage races not only believe in a life after death; they are even of opinion that they would never die at all if it were not for the maleficent arts of sorcerers who cut the vital thread prematurely short.
Word no one could have known about God, heaven and hell, life after death, and still less about the Lord.
Security of life arises either from the belief of the impious man that there is no life after death, or from the belief of one who separates life from salvation.
These spirit-writers tell us of life after death, but nothing that is a contribution to existing ignorance on the subject.
Other stories of life after death, given from the spirit-angle rather than from the mortal point of view as in most ghost stories, are among the recent types of supernaturalism.
The symbolic treatment of the theme of life after death is more effective and shows more literary art than the conventional pictures of Mrs. Ward's and Mrs. Oliphant's.
But in the division of the book whose title is "Life after Death" not even one point was to be distinctly seen.
If there were no life after this, everything on earth would be too unequally distributed, and the Almighty would not be justice itself.
And he bent down over the Book of Truth, and gazed at the page on which he should read of life after death; but for him nothing was to be seen or learned upon it.
Age after age, life after life, you have been the victim, the slave, the tool of this man, who is stronger than you are.
Through ignorance one accumulates bad Karma, life after life, which is gradually paid off in such a way as not to bear too hardly on those who have to suffer.
Life after life, as in Chaldea, he has made you more and more his slave by working through your senses.
It would set right grave misunderstandings which have always offended the reason of every thoughtful man, but it would also confirm and make absolutely certain the fact of life after death, the base of all religion.
In connection with the general subject of life after death, people may say we have got this knowledge already through faith.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "life after" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
