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Podcast: Bible Study - Sabbath School Podcast
Episode: Episode 2048: Lesson 10 June 2: The deadly consequences of spiritualism
Description: The fable that death is really just entrance to a new stage of life is based on the concept of the soul’s natural immortality. This pagan idea infiltrated the church early on as it moved away from its biblical foundations in an attempt to make its faith understandable to the wider Roman world. “The theory of the immortality of the soul was one of those false doctrines that Rome, borrowing from paganism, incorporated into the religion of Christendom.”—Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 549.“ ‘And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather f...