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Question

Few Christians believe there is no eternal life. One denomination which does not believe in eternal life is the Jehovah's Witnesses. Another denomination which believes somewhat differently from Protestants in eternal life is the Roman Catholic Church. Catholics believe the human soul goes to heaven, hell, or purgatory. To Catholics, people in purgatory suffer as if they were in hell. However, once their sins are forgiven, they go to heaven. Furthermore, people on the street say there are no such places as heaven and hell and think religion is a "myth." Do people really go to paradise or hell after death? Eternal life exists because in the Apostles' Creed, God "judges the quick and the dead." Hence, all people ascend to paradise by angels or descend to hell by ferocious demons.

Answer 1

The paragraph is incorrect as written; the phrase "eternal life" should be replaced by "immortality of the soul" and even then the paragraph can only be understood as representing Catholic theology rather than biblical truth.

The terms "eternal life" and "immortality of the soul" are certainly not synonymous. Jehovah's Witnesses certain DO believe in eternal life, but believe the bible to teach that immortality is a special gift which is not given to every human or angel.

So what does the bible teach about "the soul"?

A "soul" is a life, with no implication regarding some immortal otherwordly entity. Each deceased life is in Jehovah God's remembrance (with the potential for future resurrection), but the dead do not exist anywhere but memories until and unless the life is resurrected.

(Ezekiel 18:4) The soul that is sinning - it itself will die.

(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all

(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]

(Genesis 2:17) But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.”

(Genesis 17:14) And an uncircumcised male who will not get the flesh of his foreskin circumcised, even that soul must be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”

(Judges 16:30) And Samson proceeded to say: “Let my soul die with the Philistines.” Then he bent himself with power, and the house went falling upon the axis lords and upon all the people that were in it, so that the dead that he put to death in his own death came to be more than those he had put to death during his lifetime.

(Job 33:22) And his soul draws near to the pit, And his life to those inflicting death.

(Psalm 78:50) He did not hold back their soul from death itself; And their life he handed over even to the pestilence.

(Isaiah 53:12) he poured out his soul to the very death

(Acts 3:23) Indeed, any soul that does not listen to that Prophet will be completely destroyed from among the people.’

(Revelation 16:3) And the second one poured out his bowl into the sea. And it became blood as of a dead man, and every living soul died, yes, the things in the sea.

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Answer 2

Few Christians believe that there is no eternal life. One of denominations of Christianity which does not believe in eternal life is the Jehovah's Witnesses. (Elaborate more on what the J. witnesses' beliefs.) Another Christian denomination which has a different view from the traditional Protestant belief about eternal life is the Roman Catholic Church. Catholics believe the human soul goes to heaven, hell, or purgatory. To Catholics, people in purgatory suffer as if they were in hell. However, once their sins are forgiven, they go to heaven. Furthermore, people on the street say there are no such places as heaven and hell and think religion is a "myth." Do people really go to paradise or hell after death? Eternal life exists because in the Apostles' Creed God "judges the quick and the dead." Hence, all people ascend to paradise by angels or descend to hell by ferocious demons.

- No offense, but please check your facts. This paragraph, editing for content, does not make a good argument or analysis on the topic. It does not hold together.

Answer 3

Purgatory is not Hell minus a few torments and degrees Fahrenheit; it's not Heaven minus joy. It's not a "Third Final Destination" of souls. Purgatory is simply the place where already saved souls are cleansed of the temporal effects of sin before they are allowed to see the holy face of Almighty God. Revelation 21:27 tells us that "...nothing unclean will enter [Heaven]."


It's isn't in the Bible, but neither are the words "Trinity," "abortion," "lesbianism," and "cloning" (or "Rapture," for that matter), and it doesn't matter whether you call the process of purgation "purgatory" or the "Final Theosis": the concept of a "final cleansing" or "purgation" for those who require it is very evident in the Bible, in the writings of the early Church Fathers, and in the Old Testament religion whence Christianity sprang.

Daniel 12:2, Matthew 12:32, 1 Corinthians 3:13-15, 2 Timothy 1:16-18, Hebrews 12:14, Hebrews 12:22-23, 1 Peter 4:6 and Revelation 21:10, 27 all speak of Purgatory in their telling of the need for purification, prayers for the dead, Christ's preaching to the dead, or how nothing unclean will see God.




It takes more than simply knowing Jesus is the Messiah to be saved; even the Evil One knows Who Christ is.

The Bible and the Catholic Church don't separate the "works of faith," preceded and caused by grace, from salvation . You can have all the faith in the world, enough to move mountains, but if you don't have charity, you are nothing.

The Catholic Church and Her Bible condemn the idea that one can work his way to Heaven on his own merit or that God "owes" a person for doing the right things.

All our works get their merit only from Jesus' sacrifice on our behalf. We can do "works" 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for the rest of our lives, but without Christ's grace, they are nothing. Works have no merit in themselves -- and faith without works is not enough. We are saved by grace alone -- a grace that we accept neither "by faith alone" nor "by works alone," but "by faith that works in charity" (Galatians 5:6).

Answer 4

First, go back to basics, you need to get the facts straight. I do wonder why at least 2 IDs are asking this same question.