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Monthly Archives: October 2025

What is the origin of Halloween?

Answered by . October 26, 2025 - 10:18 am

Halloween is a medieval Christian festival held on the night before Allhallowtide. The present date of Hallowmas (All Saints’ Day) and therefore also of its vigil (Hallowe’en) was established in Rome around the time of Pope Gregory III (731–741). The festival does not have any particular pre-Christian pagan origin (despite spurious claims on the Internet […]

Does the bible teach conditional immortality or eternal conscious torment?

Answered by . October 22, 2025 - 6:56 pm

The opposing terms “conditional immortality” (CI) vs “eternal conscious torment” (ECT) are recent terms which have developed a usage on the Internet, but are not scholarly terms widely used in theological literature.* In particular the abbreviations “CI” vs “ECT” are almost unknown outside a few discussion boards. To most readers the abbreviation “ECT” if it […]

Does Isaiah 44:24 destroy the claims of the Trinity?

Answered by . October 13, 2025 - 2:01 pm

In a word, yes. Though it is hardly the only verse in the Bible to do so. Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,     who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things,     who alone stretched out the heavens,     who spread out the earth by myself, (Isaiah 44:24 NRSV) Isaiah 44:24 is often used […]