[Salvation]

**The practice of praying for the dead actually predates Christianity. In 2 Maccabees 12: 41-45, Judas offers prayers and sacrifices for his fallen comrades to make “atonement for the dead that they might be absolved from their sin.” **

My priest made this comment this morning:
If people are in hell, the prayers won’t do any good.
If people are in heaven, the people don’t need our prayers.
So, in the early church, they realized that there was somewhere in between — and so they prayed for the dead.

We call that “in between” situation “Purgatory” where souls who didn’t do the reparation for sins committed on earth will do their reparation.

It’s like writing a “I’m sorry” note to someone you hurt, but never did do it. So when you die you make up for that earthly negligence in Purgatory.

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We call that “in between” situation “Purgatory” where souls who didn’t do the reparation for sins committed on earth will do their reparation.

Even having fallen asleep in Christ, you feel more needs to be done still.

RCC teaching...I know. But not to be found in the New Testament.

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It’s like writing a “I’m sorry” note to someone you hurt, but never did do it. So when you die you make up for that earthly negligence in Purgatory.

No. The believer in Christ is hidden in Christ (living or asleep) Who is in and with the Father in Heaven and has sent the Holy Spirit to seal and indwell believers in Lord Jesus Christ and to prompt us how to walk gracefully as did Jesus.

That is true communion and a Christian's ultimate spiritual desirability.

Remembering Jesus and what He suffered (body broken, blood shed) for our sakes, as often as we choose when we come together in His Name, is an observance Jesus has asked us to do. Christians are pleased to do this observance in an orderly manner.