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1,001 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Angels, Demons, and the Afterlife is unavailable, but you can change that!

Longtime believers, new Christians, and skeptics alike will enjoy this fun, fact-filled book of biblical knowledge from Bible trivia buff and best-selling author, Stephen Lang. In 1,001 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Angels, Demons, and the Afterlife, Lang addresses such subjects as "why angels are depicted with wings," "where the idea of purgatory originated," "whether Christians can be...

One reason Catholics were adamant about the divine inspiration of the Apocrypha is that the doctrine of purgatory, which had become extremely important in the Catholic system, is taught nowhere in the Old or New Testament but is taught (or hinted at) in the Apocrypha. Thus Catholics were eager to retain the Apocrypha, and Protestants were just as eager to put it aside.
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