What is the origins of Purgatory?

Question

What is the origins of Purgatory? When did it start?

Answer 1

III. The Final Purification, or Purgatory

1030 All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.

1031 The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. (604) The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Councils of Florence and Trent. The tradition of the Church, by reference to certain texts of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire: (605)

As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come. (606)

1032 This teaching is also based on the practice of prayer for the dead, already mentioned in Sacred Scripture: "Therefore [Judas Maccabeus] made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin."(607) From the beginning the Church has honored the memory of the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them, above all the Eucharistic sacrifice, so that, thus purified, they may attain the beatific vision of God.(608) The Church also commends almsgiving, indulgences, and works of penance undertaken on behalf of the dead:

Let us help and commemorate them. If Job's sons were purified by their father's sacrifice, why would we doubt that our offerings for the dead bring them some consolation? Let us not hesitate to help those who have died and to offer our prayers for them. (609)

604 Cf.-

* Council of Florence (1439): DS 1304;
* Council of Trent-
o (1563): DS 1820;
o (1547): DS 1580;
* see also Benedict XII, Benedictus Deus (1336): DS 1000.

605 Cf.-

* 1 Cor 3:15;
* 1 Pet 1:7.

606 St. Gregory the Great, Dial. 4,39: PL 77, 396; cf. Mt 12:31.
607 2 Macc 12:46
608 Cf. Council of Lyons II (1274): DS 856.
609 St. John Chrysostom, Hom. in 1 Cor. 41, 5: PG 61, 361; cf. Job 1:5.

Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church, published by Ligouri Publications, English translation copyright 1994 by the United States Catholic Conference, Inc.--Libreria Editrice Vaticana, bearing the Imprimi Potest of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, pages 268, 269.

Answer 2

There is not any such factor a purgatory. That isn't within the Holy Bible and is made up by means of the catholic church. Catholics make up the whole thing they do this is going in opposition to the Word of God from the Bible. I am a former catholic and I am now a Born Again Christians, way to finding out the reality within the KJV Bible, and the younger guy who led me to Jesus.

Answer 3

God created Purgatory when he made all the rest of the heavens and the earth.

Purgatory will officially go out of business on Judgment Day.

Answer 4

On the admission of one of its cardinals, the Catholic church brought in many of the “instruments and appendages of demon-worship,” which it claims to have “sanctified by their adoption into the church.” In course of time, apostate Christianity adopted the Greek Plato’s philosophy of an inherently immortal soul, and to this it added the “hellfire” and “purgatory” teachings. Not content with myths of torture after death, the Catholic Inquisition of the thirteenth century introduced fiery tortures for “heretics” in this life. Catholic crusades sacrificed other innocent lives on the altar of carnal warfare.

“Since the early Middle Ages the Catholic Church has obtained, through the granting of indulgences alone, huge sums from rich and poor alike. These indulgences, given in return for money payments, almsgiving or other kinds of offerings, provide that one’s own soul or the soul of a deceased relative or friend be spared all or part of its destined punishment in purgatory.

Tradition is not necessarily bad. But this particular tradition is out of harmony with God’s Word. The Scriptures do not teach that the “soul” survives the death of the body. Obviously, then, it cannot be subjected to a period of purification in purgatory. Hence, the words of Jesus Christ to the Jewish religious leaders could rightly be directed to those teaching the purgatory doctrine: “You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you, when he said, ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”

Answer 5

Purgatory-Big Daddy's waiting room.

Answer 6

The concept is in the catholic bible, but not in the protestant bible. The reason is the the ones who brought the canon together of the scriptures, believed that the words in the new testament that said the Oracles of God were given to the Jews. The Jews did not include the 5 additional books and 2 chapters found in the catholic bible.


"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" Romans 3:23

"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23

"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16

"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Romans 10:9-10

Answer 7

Catholic teaching. Council of Trent, just after Protestant Reformation. Originally written to explain what happened to souls who were not yet baptized (children). It was re-developed as a "place" for souls who still had serious sin on their souls after death. It's a time of cleansing to allow advancement onto heaven.

Answer 8

nothing-its just something catholics made up to black mail other people into giving them money or else they would go to "purgatory"

Answer 9

I G N O R A N C E.