2007-09-13 09:52:34 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As I'm sure you know already, it is not mentioned at all. When I asked a Roman Catholic priest to justify it from Scripture, he mentioned a rather obscure reference in the Apocrypha: 2 Maccabees 12:43-45, where 2.000 pieces of silver were sent to Jerusalem for a sin-offering...Whereupon he made reconciliation for the dead, that they might be delivered from sin. On the basis of that reference alone, the whole doctrine of purgatory has been constructed.
2007-09-13 11:17:17 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Purgatory itself does not exist, but the resting time for the souls.
That is the reason that Lazarus was said to be sleeping.
There are others nevertheless who have to rest until some other event pull them together, as in the first resurrection.
All generations before Jesus were waiting to be redeemed, they used to talk about the "Day of the Lord" in the OT, then Jesus came, went down the ground, went up, came back and took many, including the disciples which together with the prophets were to judge over Israel. Judgement that I think took place in about a 1000 years, after destruction of the Temple until the Holocaust.
So we count they, have been living and reigning with Jesus somewhere else.
In Jesus we entered the spiritual plane, were he is the high priest, so I believe we are in the last hour. where the great whore and the beast will be judged, the devil has not much time and he wants to cause the total destruction before.
2007-09-13 10:42:41 · answer #2 · answered by Davinci22 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Zero. But then, how many times is the word "trinity" mentioned in the Bible? What about "rapture"? What about the word "Bible" itself? None of those exact words are found in the Bible, but Christians do have very detailed doctrines employing those words, and those doctrines often consist of premises derived from the Bible.
Regarding purgatory, I would invite you to read up on the doctrine. Basically, it is a doctrine which holds that, after death, but before the general resurrection, some persons will be in a state which is neither heaven nor hell, and in which sins can be forgiven during that period (i.e. a state of purgation). This is hinted at in several parts of the Bible.
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TO FIREBALL: The verses that many proponents of Purgatory like to employ are 2 Maccabees 12:44 side by side with 1 Corinthians 15:29 (but the books of Maccabees have not been in Protestant Bibles since the 1800s). Other popular verses include Matthew 12:32, which gives the strong impression that certain sins might be forgiven after death, or 1 Peter 3:18-20, which makes a reference to Jesus, after being put to death, preaching to men in "prison" who were killed during the flood in the time of Noah, or even passages such as 1 Corinthians 3:11-15, Mark 9:49, Jude 1:20-23, and Hebrews 12:6, which speak of our work being refined by fire, all men being salted with fire, men being snatched out of the fire, and all God's children being scourged. Add it all up, and you get very close to a doctrine of the purgation of believers between death and the resurrection. In short, we get Biblical support for the doctrine of Purgatory.
TO CJ: Are you claiming that whether or not one is saved depends on whether they believe in purgatory or not? How do you define who is and is not a "saved Christian"? Based on whether they have the same understanding of the Bible as is found in your own private interpretations?
TO DAUGHTER: Purgatory is an official doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church, so, yes, they still do teach it.
2007-09-13 09:59:42 · answer #3 · answered by Sayid Abu Khamr al-MaseeHee 2 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Catholics believe in purgatory. I was a Catholic who didn't understand the concept until I became a Gnostic Christian. After intimately uniting with God, I now understand the concept, and know there is truth to it. You will not enter the Kingdom of God unless you are perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect. Purgatory exists so that you have eternal life, but if your soul is stained, you must undergo purification before you can enter. This is the basis of purgatory.
The Trinity is not a Biblical concept either, but its believed in isn't it?
2007-09-13 10:10:55 · answer #4 · answered by Christine S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None. And nor is "rapture". These words, and the ideas behind them, are simply later "accretions" to Christianity and are not part of what Jesus taught.
2007-09-13 10:34:59 · answer #5 · answered by Martin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably as many times as Trinity and Bible...
2007-09-13 10:04:26 · answer #6 · answered by SpiritRoaming 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It isn't. In order to come up with this concept, the scripture was added to and twisted. In order for it to become Church Doctrine, there must be two or three verses confirming this, and there isn't!
2007-09-13 09:58:47 · answer #7 · answered by michael m 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
...in the Tanakh (the Old Testament) and the B'rit Hadashah (the New Testament) from the Greek lexicon and the Hebrew text..."none"... it is a "religiously invented" word and place "spun-up" by the Roman Church in an attempt to keep it's followers in "religious bondage"... over the centuries it has brought the Roman Church a lot of "money" as "they" have had their followers "pay" for souls to get out of jail, free, I mean, get out of "purgatory" for a price, paid to the Roman Church (Catholic Church)... it's totally un-Scriptural....
2007-09-13 10:00:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
The same amount of times NASA is.
2007-09-13 09:59:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
More to the point how many times does is mention evolution ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMB5L0VoszI&mode=related&search=
2007-09-13 09:59:27 · answer #10 · answered by Axiom 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋