Is there a purgatory or isn't there? I don't need Atheists answer I know they don't bealive it. Oh well I could use a good laugh. BB
2007-01-29 13:49:11 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no, another myth.
2007-01-29 13:53:14 · answer #1 · answered by stephan s 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
there is no scriptural help for this delusion everywhere interior the bible.As I understand it the conception of purgatory change into presented into existence by potential of the Catholic clergy some centuries in the past to achieve more effective income. for the period of presently of this is inception there change right into a huge volume of illiteracy (even among the clergy) and shortage of expertise abounded as a lot as superstition. It change into defined to the committed that when we die if we are no longer sturdy adequate for heaven yet no longer undesirable adequate for hell? Then we pass to purgatory. yet wait!! there is more effective reported the clergy to the committed. you'll get your household out of the burning pits of purgatory such as your more effective tithes! If one supplies somewhat more effective on a primary foundation they could slowly purchase an arm out of purgatory, somewhat more effective receives the different arm. So on etc till the entire soul of the single you love is bumped off into God's heaven. After some centuries the literacy fee rose right now and many might want to work out that there change into something incorrect with this. as a count number of reality there is lots incorrect with the reigning clergy. So we protested the Catechism and were given the boot from what change into referred to as the actual church. And besides to we were branded "Protestants!" The Bible doesn't say a element about an area referred to as purgatory. I left the Catholic denomination about 20 years in the past and that change into between the justifications for leaving. i could not get any desirable solutions from the clergy.
2016-10-17 04:07:02 · answer #2 · answered by mcgoon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. 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.
2007-01-29 13:52:37 · answer #3 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No; and neither is an eternally burning hell where the unrighteous have been given immortality so that they can live for billions of milleniums in flames of fire.
In fact, the Bible indicates that death, Satan and hell itself will be destroyed in the lake of fire. The lake of fire is also where the unrighteous will perish.
Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,
Revelation 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Revelation 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
You might want to read what the Bible teaches about the moment immediately after death.
http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Your-Next-Experience-Immediately-After-Death:-What-Really-Happens-After-You-Die-&id=338240
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2007-01-29 14:00:00 · answer #4 · answered by ccttct l 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Purgatory was invented by the Catholics. It is nowhere to be found in the Bible.
sorry, I'm an atheist, but I do know a lot of the bible and religious history
2007-01-29 13:54:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Peace!
The word purgatory is not in the Bible. Neither is the word Trinity but the doctrines are there.
There is nothing more I can add to Father K's explanation to justify this Catholic doctrine.
God bless!
2007-01-29 14:41:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus promised the thief on the cross that he would be with him in Paradise that very day. That is a pretty good indication that "purgatory" is not biblical. It is another one of the Catholic inventions.
* The doctrine of Purgatory, established by Gregory I 593
* Purgatory proclaimed a dogma by Council of Florence 1439
2007-01-29 14:41:22 · answer #7 · answered by Freedom 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The catholics made this term up in order to extract money from people so that they could get their loved ones out of "purgatory". It was simply a money making scheme not much different than the money making schemes of most of the churches today.
2007-01-29 14:01:49 · answer #8 · answered by Christine5 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It is in the apochraphal books in the Old Testament. You won't find it in the Old Testament in the Protestant bible because in the New Testament it says the Oracles of God were committed to the Jews. They did not consider that those books were from God.
2007-01-29 13:58:44 · answer #9 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No it is not in the Bible. I don't believe it is there.
The Bible states to be absent from the body is to be present with The Lord.
That is proof enough for me.
2007-01-29 13:56:29 · answer #10 · answered by timjim 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You've been reading the wrong Bible I guess.
making a gathering . . . sent twelve thousand drachmas of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection (For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead). And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them. It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins. (2 Maccabees 12:43-46)
2007-01-29 13:57:48 · answer #11 · answered by ? 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋