Why do only we believe there's a Purgatory?

Question

im catholic and we're the only religion that believes in Purgatory? Why is that? rude answers will be reported.

Answer 1

You need to ask a bishop, and he will answer: "God chose it to be that way"

It's all about "god did it" in Christianity

Answer 2

The RC had tried to guess-up a middle place to where if your good and bad there's middle ground. What church fails to understand is this one of the reasons why God sent his only son our lord Jesus Christ to earth. Christ love for the people that He gives himself as a repentance. Therefore, wiping away ones sin.

If sin is forgiven, then there's no need of a middle place to go! Therefore, purgatory is very unnecessary! If purgatory exist,

1. It would say either Christ didn't have to come to earth or, when He did He had failed.

2. There's no mention of the word purgatory in the Holy Bible. Even most of the RC saints never mention purgatory. (Although the word Trinity is also not mention in the Bible)

3. You can't buy your way into heaven by constant prayer after death.

The term Temporal Punishment (Purgatory) come from the Latin word Purgane, draw up in 1031by the Council of Florence and Trent. The Eastern Orthodox uses the term Hades.

The Protestants uses the forgiveness of sin, repentance which therefore, couldn't support Purgatory.

God Bless

Answer 3

Look at 1 Corinthians 3:14–15: "If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire." You see, the Latinate word purgatory means a purgation or burning by fire. Paul in these verses refers to a purgation process whereby a man is saved even though his works are burned away. This is precisely what the Catholic Church teaches. A person at death who still has personal faults is prevented from entering into heaven because he is not completely purified. He must go through a period of purgation in order to be made clean, for nothing unclean will enter heaven .

2 Maccabees 12:40–45. When Judas prays and has sacrifices offered for soldiers who died in battle, he is commended for acting "very well and honorably."

We Catholics still have those seven books that were originally in the Bible, and taken out by Martin Luther in his translation. The early church fathers, Jews, Catholics, and the Eastern Orthodox have always historically proclaimed the reality of the final purification. It was not until the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century that anyone denied this doctrine.

Answer 4

Because Catholic theologians made it up. It's as simple as that. There is nothing in the Bible that even suggests that such a place as Purgatory exists.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the Proof for the existence of Purgatory is this: If Purgatory does not exist, then why do we pray for souls in Purgatory? Therefore, Purgatory exists.

That's some rude logic. :)

Answer 5

There are actually other religions (well, at least one that I know of) that have a so-called "spirit prison." However, that particular religion's doesn't last eternity. (I hope I'm right in assuming Purgatory does) There was a lot of talk in the Catholic church recently about doing away with some of the not so popular beliefs, one of them being Limbo.

Answer 6

I'm a John Paul II generation, and he didn't really put much into Purgatory. It's kinda being phased out. The big thing is that "Nothing Impure" gets into heaven. This opens the possibilites for a Purgatory, but doesn't prove or deny Purgatory.

Here's what the Catachism gives:

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. 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: <1 Cor 3:15; 1 Pet1:7>

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.

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." <2 Macc 12:46> 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. 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.

Answer 7

There is no such thing as purgatory. If you read the Bible it is not in there.There are a lot of things in the Bible that the Catholic do not follow..example..in the Bible it says you should not call anybody father except your father in heaven.Catholic call their priests father,and it does not say a priest can't get married.and Catholic pray to saints.instead of God that is idol worship.I could go on but that is a few examples.I was once a Catholic until i found the truth.Now i am a born again Christian.

Answer 8

I have never been able to find it in the Bible. I believe that the Bible is the guidebook for a Christian life, and it doesn,t say anything about purgatory. That is why non-catholic christians don't believe in it.
Also, and not to be argumentative, but I see a lot of answers saying that nothing impure can enter heaven, but that is exactly why we need a savior. We can't do it by our own good works. But the beuty of it is that in the eyes of God we are made pure by the blood of Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament, the priest would sacrifice animals to "pay" for the sins of the people, but Jesus offered Himself up as a sacrifice for all of us, to pay for all of our sins. If the blood of Jesus doesn't purify us, then why did He die? I hope that I didn't offend you, but that is what the Bible says about purification.


God Bless

Answer 9

Purgatory is not in the bible...

no explicit use of the Latin word purgatorium (purgatory) is recorded before the 11th century. One of the first documents to mention purgatorium by name was a letter from the Benedictine Nicholas of Saint Albans to the Cistercian Peter of Celle in 1176.[2

Answer 10

Purgatory? The Bible talks of Paradise and Hades, Heaven and Hell - some may refer to hades as Purgatory - It is the place our soul goes to after death(if we have been bad), it stays there until Jesus 2nd coming!

Paradise is where you go if you have been Good - the famous quote Jesus said on the cross "Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."

Answer 11

Mistranslations....If you look up the words for pitt and hell in hebrew and greek it will refer to hades or shoel, Hades is where all dead go, where there can be comfort from the thirst, and heat, then there is Tartarus where the God's go and burn for eternity for being evil, it is as far away as heaven.