Purgatory? Did God gave The Catholic the rights on the behalf of the departed souls?

Question

I don't think Mother Teresa of Calcutta had made it. Did she spoke of being born-again?

She never made any public profession of faith alone in Jesus Christ.

She placed her faith in the traditions and man-made doctrines of the Catholic religion.

Probably not.

There is nothing in the Bible about the Rosary or praying to God through Mary.

So why do Catholics do it?...because they are being taught the commandments of men...Catholic Religion Commits Idolatry.

Answer 1

dont think so. u either go to heaven or hell, in the BIble it gives no mention of purgatory, so i would highly doubt it.

Answer 2

Peace!
The answer to your second question is no. It just so happens that the Catholic Church believes there is such a thing as purgatory.
The word purgatory is not in the Bible. Neither is the word Trinity, but the doctrines are there. The following are some teachings from the Bible which support the doctrine of purgatory:
2 Maccabees 12, 42-46
Luke 12, 58f
1 Corinthians 3, 15
1 Peter 3, 18-20
God bless!

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Purgatory is not a Bible teaching. The Bible truth regarding the dead is this: The dead in the graves are in the condition of nonexistence. God’s promise concerning those in the memorial tombs is that they shall be awakened out of death. The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is a guarantee that those dead shall be raised up again, as Jesus himself promised at John 5:28, 29. Had any of such dead been in purgatory, Jesus certainly would have said so. Resurrection means a raising up again to life. If the creature or soul were in purgatory, there conscious and suffering, he would have to be alive. If alive, there could be no resurrection, because a live creature cannot be resurrected. Therefore religion’s doctrine of purgatory makes void the Word of God concerning the resurrection of the dead. The happy truth is that there is no purgatory and that the resurrection is God’s hope for the dead.

Answer 5

No he did not.
Although most religions teach that bad people will go to a fiery Hell of eternal torture Hell Do you know that even Good people go to Hell when they die? Hell is really just the common grave of mankind,
Have you ever seen someone tortured? Hopefully not! Deliberate torture is sickening and abhorrent. What, though, of torture inflicted by God?Can you imagine such a thing? Yet this is exactly what is implied by the teaching of Hell an official doctrine of many religions.
Imagine for a moment,the following horrific scene:A person being roasted on a hot iron plate. In his agony he screams for mercy, but nobody listens. The torture goes on and on, hour by hour, day by daywithout any pause!Whatever chrime the victim may have committed, would not your heart go out to him? What of the one who ordered the torture? Could he be a loving person? In no way!Love is mercyfull and shows pity. A loving father may punish his children, but he would never torture them!
Nevertheless, many religions teach that God tortures sinners in endlesshellfire. This is claimed, is devine justice. If thatis true,who created that terrible place of eternal torment? And who is responsible for the excruciating agonies inflicted there? The answer would seem obvious. If such a place really exists, then God would have to be the creator of it, and he would be responsible for what happens there.
Can you accept that? The Bible says:"God is Love"(1John4:8)Would a God of love inflict torture that even humans with any measure of decency find revolting? Surely not! Still, many believe that the wicked will go to a fiery hell and be tormented for ever. Is this teaching logical? The human life span is limited to 70 or 80 years. Even if someone perpetrated Extreme wickedness for his entire lifetime, would everlasting torment be a just punishment? No it would be grossly unjust to torment a person forever for the limited number of sins that he can commit in a lifetime.
Who knows the truth about what happens after we die?
Only God can reveal this information, and he has done so, in his written word the Bible.Here is what the Bible says:"As the[beast]dies, so the[man]dies; and they all have but one spirit......All are goingto one place.They have allcome from the dust, and they are all returning to the dust

Answer 6

purgatory is a place to clense the body of sins, to make yourself more pleaseing to the eyes of God.

and yes, the catholic church was the church instituted by God, and in following the bible itself, the only faith that can give the rights on behalf of the departed soul.

Answer 7

Catholic don't have the right, its God's jurisdiction.

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Answer 8

There is nothing in the Bible that mentions anything about such a place as purgatory.

Answer 9

Temporary agony, intermediate state of purification.
1 Corinthians 3:13-15
Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

Expiation of sins while on earth, to avoid having to pay in purgatory.
Matthew 5:25-26
Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.

"Extra" suffering.
Colossians 1:24
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

Degrees of expiation of sins.
Luke 12:47-48
And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

Purity needed to enter heaven; thus purification may be required.
Hebrews 12:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Revelation 21:10,27
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,... And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Hebrews 12:22-23
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, ... and to the spirits of just men made perfect ...

Answer 10

Hey don't knock it, the Catholics made a LOT of money by conning dieing people to sign over their land and wealth, so their souls would be saved, and guaranteed a place in Heaven!

Answer 11

A Muslim dies and goes to Heaven. "Welcome!" G-d says. "Muslim heaven is in room 12, if you would like to go there. But please, be very quiet when going past room 10." The Muslim nods happily and goes on to Paradise, tiptoeing past room 10. A pastor dies and goes to heaven. "Welcome!" G-d says. "Protestant heaven is in room 13, but please, be very quiet going past room 10." The pastor nods and tiptoes past room 10. A rabbi dies and goes to heaven. "Welcome!" G-d says. "Jewish heaven is in room 11. But please, be very quiet when going past room 10." "Room ten?" The rabbi asks. "Why, what's in room ten?" G-d sighs and says,
"The Catholics, and they think they're here all by themselves."

Hehehe. No offense meant, of course.

But really. OP: the idea of Purgatory stems from the original Jewish idea of it. We have this place called Gehenna which you can stay in for a maximum of 12 months depending on what you've done in this lifetime, "fixing" your sins per se. Since the original church was founded by Jews, this is where the idea came from. If you want to blame anyone, blame us. But what's wrong with the idea? You get a chance to redeem yourself. It's not an up or down choice anymore. I think it's rather cosy.