everlasting life

Never-ending existence

Everlasting life is existence that continues without end, particularly after physical death.

The phrase appears most often in religious contexts, where it refers to the soul's immortality or eternal salvation promised to believers.

Christians speak of everlasting life as the reward for faith, while other traditions have their own conceptions of what persists beyond death.

He devoted himself to good works in hopes of everlasting life.

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duration of existence

everlasting lifemortality

State of eventual death

impermanence · transience · death · finitude · ephemerality

theological/spiritual outcome

everlasting lifeeternal damnation

Everlasting punishment after death

eternal death · hell · perdition · damnation · eternal punishment

ontological status

everlasting lifedeath

Cessation of life

eternal death · oblivion · nonexistence · nothingness · annihilation

Family

life, ever, lasting, forever, lifetime, everlasting, lifelong, everlastingly, everlastingness

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