Why do Protestants object to Purgatory?

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the church has been on earth for over two thousand years! We are all christian and on our way to heaven IF we live the commandments. Who cares about the all the rest…
All the he said she said bull… Next thing you know !! We will be talking about and fighting about ! Did the catholic church have an apostosy and the L.D.S. church aka mormons have the restored gospel.
that would make you all wrong…
deffentally the Protestants be cause thay protest the catholic church…👍
 
Sixtus said:
Why do Protestants object to Pergatory when it is a Biblical concept. It was also believed by the Jews of Jesus day.In that snese belief in Purgatory was not created by the CC but inherited from it’s earliest roots of Judaism. There is no evidence that the Lord refuted this teaching. So why do Protestants not accept it?
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1: It is not a biblical concept
2: I have never heard anyone claim that 1st century Judaism taught it. Please provide sources.
3: There is no evidence that the Lord TAUGHT this.
 
LutheranDK said:
1: It is not a biblical concept
2: I have never heard anyone claim that 1st century Judaism taught it. Please provide sources.
3: There is no evidence that the Lord TAUGHT this.
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Actually I found this:

Judaism does believe in “life after death.” We do not call it “heaven and hell”; but we refer to the “world to come” - olam haba and *gehinom *- “hell.” Gehinom - a purification process - is part of the world to come.
When a person dies, his soul gets a chance to ‘think objectively’ about his lifetime spent on earth. Depending on how the person spent his lifetime, this can be a painful process in which the soul mourns its bad deeds, lost opportunities and wasted potential or it can be a process of joy in which the soul delights in its closeness to G-d.
Ultimately, the gehinom process is temporary, and eventually enables the person to enjoy the benefits of all the good things he did during his lifetime.

With which the source cites the following from the Talmud:

Mishna Eduyot 2:10
 
Sixtus said:
Why do Protestants object to Pergatory when it is a Biblical concept. It was also believed by the Jews of Jesus day.In that snese belief in Purgatory was not created by the CC but inherited from it’s earliest roots of Judaism. There is no evidence that the Lord refuted this teaching. So why do Protestants not accept it?
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Your reciprocal logic doesn’t fit here. Jesus didn’t refute it because the premise of it did not exist. Judaism didn’t teach Purgatory as we know it in the Catholic sense today. There is just no Biblical evidence for it. Jesus didn’t teach it and he certainly didn’t tell the guy hanging next to him on Calvary that after he said some hail Marys and Our Fathers and spent some time in Purgatory and had enough people pray for him, that he would eventually wind up in paradise. Purgatory is a hoax.
 
CAS64 said:
Your reciprocal logic doesn’t fit here. Jesus didn’t refute it because the premise of it did not exist. Judaism didn’t teach Purgatory as we know it in the Catholic sense today.
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Those Jews who looked forward to the afterlife certainly believed in a place of purification, where the prayers of the living can aid them, as we see throughout the two Books of Maccabees.

They continue to believe so even today, as we saw at 9-11, with the many Jews who prayed continuously for the souls of those who had died in that tragedy, even risking their own health to make their prayers of intercession at the very site itself.
 
jmcrae said:
Those Jews who looked forward to the afterlife certainly believed in a place of purification, where the prayers of the living can aid them, as we see throughout the two Books of Maccabees.

They continue to believe so even today, as we saw at 9-11, with the many Jews who prayed continuously for the souls of those who had died in that tragedy, even risking their own health to make their prayers of intercession at the very site itself.
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We do not agree of course on Maccabees 1 or 2 being God inspired Scripure, but even if it were it does not spell this out in any manner. Jesus didn’t tell the man next to him on the cross that he would have to be purified of the temporal effects of sin in Purgatory before he could be with him in paradise because his sacrifice wasn’t sufficient to save him directly.
 
JonNC said:
A hoax played on whom to what end?

While I have some serious questions about purgatory, I certainly would not characterize it as a hoax.

Jon
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To the end that it made poor people exhaust what little money they had out of shear fear to help get the souls of their loved ones out and on their way to Heaven. Check out history and see how St. Peter’s Basillica in Rome was funded.
 
CAS64 said:
To the end that it made poor people exhaust what little money they had out of shear fear to help get the souls of their loved ones out and on their way to Heaven. Check out history and see how St. Peter’s Basillica in Rome was funded.
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I see your point. It might also be said that the *abuse *of the belief in purgatory did these things, not the belief itself. That said, what you state here may be the central reason why Luther eventually rejected the teaching.

Jon
 
CAS64 said:
We do not agree of course on Maccabees 1 or 2 being God inspired Scripure, but even if it were it does not spell this out in any manner. Jesus didn’t tell the man next to him on the cross that he would have to be purified of the temporal effects of sin in Purgatory before he could be with him in paradise because his sacrifice wasn’t sufficient to save him directly.
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St. Dismas (the good thief) did not need to go to Purgatory because he was sharing in the Cross of Christ in a more literal manner than anyone else on earth will ever experience - only Mother Mary and St. John shared in that experience, and I don’t think either of them ever experienced Purgatory, either.

The Maccabeans prayed for their dead to be purified of their sins, so as to enter into the glory of God.
 
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