Please give me a link to infallible Catholic magisterial documents which specifically refute the claims that 1) there is reincarnation; 2) hell is not

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I was interested in near-death experiences (NDEs) and these claims often come up in reading NDE accounts. There is a website called www.near-death.com which collects many NDE accounts and advances the idea of universal salvation, and I don’t know how to refute this, because it appeals to science and brings up many Biblical references (in support of reincarnation).
 
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I was interested in near-death experiences (NDEs) and these claims often come up in reading NDE accounts. There is a website called www.near-death.com which collects many NDE accounts and advances the idea of universal salvation, and I don’t know how to refute this, because it appeals to science and brings up many Biblical references (in support of reincarnation).
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Google the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Most anything you want to know is there. It’s heavily immersed in Scripture.
 
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I was interested in near-death experiences (NDEs) and these claims often come up in reading NDE accounts. There is a website called www.near-death.com which collects many NDE accounts and advances the idea of universal salvation, and I don’t know how to refute this, because it appeals to science and brings up many Biblical references (in support of reincarnation).
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Why just magisterial documents? For the first one, St Paul himself says “it is appointed to man to die ONCE” (Hebrews 9:27) - dead set against reincarnation! Why would Our Lord or anyone bother raising people from the dead, or Him raise Himself from the dead, if reincarnation were a thing?

As for hell not being eternal - Mark 9:48 “Hell, where the worm never dies and the fire is not quenched”. Straight from Our Lord’s mouth.
 
And as for the fate of the devil and the damned:
‘and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Then I saw a great white throne and him who sat upon it; from his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire; and if any one’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.’ - Rev 20:10-15
 
Is there such a thing as an infallible magrsterial document? Popes have the benefit of infallibility. I’m not sure that it extends to the Magesterium.
 

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The Catholic Church teaches infallibly, “extra ecclesiam nulla salus,” or, “outside the Church there is no salvation.” But as with all dogmas of the Faith, this has to be qualified and understood properly. The Catechism of the Catholic Church lays out the truth of the matter succinctly in...
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The Catholic Church teaches infallibly, “ extra ecclesiam nulla salus ,” or, “outside the Church there is no salvation.” But as with all dogmas of the Faith, this has to be qualified and understood properly. The Catechism of the Catholic Church lays out the truth of the matter succinctly in paragraphs 846-848 , but I would recommend backing up to CCC 830 for a context that will help in understanding these three essential points concerning this teaching:

1. There is no salvation apart from Christ and his One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. Again, this is an infallible teaching and not up for debate among Catholics.

2. Those who are “invincibly” ignorant concerning the truth of #1 above will not be culpable for this lack of knowledge before God.

3. Those in the category of #2 have the real possibility of salvation even if they never come to an explicit knowledge of Christ and/or his Church.
 
The reason I requested magisterial documents is to see how the Church had interpreted the relevant Biblical passages (like Hebrews 9:27, Mark 9:48, Revelation 20:10-15 or Matthew 25:46) throughout Church history, because an alternative interpretation/explanation which is well backed up can easily destroy credibility in the traditional interpretation. For example, in the article “The Salvation Conspiracy: How Hell Became Eternal” (https://www.near-death.com/religion...ation-conspiracy-how-hell-became-eternal.html), it is written that in the Greek language aion means ‘an indefinite period of time, usually of long duration’, and in the first centuries most Christians were Universalists, and the belief in the eternality of hell started spreading when the Greek aion was translated for the Latin aeternam which means ‘eternal’. And this homepage gives an alternative interpretation to Hebrews 9:27 too which upholds reincarnation but denies resurrection:

“A verse in Hebrews 9:27-28 is often used to refute reincarnation; but instead refutes the traditional concept of resurrection that “people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.” This verse has historically been interpreted to mean people die only once, then they rest in peace in Abraham’s bosom until the body is resurrected at the end times to face judgment. But this verse simply declares a “one life, one death, one judgment” principle which doesn’t refute reincarnation. According to reincarnation, a person’s body dies once, never to be inhabited again. Then the spirit immediately faces judgment. Later, if a person chooses to reincarnate, a different body having a different life is subjected to a different death and judgment. Therefore, reincarnation upholds the principle of “one life, one death, one judgment.” But this verse in Hebrews 9 does not, in fact, support corpse resurrection. Corpse resurrection is the reanimation of a dead body, which happened to Lazarus and many other people in the Bible. All such people experienced death not once, but twice, violating the “one life, one death, one judgment” principle. Corpse resurrection also contradicts the doctrine of the “second death” mentioned in the Bible. And this verse in Hebrews implies judgment occurs immediately after death which also refutes the idea of resting in peace until an end time corpse resurrection Judgment Day.”

That’s why I would like to see in magisterial documents how the relevant Biblical passages have been interpreted by the Church.
 
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