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Hi hoosierdaddy and everyone else reading this,
I said I would post the Scriptural basis of purgatory. Here we go.
The Church teaches that when we die, we are bound for either heaven or hell. Those bound for heaven may need further purification from sin. I like to think of it as further sanctification.
Here is a few quotes from the CCC:
1023 - Those who die in God’s grace and friendship and are perfectly purified live for ever with Christ. They are like God for ever, for they “see him as he is,” face to face.
1030 - All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.
1031 - The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned.
Here are some Scripture passages to back this up:
2 Corinthians 5:6-11
Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. We live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.
What is it that we will “receive” for the bad things done while in the body? And why are we to “fear” this?
Matthew 18:32-35
"Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’ In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed. “This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”
Luke 12:47-48
"That servant who knows his master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be beaten with many blows. But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
Here in these passages, Jesus speaks about “jailers” and being “tortured,” and of being beaten with many or few blows. Is He using hyperbole here, as He does when He says to cut of the hand or pluck out the eye if they offend? If He is, then what is the hyperbolic statements representing?
OK, that is enough for now.
Peace,
Jacobaer
I said I would post the Scriptural basis of purgatory. Here we go.
The Church teaches that when we die, we are bound for either heaven or hell. Those bound for heaven may need further purification from sin. I like to think of it as further sanctification.
Here is a few quotes from the CCC:
1023 - Those who die in God’s grace and friendship and are perfectly purified live for ever with Christ. They are like God for ever, for they “see him as he is,” face to face.
1030 - All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.
1031 - The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned.
Here are some Scripture passages to back this up:
2 Corinthians 5:6-11
Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. We live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.
What is it that we will “receive” for the bad things done while in the body? And why are we to “fear” this?
Matthew 18:32-35
"Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’ In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed. “This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”
Luke 12:47-48
"That servant who knows his master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be beaten with many blows. But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
Here in these passages, Jesus speaks about “jailers” and being “tortured,” and of being beaten with many or few blows. Is He using hyperbole here, as He does when He says to cut of the hand or pluck out the eye if they offend? If He is, then what is the hyperbolic statements representing?
OK, that is enough for now.
Peace,
Jacobaer
