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- What Is Purgatory? - Bible Study
The belief in purgatory is void of any serious doctrinal support It is not a teaching inspired by God It is a teaching that was first clearly expressed by the Roman Catholic Church as early as the Council of Florence (1431 - 1449 A D )
- Is Purgatory Mentioned in the Bible? - JW. ORG
Purgatory is defined in Catholic teaching as the state, place, or condition where the souls of those who die atone for their unforgiven sins and are purified b According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, this purification is needed “to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven ”
- Purgatory - JW. ORG
On what is the teaching of purgatory based? After reviewing what Catholic writers have said regarding such texts as 2 Maccabees 12:39-45, Matthew 12:32, and 1 Corinthians 3:10-15, the New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967, Vol XI, p 1034) acknowledges: “In the final analysis, the Catholic doctrine on purgatory is based on tradition, not Sacred Scripture ”
- What Happens After Death? - JW. ORG
“I thought there were three places a person could go at death: heaven, hell, or purgatory I knew I wasn’t good enough for heaven or bad enough for hell It was not clear to me exactly what was in purgatory I never saw any of that in the Bible It was just what people said ” —Lionel
- Death | What the Bible Says - JW. ORG
Some envision life in a Hereafter —heaven, hell, purgatory, or Limbo Others believe in rebirth as a different life-form Others believe in rebirth as a different life-form On the other hand, those who reject religious concepts believe that death is simply the end of a person’s existence
- Does Hell Exist? - Bible Study
Original words In the King James Old Testament, the original language word translated as hell in all thirty-one places it occurs is Sheol
- What Are the Seven Heavens? - Bible Study
7) The last of the seven heavenly realms, Araboth, is where justice, judgment and righteousness reside It also contains the treasures of life, of peace and of blessing, the soul of the righteous, and the spirits and souls of those who are to be born in the future
- What Does the Bible Say About Halloween and Its Origins? - JW. ORG
Halloween pumpkins, or jack-o’-lanterns: In medieval Britain, people “moved from door to door asking for food in return for a prayer for the dead,” and they would carry “hollowed-out turnip lanterns, whose candle connoted a soul trapped in purgatory ”
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