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The Church explains biblical descriptions of hell being "eternal" or "endless" punishment as being descriptive of their infliction by God rather than an unending temporal period. Latter-day Saint scripture quotes God as saying "I am endless, and the punishment which is given from my hand is endless punishment, for Endless is my name.
The Torment of Saint Anthony (1488) by Michelangelo, depicting Saint Anthony being assailed by demons. Christian demonology is the study of demons from a Christian point of view.
In addition to the use of world history and the expansion of Biblical books, additional vehicles for the adornment of Biblical tales were popular sagas, legends, and fairy tales. These provided elaborate views of a dualistic creation where the Devil vies with God, and creates disagreeable imitations of God's creatures like lice, apes, and women ...
The Testament of Solomon is a pseudepigraphical work, purportedly written by King Solomon, in which the author mostly describes particular demons who he enslaved to help build the temple, the questions he put to them about their deeds and how they could be thwarted, and their answers, which provide a kind of self-help manual against demonic activity.
[99] [100] The seventieth week is then separated from the 69th week by a long period of time, known in dispensational speak as the church age; [99] [96] hence, the 70th week does not begin until the end of the church age, at which point the church will be removed from the earth in an event called the rapture. Finally, the future Antichrist is ...
By the start of this year, LifeWise had set up chapters in more than 300 schools in a dozen states, teaching 35,000 public school students weekly Bible lessons that are usually scheduled to ...
The Harrowing of Hell is commemorated in the liturgical calendar on Holy Saturday. [ 5 ] According to The Catholic Encyclopedia , the story first appears clearly in the Gospel of Nicodemus in the section called the Acts of Pilate , which also appears separately at earlier dates within the Acts of Peter and Paul . [ 6 ]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 February 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. In Christian belief, the Last Judgement is an apocalyptic event where God makes a final ...