Or will they EVEN find themselves there???
2007-10-23 04:00:51 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Purgatory is not Biblical. It was invented by the Catholics.
2007-10-23 04:04:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 2⤋
Aren't heretics sent to Hell?
By the way -- those who say that the justification for Purgatory is not in the Bible are wrong. It is. However, it is in the portions of the Bible that Protestants threw out. In the 1500s, several books that have been part of the Catholic Bible were discarded by Protestants who did not believe them to be the holy word of God.
2007-10-23 11:05:05 · answer #2 · answered by Ranto 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
No.....I'll be spending eternity with the King....not wasting time in a make believe purgatory.
2007-10-23 11:03:23 · answer #3 · answered by LJ4Bama 4 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Yes, they will.
To everyone else:
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.
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.
The Catholic Church defines purgatory as a "purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven," which is experienced by those "who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified" (CCC 1030). It notes that "this final purification of the elect . . . is entirely different from the punishment of the damned" (CCC 1031).
The purification is necessary because, as 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.
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http://www.catholic.com/library/Purgatory.asp
2007-10-23 11:04:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
If they make it to Purgatory it will only be because the Catholics recommended saving them.---Just like the Queen of the South stands up to judge some so will Jesus refer them to us or does it not say "Don't you know you will judge nations?"
They are to be pitied because they have no notion of what the Body of Christ means.
2007-10-23 11:05:46 · answer #5 · answered by Midge 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
There is no such thing as purtagory. It isn't in the Bible.
Catholics are not saved and are not Christians. Catholics believe a false gospel of works that leads to eternal hell (Galatians 1).
2007-10-23 11:03:37 · answer #6 · answered by Chris 4 · 5⤊ 4⤋
I don't believe in purgatory.
You don't know what will happen. Neither do I. Neither does anyone else.
I love God. I believe in Jesus's dying for my sins.
I believe I am going to Heaven.
I live a good life because I want to and because I want to emulate Jesus.
MY CHOICE.
Live and let live. Why does it matter to you?
2007-10-23 11:04:11 · answer #7 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
No, dear one, because there is no such thing. If there was, God's Word would have told us.
Jesus said, "I go to prepare a place for you. If it were not so, I would have told you."
God bless!
2007-10-23 11:03:34 · answer #8 · answered by Devoted1 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Nope, those people live on denial even in death.
2007-10-23 11:03:34 · answer #9 · answered by neshama 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Sorry but....
There is NO purgatory....
It's either heaven or hell when we die.....
And I'm going to heaven with Christ!!
2007-10-23 11:03:11 · answer #10 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 9⤊ 3⤋