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Life After Death: Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory

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Questions Covered:

  • 06:50 - Are you conscious of other people that are in purgatory with you? 
  • 12:14 - Am I supposed to take stories like Paradise Lost and Dante’s Divine Comedy literally? 
  • 17:30 - I know there are demons in hell and on earth. How do you overcome the temptations of demons? 
  • 28:50 - When people go to heaven, does it look like earth? 
  • 41:47 - Wouldn’t only using one scripture verse be shaky ground for explaining purgatory? 
  • 51:30 – Can you talk about visions of hell? 
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