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Hisalone
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You guys need to stop twisting scripture to suit your false claims.:tsktsk:
you need to read previous answers by other members explaining purgatory…
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BryanM27
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1.) I don’t knowthat is a nice reply
I have three more DOUBTS.
- Will saints go directly to heaven after death?
- What type of people will go to purgatory?
- Will people who dont fit to the above two categories go to hell?
2.) Everyone who has faith, but needs a final purification will go to purgatory. Basically if you have sins in your life that require some kind of punishment, you will receive that punishment before you go to Heaven (God is infinitely just).
3.) Some yes, others no. The Church teaches that because all human beings are created by God, he desires all of us to be saved. The best way is through the Catholic Church, which he established. This is not the only way. If someone is not given the gift of understanding in this life to allow them to see the right path, but they have lived a life of strong faith in some other way (Hindu, Buddhist, Islam, etc.) they may still be saved.
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Church_Militant
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This might help some. It’s an article that I wrote on Purgatory for my blog.
Biblical and Jewish Traditional Beliefs About Purgatory
Biblical and Jewish Traditional Beliefs About Purgatory
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rinnie
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Okay number 1 I can answer for sure for you. Yes no doubt in my mind. Saints go directly to heaven. Thats in the bible to be a saint is to be perfected in Christ. (To be Christlike without sin.)
I have three more DOUBTS.
- Will saints go directly to heaven after death?
- What type of people will go to purgatory?
- Will people who dont fit to the above two categories go to hell?
Number 2. Who goes to purgatory, Anyone who does not die in mortal sin, but still needs that final cleansing. But anyone who is deemed fit by Christ but needs that final time to become perfected in Christ.
Number 3 Yes. If you die in mortal sin you are separated from Christ and you will not enter purgatory nor heaven. You deny Christ and its over for you. You made your choice. Hope that helps
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Soutane
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Thanks so much for that simple and most likely accurate description of the working and function of purgatory and how it fits into the Sacramentality of the Church,Christ’s Divine gift to us.I will relate your analogy to my son which I’m sure will give him a clearer understanding of the wonderful gift of purgatorial cleansing and how it is not to be feared but embraced.I thought of a great analogy for purgatory the other day.
Picture yourself working in the havardous viruses lab at a research facility. Before you enter the chamber filled with deadly diseases, you put on a specially designed suit and step into an antechamber where you are quickly sprayed with water to make sure you bring nothing in and to help limit what can come out. That first part is a weak analogy for baptism and putting on the armor of God.
When you then exit the experimental chamber, you are sprayed down even more thoroughly and any remnants of the viruses you were studying are washed away. Consider those viruses as being sin, and the water is purgatory. We are washed free of the “bugs” we have gathered in our life so that we may peacefully enter heaven 100% pure and clean.
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BryanM27
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I’m glad people like it. It really just came to me a couple days ago during another debate. I know that it’s an over-simplified analogy, but sometimes I think that’s exactly what the situation calls form. I wish you the best of luck in helping your son to understand the mysteries of our great Church.Thanks so much for that simple and most likely accurate description of the working and function of purgatory and how it fits into the Sacramentality of the Church,Christ’s Divine gift to us.I will relate your analogy to my son which I’m sure will give him a clearer understanding of the wonderful gift of purgatorial cleansing and how it is not to be feared but embraced.
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elgar
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Just curious, does the Eastern Orthodox Church subscribe to the Doctrine of Purgatory?
The_Reginator
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In the back of my old Anglican Book of Common Prayer I find Martin Luther’s 39 Articles of Religion.
As an Anglican I always loved number XXII:
As an Anglican I always loved number XXII:
I found the line “rather repugnant to the Word of God” quite entertaining at the time.
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