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  2. Ordeal of the bitter water - Wikipedia

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    Jerusalem Talmud: Sotah. Mishneh Torah: Sefer Nashim, Sotah. In the Hebrew Bible, the ordeal of the bitter water was a Jewish trial by ordeal administered by a priest in the tabernacle to a wife whose husband suspected her of adultery, but the husband had no witnesses to make a formal case. It is described in the Book of Numbers (Numbers 5:11 ...

  3. 2 Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    This passage was used as an example of the efficacy of monetary indulgences paid to the Catholic Church to free souls from purgatory by some Catholic authors of the period. [24] Luther disagreed with both indulgences and the concept of purgatory, and in his 1530 work Disavowl of Purgatory, he denied that 2 Maccabees was a valid source to cite. [42]

  4. Purgatory - Wikipedia

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    In Catholic doctrine, purgatory refers to the final cleansing of those who died in the State of Grace, and leaves in them only "the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven"; [3] it is entirely different from the punishment of the damned and is not related to the forgiveness of sins for salvation.

  5. Sodom and Gomorrah - Wikipedia

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    Lot and Chedorlaomer. Sodom and Gomorrah are two of the five "cities of the plain" referred to in Genesis 13:12 and Genesis 19:29 that rebel against Chedorlaomer of Elam, to whom they were subject. At the Battle of Siddim, Chedorlaomer defeats them and takes many captives, including Lot, the nephew of the Hebrew patriarch Abraham.

  6. Hell - Wikipedia

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    Hell – detail from a fresco in the medieval church of St Nicholas in Raduil, Bulgaria. Belief in hell by country (2017–2020) In religion and folklore, hell is a location or state in the afterlife in which souls are subjected to punitive suffering, most often through torture, as punishment after death.

  7. Prayer for the dead - Wikipedia

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    A passage in the New Testament which is seen by some to be a prayer for the dead is found in 2 Timothy 1:16–18, which reads as follows: . May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy on that day); and in how many ...

  8. Gehenna - Wikipedia

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    Islam. The name given to Hell in Islam, Jahannam, directly derives from Gehenna. [51] The Quran contains 77 references to the Islamic interpretation of Gehenna (جهنم), but does not mention Sheol / Hades as the "abode of the dead", and instead uses the word "Qabr" (قبر, meaning grave).

  9. Barzakh - Wikipedia

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    Based in least in part on the verse "Before them is a Partition till the Day they are raised up." (Q.23:100) [6] Some scholars believe that good Muslims will have a heavenly experience during this time, and sinners will experience suffering; [6] [9] [10] while some Shia scholars believe there is no experience of physical pain or pleasure in ...