Posted on 02/26/2015 1:41:17 PM PST by RnMomof7
It is a false "hope" offered to the unregenerate , that somehow that can make heaven on their own merits
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Most of the people here, I think, would rather purgawhig or purgasocialist than purgatory.
“Burning off sins” to many is actually a horrifying concept, and not biblical. The Bible talks about Abraham’s Bosom, the place where believers went prior to Jesus ascension. Now, to be absent from the body, is to be present with Christ Jesus! Hell is real, but Jesus paid the price so that no one has to go there!!!
If there is, I’m sure it will involve the reading of endless religion forum debates.
Purgatory is not biblical.
The bible says it’s appointed once for man to die, after that the judgement.
The only way to have our sins forgiven and cleansed is by the blood of Jesus.
Good grief! I'm dead!
I like the title, I like the title.
Didn’t ISIL “purge with fire” that Muslim Jordanian pilot?
So the concept is there for using fire to purge. It’s not just Christian.
“Purgatory” is right here on planet earth. Being extra good this time around so I won’t have to come back again.
I know. It’s a fund raising foundation!
In the 20 period after leaving the Catholic Church, prior to having a real born again experience (a slow motion process that lasted about 6 years), I often speculated that perhaps purgatory is real and we are all experiencing it with what we call “life”.
On some days, that thought returns to me.
As I understand it, the early princes of the church initiated infant baptism so a person would be less likely to die before being baptized, in which case they’d be sent to hell.
It was later decided, though, that since sinning while living post-baptism was worse than sinning before, it was too hard living an entire baptized life without serious sins.
So, baptism was put off until late in life to dilute the effect of sins committed after baptism.
Then they realized that an unbaptized prince could fall off his horse as an adult, hit his head on a rock, and die before a priest could get there to baptize him.
The solution was to invent purgatory. Now, the believer could take out the eternal insurance of infant baptism, live of life of post-baptism sins, and work off the punishment after death but before the devil could take him.
Purgatory is one of those concepts that tells me that the Catholic Church has no idea what scripture really teaches.
With Obama in charge, if it ain’t Purgatory, it’s a very good simulation.
Hebrews 10:8-18 tells us clearly...Grace completely trumps anything to do with purgatory...a catholic manufactured belief...
Jesus said,.. ‘Here I am, I have come to do your will.’ He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ ONCE for all............ by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:
‘This is the covenant I will make with them
after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds.’ Then he adds:
‘Their sins and lawless acts
I will remember no more.’
And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin.”
Because of Jesus we have been forgiven. There is no longer any sacrifice required. ... That is what purgatory is all about – an “additional sacrifice” for venial sins. To say that purgatory is a necessary purification is to deny that the grace of God is sufficient.
1 John 1:9 says,..... “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”
In 2 Corinthians 12:9, Paul said that Christ’s grace was sufficient for him.
Indeed, Christ’s grace is sufficient for us all. Praise God!
LOL
It could be said as well...they have no assurance of salvation or understanding of the completed work of Christ...His death, His burial or His Resurrection. Not to mention the work of His Holy Spirit.
It's not uncommon for many cults to believe much of what Christianity teaches and uses it's verbiage to mask the underlying beliefs that so oppose Jesus and his true teachings. Catholicism does this as well...it's a system designed to retain the priesthood and keep people bound to Rome.
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