i would like to read the scriptures that tell me about purgatory since i cant find them on my own....
2007-06-12 11:50:28 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You cannot find any such false teachings or false belief about a place called purgatory outside of the Roman Catholic religion. This a false teaching and it is not taught in scripture at all. The Roman Catholic Religion has a lot of falsities that are no more Christian than Satan is. They also tells people that Mary is the Queen of the Heaven (scripture describes the Queen of Heaven as being Ishtar), that it is good to pray to Mary so that she can tell her Son and then He will tell His Father. (Jesus died on the cross so that we can go directly to God ourselves.) Jesus did not go to anything called pugatory when he was burid.
God Bless You
2007-06-12 16:14:36 · answer #1 · answered by B Baruk Today 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Purgatory was the basis of God's eternal punishment in the old Testament. There is no notion of life after death to be found in the old testament...
The idea of hell, as it is described by modern religious people, is not in the Old or New testament. It was created by the fifteenth century Italian Theosophers.
But don't ask the religious. They rarely read the Book all the way through, and they seem to have a lot of trouble distinguishing between the old and the new testaments in any event.
2007-06-12 11:58:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Purgatory is not in the Bible. It was created in the Middle Ages by the Catholc Church to extort money from people who were told that they could pay to have their loved ones' souls released from this fictional place between Heaven and Hell. The Catholic Church no longer lists purgatory in its official list of beliefs.
STuff like THIS is why I am not a Christian.
2007-06-12 12:41:23 · answer #3 · answered by yp_plum_new_york 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It doesn't. There is a place in the Acts I think where is talks about praying for people who have died, but it never mentions purgatory. That was made up. So was limbo, which is no longer a doctrine.
2007-06-12 11:57:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Scripture teaches, nothing unclean will enter the presence of God in heaven (Rev. 21:27) and, while we may die with our mortal sins forgiven, there can still be many impurities in us, specifically venial sins and the temporal punishment due to sins already forgiven.
Two Judgments
When we die, we undergo what is called the particular, or individual, judgment. Scripture says that "it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment" (Heb. 9:27). We are judged instantly and receive our reward, for good or ill. We know at once what our final destiny will be. At the end of time, when Jesus returns, there will come the general judgment to which the Bible refers, for example, in Matthew 25:31-32: "When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats." In this general judgment all our sins will be publicly revealed (Luke 12:2–5).
Augustine said, in The City of God, that "temporary punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by others after death, by others both now and then; but all of them before that last and strictest judgment" (21:13). It is between the particular and general judgments, then, that the soul is purified of the remaining consequences of sin: "I tell you, you will never get out till you have paid the very last copper" (Luke 12:59).
Why would anyone go to purgatory? To be cleansed, for "nothing unclean shall enter [heaven]" (Rev. 21:27). Anyone who has not been completely freed of sin and its effects is, to some extent, "unclean." Through repentance he may have gained the grace needed to be worthy of heaven, which is to say, he has been forgiven and his soul is spiritually alive. But that’s not sufficient for gaining entrance into heaven. He needs to be cleansed completely.
It is entirely correct to say that Christ accomplished all of our salvation for us on the cross. But that does not settle the question of how this redemption is applied to us. Scripture reveals that it is applied to us over the course of time through, among other things, the process of sanctification through which the Christian is made holy. Sanctification involves suffering (Rom. 5:3–5), and purgatory is the final stage of sanctification that some of us need to undergo before we enter heaven. Purgatory is the final phase of Christ’s applying to us the purifying redemption that he accomplished for us by his death on the cross.
One must also realize that Jesus also went to purgatory as did the thief on the cross. Jesus told him he would be in "paradise" that day. Paradise is purgatory
2007-06-12 12:57:43 · answer #5 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The only "Purgatory" worth reading about is in Dante's "Divine Comedy".. Highly recommended reading if you're into fiction, and just realizing how screwed up the Catholic Church's doctrine really is...
2007-06-12 11:57:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
This is a false doctrine that is established by the catholic church. THERE IS NO PASSAGE IN THE BIBLE FOR THIS DOCTRINE. Any doctrine not in the Bible is a false doctrine. Jesus said I am the way and life, no one come to the father except through me. IF a person believes in that false doctrine that person can lost his soul, because purgatory does not exist.
THe time to be saved is now, not in purgatory, otherwise everyone even the evil will go to heaven. Jesus did not teach about this doctrine. Its either a person is saved, meaning going to heaven or not meaning going to hell.
This doctrine can reall confuse people, many people believe that they will change their behavior in purgatory in order to be saved. This a false doctrine and it not approved by the Bible, there is no middle ground or space where a person can change himself in order to be saved. ITS EITHER HEAVEN OR HELL, THE TIME IS NOW, once you died the opportunity is gone. IF the person believes and walk according to Jesus Christ, he will go to heaven, however, if he rejects he will go to hell. THis not judging, In Malachin 4:1 it says " For behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedlyl shall be stubble; and te day that cometh sall burn them up; saith the Lord of host, that it shall leve them neither root nor branch."
"Except ye repent, ye shall alll likewise perish" Luke 13;3
2007-06-12 11:56:35 · answer #7 · answered by dimitri 3 · 4⤊ 4⤋
it doesn't teach that....luke 16:19-31 is what's used to create purgatory....being on the wrong side of the gulf after death is what caused the anguish for the rich man......
2007-06-12 11:53:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
well i dont know what faith background you are of, if its catholic, which i am not, this would be easier.
if ur not catholic than you most likely do not believe in purgatory. this is mainly because its NOT in the Bible.
only catholics believe in it because its in a book that they add to God's Word.
so if ur a catholic its in maccabees. if its not u wont find it in ur bible
2007-06-12 12:01:19 · answer #9 · answered by eyeball 2020 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's in the Catholic version of the bible...which was taken out of the KJV.....not sure where it is in there, though, maybe someone more versed can cite it.
Peace, Love, and Blessings
Greenwood
2007-06-12 11:57:23 · answer #10 · answered by Greenwood 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋