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Bookmark or Share- What Does the Bible Say About Halloween and Its Origins? - JW.ORGHalloween 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.”
- Are Jehovah’s Witnesses Christians? - JW.ORGIf Jesus is the name by which people can be saved, do Jehovah’s Witnesses have a basis for salvation?
- What Is Purgatory? - Bible StudyThe 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.).
- Meaning of the Number 95 in the Bible - Bible StudyIndulgences, which were sold by the clergy and open to abuse, allowed the purchaser to lessen their temporal punishment in purgatory after they died. This evil practice, which has no support in the Bible, is known as Simony (named after Simon Magus, Acts 8:9 - 24).
- Death | What the Bible Says - JW.ORGSome 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.
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