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2006-09-20 20:01:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not a Catholic. but until you understand this, your not going to understand anything about hell itself.
Is There A Real Hell?
What do these names Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, Queber, Tartarus, Abyss, Hell, and the Lake of Fire mean.
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Jesus Christ Himeslf preached more about hell than any other person in the Bible. Hell is mentioned 167 times. The word hell is mentioned 69 times with 8 different meanings.
2006-09-20 20:16:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
No.
Catholics believe that once someone is in hell, he (or she) will stay there forever.
However Catholics do pray for the dead for the following reasons:
+ We pray that the the dead person was right with God at the time of his (or her) death. God can do anything and is not constrained by a little thing like time.
+ We pray that the dead person will not have a hard process of purgation.
Yes, Catholics believe in Purgatory.
Are you perfect now? Most people would say no.
Will you be perfect in heaven? Most people believe yes.
Purgatory (or purgation) is the process of God's love changing our imperfect selves into perfect beings.
Depending on the amount of change needed by different people this can be an easy or slightly harder process.
Everyone in purgatory is on their way to heaven.
I don't think Mother Teresa of Calcutta had a very hard time of it.
With love in Christ.
2006-09-24 02:15:10 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure if they still ask for it today, but if loved ones had passed on and were in 'purgatory' serving the punishment for sin, and being cleansed by fire from sin, after hundreds of years or something they could then goto heaven. If you paid alot of money, the priests would gather together and pray for that person who died, and they will be pulled out of purgatory then goto heaven.
But this is silly, because Ecc 9:5 says "the dead know not anything". In reality people goto heaven after the descent of Christ the second time to the earth.
2006-09-21 03:15:12 · answer #3 · answered by Sky_blue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The roman catholic church used this lie to get extra income. There was a place b4 Jesus called pergatory, or Paradise (remember the thief on the cross). b4 Jesus all souls went to this holding area by the above names. At the end of John or beginninh of Acts it says Jesus descended and then ascended to heaven taking souls with Him. He went to this place called hades, paradice, pergatory and told them the truth and those who believed went with Him to heaven
I REPEAT THERE IS NO LONGER A PURGATORY, HADES, PARADISE (THIS ONE PLACE) THEY CEASED TO EXIST AFTER THE NEED FOR IT VANISHED, THAT WAS WHEN jESUS EMPTIED THE PLACE. NOW HELL IS A DIFFERENT STORY.
Martin Luther confronted the roman catholic church about these letters of indulgemce (they were selling parayers to get people relitives out of pergatory when they knew there no longer was such a place these promises to pray were called letters of indulgence) and that is when the split of churches took place. Luther encouraged people to read their bibles so the church leadership could no longer lie to them for profit.
Still today people would rather hear lies than read it themselves.
When you ask a question you should ask where inthe Bible it says that and then read to be sure they did not lie to you.
I might be lieing to you???
2006-09-21 03:19:30 · answer #4 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope because the word of God is infallible. He wouldn't just let a Believer go to hell FOR NO REASON. The believer would have to do something horrible that they didn't repent for. And even uf that was to happen, the prayers of others wouldn't help that soul get to paradise. Now at one time before Jesus died on the cross everyone went to hell because everyone was born in sin (on account of Adam and Eve). After Jesus died, He went to hell and freed all of the saints.
2006-09-21 03:07:11 · answer #5 · answered by peach49444 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, its true. God is the most forgiving and merciful, God finds excuses to forgive people and send them to Heaven instead of Hell, but depends who that other person who prays is.
2006-09-21 03:06:40 · answer #6 · answered by Dr Dee 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Once you enter Hell, your stay there is forever.
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
IV. HELL
1033 We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him. But we cannot love God if we sin gravely against him, against our neighbor or against ourselves: "He who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him."612 Our Lord warns us that we shall be separated from him if we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones who are his brethren.613 To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called "hell."
1034 Jesus often speaks of "Gehenna" of "the unquenchable fire" reserved for those who to the end of their lives refuse to believe and be converted, where both soul and body can be lost.614 Jesus solemnly proclaims that he "will send his angels, and they will gather . . . all evil doers, and throw them into the furnace of fire,"615 and that he will pronounce the condemnation: "Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire!"616
1035 The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, "eternal fire."617 The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs.
1036 The affirmations of Sacred Scripture and the teachings of the Church on the subject of hell are a call to the responsibility incumbent upon man to make use of his freedom in view of his eternal destiny. They are at the same time an urgent call to conversion: "Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few."618
Since we know neither the day nor the hour, we should follow the advice of the Lord and watch constantly so that, when the single course of our earthly life is completed, we may merit to enter with him into the marriage feast and be numbered among the blessed, and not, like the wicked and slothful servants, be ordered to depart into the eternal fire, into the outer darkness where "men will weep and gnash their teeth."619
1037 God predestines no one to go to hell;620 for this, a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end. In the Eucharistic liturgy and in the daily prayers of her faithful, the Church implores the mercy of God, who does not want "any to perish, but all to come to repentance":621
Father, accept this offering
from your whole family.
Grant us your peace in this life,
save us from final damnation,
and count us among those you have chosen.622
2006-09-21 04:03:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Your prayers can only get people out of Purgatory.
2006-09-21 03:03:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
from what i understand no, you cant get out of hell but if you are sent to pergatory, an in between place, enough prayers can eventually lift you out of it.
2006-09-21 03:08:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
my friend above have already answered it
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2006-09-21 03:19:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋