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Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by amaralizzy40y: 8:00am On Nov 07, 2013
Sal C: And the bible also told us how peter, paul, james and co died.
my dear i can't cm and drag wif u ova a dead man. d rich man is stil in hel fire til 2day take it or live it.
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by adsonstone: 8:07am On Nov 07, 2013
italo:

They are different.

Paul never had a Church.

Paul worked with Christ's established Church.

Kumuyi is on his own. Nobody sent him any message and he reports to no one.

He's just a CEO running a business.

who does your pope report to?
Tell me.
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by amaralizzy40y: 8:22am On Nov 07, 2013
italo:

I will if you show me where the Bible says Kumuyi is a "pastor."

Or do you want me to just follow Deeper Life Church tradition?
if u no longer knw wht to say 2 defend ur purgatory u keep quite n stp divertin 2 cover up.

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Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by adsonstone: 8:25am On Nov 07, 2013
adsonstone:
1. They have 3more deuterocanonical books than you do. (worthy of note, they were part of the catholic church in the 4th century you claim you compiled the bible....how come you have two different books in one church?)

2. They disagree with your concept of papal infalibility.
3. Baptism by sprinkling is not left out of things they disbelieve in. Infact, they do their infant baptism by imersion.
4. Infant communion.
5. They allow priests to marry (i wonder where you guys learnt that priests shouldnt marry and made it a 'law' in your church).
6. They reject (your concept of) the topic of this thread- purgatory!

chukwudi44:

1.the father is GOD
2.The son is GOD
3.tHE Spirit is GOD
4.ALL three are one GOD
5.Jesus died for our Salvation
6.Jesus rose on the third day
7.Mary remained a perpertual virgin
8.Beleif in the validity of infact baptism
9.Prayers for the dead
10.Veneration of saints
11.Use of Images
12.Beleif on the sacraments
13.Beleif on the docrine of apostolic succession
14.Beleif in the validity of the deutoroncanonms
15.Belief in the validity of scriture + sacred tradition
16.Beleiof in the writings of the early chruch fathers
17.Beleif on the ecumenical councils before the schism

........ETC

Those are the points we both brought side by side.

I have 6, you have 17 and you claim its 99.9999:0.0001 #OLODO.
You dont even know simple maths!
What a shame.


Others can help judge if its 99.9999:0.0001 as you claim because it seem you persist in telling lies.
Liar!

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Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by HolyHolla(m): 8:26am On Nov 07, 2013
amara.lizzy%40y:
if u no longer knw wht to say 2 defend ur purgatory u keep quite n stp divertin 2 cover up.

Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by sixone: 8:26am On Nov 07, 2013
amara.lizzy%40y:
if u no longer knw wht to say 2 defend ur purgatory u keep quite n stp divertin 2 cover up.

The kid is so confused. grin
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by SalC: 8:32am On Nov 07, 2013
amara.lizzy%40y:
my dear i can't cm and drag wif u ova a dead man. d rich man is stil in hel fire til 2day take it or live it.
How does this answer my question? Am equally not interested in dragging anything but don't expect me to swallow your word hook line and sinker. If you have no answer to my question, you can do well not to quote me again.
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by SalC: 8:38am On Nov 07, 2013
adsonstone: Now, to explain the 'assumed purgatory' concept, catholics (eg Sal C) have changed the words of even our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus said the rich man was in hell, catholics say its Purgatory.
How pathethic. Smh
Before you conclude, you can help kingk answer the question I asked him since yesterday.
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by amaralizzy40y: 8:45am On Nov 07, 2013
[quote
author=Sal C]How does this answer my question? Am equally not
interested in dragging anything but don't expect me to swallow your word
hook line and sinker. If you have no answer to my question, you can do
well not to quote me again.[/quote]y won't i quote u, wen u were d one dat quoted me first. did u c italo deny wht he says abt d rich man yet ur hear takn his para. i believ u guys dn't knw any oda tin 2 say dan going roundabout arguing.
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by Enigma(m): 8:46am On Nov 07, 2013
adsonstone:

If you say the catholic church is the 'true church' by the reason of the sins protestants accuse you of, and the orthodox is 'more guilty' definitely the orthodox must be the 'more true church'.

-They have 3more deuterocanonical books than you do. (worthy of note, they were part of the catholic church in the 4th century you claim you compiled the bible....how come you have two different books in one church?)

-They disagree with your concept of papal infalibility.
- Baptism by sprinkling is not left out of things they disbelieve in. Infact, they do their infant baptism by imersion.
- Infant communion.
- They allow priests to marry (i wonder where you guys learnt that priests shouldnt marry and made it a 'law' in your church).
- Finally, they reject the topic of this thread- purgatory!

Etc

Nice. smiley

I have a similar compilation of things/doctrines that the Eastern Orthodox (aka Orthodox Catholic Church) disagree with the Roman Catholic church denomination about.

And of course you are right, Eastern Orthodox can actually be said to be the true "Catholics" and not so much the Roman Catholic organisation. Roman Catholic is Roman Catholic --- NOT "the Catholic".

Only by wuruwuru mathematics of 5-4=5 (or some other folly) will someone say that the Roman Catholic organisation is "the Catholic Church".

smiley

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Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by adsonstone: 9:03am On Nov 07, 2013
Sal C: Before you conclude, you can help kingk answer the question I asked him since yesterday.

about that one, it has been concluded.
Jesus said Hell, you and the catholic church say purgatory. Will you deny or will you eat your words?

By the way, what did u ask kingk?
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by adsonstone: 9:08am On Nov 07, 2013
Enigma:

Nice. smiley

I have a similar compilation of things/doctrines that the Eastern Orthodox (aka Orthodox Catholic Church) disagree with the Roman Catholic church denomination about.

And of course you are right, Eastern Orthodox can actually be said to be the true "Catholics" and not so much the Roman Catholic organisation. Roman Catholic is Roman Catholic --- NOT "the Catholic".

Only by wuruwuru mathematics of 5-4=5 (or some other folly) will someone say that the Roman Catholic organisation is "the Catholic Church".

smiley

wink
pls, put it down for Chukwudi44 and educate him, he said the roman catholic and orthodox are 99.9999% in doctrinal concordance.
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by ajayikayod: 9:14am On Nov 07, 2013
italo:

Please just tell me where 1Cor3:15 is referring to.

Heaven or hell.

Jehovah's Witness JMAN05 even says it is earth.

I have answered one million questions on this thread already.

People hardly answer mine.

Mr, d bible is not a yes or no letters. U study to know. I gave u an option for us to study all u do is give me a yes or no. Bad students do dt.

If u put in better effort to study d pretext u will kno it refered to all believers building (service to God) to be tested by fire. Dt includes Paul, Mary, Popes, u etc.

From ur claim on purgatory as d location of d fire trial, dt means Paul, Mary (ur beloved mother Mary), Ur Popes hav all been to d purgatory. If i draw further on ur believe dt d purgatory is meant to clean some sins. That means Paul, Mary, Popes hav all suffered thr becos definately no one is absolutely righteous (pure) in obeying d law.

U better be ready too because u mit burn hard.

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Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by italo: 9:18am On Nov 07, 2013
adsonstone:

Paul did not state that.

Oh yeah? Maybe it was the infallible Kumuyi that wrote this then:

1Cor 15:29 - Otherwise what shall they do that are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not again at all? why are they then baptized for them?

adsonstone:
Though, we can reason and draw likely locations they can be (which may not be the exact).

By "reason" you mean the Nigerian street parlance which could mean "manipulate and twist to our favour." Right?

That's it up there, go ahead and twist it as usual.
adsonstone:
Before we start that reasoning, I'll like you to answer this.

Where exactly is Abraham's bosom?
Is it heaven, or is it also in hell or maybe a place on its own?

Shouldn't you answer where the dead in the verse are before you ask me more questions?
adsonstone:
Yes, people feel compassion in hell.

Reason: Jesus said the rich man was in hell....and we know he felt remorse and compassion.
Or do you want me to change what Jesus said?

The Greek word "hades" that was used in that passage doesn't just mean a place of eternal torment.

Hades is the standard translation for Sheol in the Septuagint, Josephus, Philo of Alexandria, and other Jewish works written in Greek.

Like other first-century Jews literate in Greek, early Christians used the Greek word Hades to translate the Hebrew word Sheol. Thus, in Acts 2:27, the Hebrew phrase in Psalm 16:10 appears in the form: "you will not abandon my soul to Hades." (this statement wouldnt make sense if hades were eternal). Death and Hades are repeatedly associated in the Book of Revelation.[36]

The New Testament uses the Greek word Hades to refer to the abode of the dead, a shadowlike existence forgotten by the living (e.g., Acts 2:31; Revelation 20:13).[37] Only[b] one passage describes hades as a place of torment, the story of Lazarus and Dives.[/b][Luke 16:19-31] Here, Jesus depicts a wicked man suffering fiery torment in hades, which is contrasted with the bosom of Abraham, and explains that it is impossible to cross over from one location to the other. Some scholars believe that this parable reflects the intertestamental Jewish view of hades (or sheol) as containing separate divisions for the wicked and righteous.[37][38] In Revelation 20:13-14 hades is itself thrown into the "lake of fire" after being emptied of the dead.

In Latin, Hades could be translated as Purgatorium (Purgatory in English use) after about 1200 A.D.,[39] but no modern English translations relates Hades to Purgatory. as 3 B

Like other first-century Jews literate in Greek, early Christians used the Greek word Hades to translate the Hebrew word Sheol. Thus, in Acts 2:27, the Hebrew phrase in Psalm 16:10 appears in the form: "you will not abandon my soul to Hades." Death and Hades are repeatedly associated in the Book of Revelation.[36]

...from Wikipedia
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by Enigma(m): 9:23am On Nov 07, 2013
adsonstone:

wink
pls, put it down for Chukwudi44 and educate him, he said the roman catholic and orthodox are 99.9999% in doctrinal concordance.

Bros, na small small and in little bits the information will be coming out just as it started with your post (and truly, I had listed those things among others).

For now, let me just drop one fom an earlier post; I have chosen this one because of all the lies and misleading statements and "half truths" that the "Catholics" "compiled" the Bible bla bla bla.

From here https://www.nairaland.com/1104124/problem-catholism-an-introspection/21#15206811

http://www.orthodoxanswers.org/answer/39/

Question Number 39:

What is the Old Testament canon of the Orthodox Church? Is the Apocrypha recognized as canonical?


ANSWER:
The Orthodox Old Testament includes both canonical (or protocanonical) books and supplemental books which are not considered canonical (i.e. protocanonical) but deuterocanonical or in Greek Anaginoskomena ("to be read" ).

Deuterocanonical is used here in a sense that is different than the Roman Catholic sense. In Roman Catholic terminology, "deuterocanonical" means approved later but with the same canonical authority. In the Orthodox use, "deuterocanonical" means having secondary authority, but useful and part of the Biblical library (no Orthodox Bible would not contain them). The Scriptures testify to Jesus Christ and since neither Protestants nor Jews recognize these Scriptures, their power to serve as witness is inferior. However, they are read in the Orthodox churches and have great value.

This view is faithful to the position of the earliest Christians (i.e. Justin, Origen) as well as the distinction connected with Athanasius and other important Fathers
.

smiley
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by italo: 9:24am On Nov 07, 2013
ajayikayod:

Mr, d bible is not a yes or no letters. U study to know. I gave u an option for us to study all u do is give me a yes or no. Bad students do dt.

Its the easiest question in the world.

Where is 1 Cor 3:15 talking about...heaven, hell or earth?

Attempting questions is also a vital part of learning.

My teachers often started their lectures with questions - teasers. And I passed my exams.

Answer if you can, then go on to expantiate.

But if you cant answer, dont bother.
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by ajayikayod: 9:29am On Nov 07, 2013
italo:

Its the easiest question in the world.

Where is 1 Cor 3:15 talking about...heaven, hell or earth?

Attempting questions is also a vital part of learning.

My teachers often started their lectures with questions - teasers. And I passed my exams.

Answer if you can, then go on to expantiate.

But if you cant answer, dont bother.

Dt showed in all ur post. But a bad approach to d scripture. Go study bro and stop treating d scripture lik ur school materials, u ll fail excellently.
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by SalC: 9:29am On Nov 07, 2013
adsonstone:

about that one, it has been concluded.
Jesus said Hell, you and the catholic church say purgatory. Will you deny or will you eat your words?

By the way, what did u ask kingk?
I would have repeated the question if Italo has not given the explanation of hell or hades as regards the rich man. Check his explanation and tell me if the hell used there was gotten from the shoel or gehanna, the difference or do you say they are thesame.
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by ajayikayod: 9:31am On Nov 07, 2013
italo:

Its the easiest question in the world.

Where is 1 Cor 3:15 talking about...heaven, hell or earth?

Attempting questions is also a vital part of learning.

My teachers often started their lectures with questions - teasers. And I passed my exams.

Answer if you can, then go on to expantiate.

But if you cant answer, dont bother.

If u put in better effort to study d pretext u will kno it refered to all believers building (service to God) to be tested by fire. Dt includes Paul, Mary, Popes, u etc.

From ur claim on purgatory as d location of d fire trial, dt means Paul, Mary (ur beloved mother Mary), Ur Popes hav all been to d purgatory. If i draw further on ur believe dt d purgatory is meant to clean some sins. That means Paul, Mary, Popes hav all suffered thr becos definately no one is absolutely righteous (pure) in obeying d law.

U better be ready too because u mit burn hard.
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by SalC: 9:37am On Nov 07, 2013
amara.lizzy%40y:
y won't i quote u, wen u were d one dat quoted me first. did u c italo deny wht he says abt d rich man yet ur hear takn his para. i believ u guys dn't knw any oda tin 2 say dan going roundabout arguing.
Dear I don't mind anything from you. If you want us to continue, address my earlier post. Stop concluding without facts just prove yourself or forget it.
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by italo: 9:38am On Nov 07, 2013
adsonstone:

who does your pope report to?
Tell me.


To the Church, even though he is the visible head, Peter.

Kumuyi reports to no one but himself. He is neither Peter nor Paul. He is a false teacher, not of the fold.
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by italo: 9:40am On Nov 07, 2013
adsonstone:

who does your pope report to?
Tell me.


To the Church, even though he is the visible head, Peter.

Kumuyi reports to no one but himself. He is neither Peter nor Paul. He is a false teacher, not of the fold.

He is just the sole-entrepreneur to his business empire.
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by sixone: 10:05am On Nov 07, 2013
italo:


To the Church, even though he is the visible head, Peter.

Kumuyi reports to no one but himself. He is neither Peter nor Paul. He is a false teacher, not of the fold.

He is just the sole-entrepreneur to his business empire.

Which visible head Peter? By what means? Reincarnation? Was peter called father in contrast to what Jesus taught that no religious figure should be called father on earth? Your ignorance is really increasing
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by sixone: 10:06am On Nov 07, 2013
ajayikayod:

If u put in better effort to study d pretext u will kno it refered to all believers building (service to God) to be tested by fire. Dt includes Paul, Mary, Popes, u etc.

From ur claim on purgatory as d location of d fire trial, dt means Paul, Mary (ur beloved mother Mary), Ur Popes hav all been to d purgatory. If i draw further on ur believe dt d purgatory is meant to clean some sins. That means Paul, Mary, Popes hav all suffered thr becos definately no one is absolutely righteous (pure) in obeying d law.

U better be ready too because u mit burn hard.

And why is italo dodging this post? Too complicated for His brain to comprehend?
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by italo: 10:14am On Nov 07, 2013
six one:

Which visible head Peter? By what means? Reincarnation? Was peter called father in contrast to what Jesus taught that no religious figure should be called father on earth? Your ignorance is really increasing

You are the ignorant one, dear.

Matt 23: 9 And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. 10 Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah.

Did you see that? Not just religious figure. ANYONE!

Yet Paul called the Jews "brothers and FATHERS."

Why? Because he was Catholic, not a Protestant that would protest against of things he doesn't understand.

grin

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Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by Enigma(m): 10:14am On Nov 07, 2013
six one:

Which visible head Peter? By what means? Reincarnation? Was peter called father in contrast to what Jesus taught that no religious figure should be called father on earth? Your ignorance is really increasing

Did you not see when the apostle Peter wore a tiara and crowns?

Did you not see the apostle Peter resplendent and living in opulence in The Vatican?

Did you not see the apostle Peter having other "bishops" and "cardinals" kissing his ring and his feet?

Did you not see the apostle Peter wearing his papal robes, clothes, fisherman's rings etc?

Did you not know that the apostle Peter was NOT married?

And so on and so on and on and on .........

smiley
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by italo: 10:16am On Nov 07, 2013
six one:

And why is italo dodging this post? Too complicated for His brain to comprehend?

I am simply awaiting his response to the question I asked since page 1.

It's been ages now and he is yet to answer:

Where is 1Cor3:15 talking about?
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by italo: 10:19am On Nov 07, 2013
ajayikayod:

Dt showed in all ur post. But a bad approach to d scripture. Go study bro and stop treating d scripture lik ur school materials, u ll fail excellently.

If you cannot answer the question, please stop bothering me.
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by Enigma(m): 10:35am On Nov 07, 2013
adsonstone:

they're not different just as Paul's churches are not different from Christ's church. If you cant interprete for yourself, its advisable to go to the Church to be on the safe side

Indeed! All Christians of all ages or eras and everywhere and irrespective of denominations are part of the Church of Christ, they are part of Jesus' Church, and they are part of the Christian Church.

They may not be part of the Roman Catholic church organisation as that is another thing altogether and is indeed irrelevant in the final analysis.

Christians do not need "popes" or denominations and certainly not the Roman Catholic church denomination.

As a leading Roman Catholic who himself nearly became "pope" said:

Per "Cardinal" Baronius

"The chief lesson of these times is that the Church can get along very well without popes. What is vital to the Church's survival is not the pope but Jesus Christ. He is the head of the Church, not the pope."

smiley
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by sixone: 10:35am On Nov 07, 2013
Enigma:

Did you not see when the apostle Peter wore a tiara and crowns?

Did you not see the apostle Peter resplendent and living in opulence in The Vatican?

Did you not see the apostle Peter having other "bishops" and "cardinals" kissing his ring and his feet?

Did you not see the apostle Peter wearing his papal robes, clothes, fisherman's rings etc?

Did you not know that the apostle Peter was NOT married?

And so on and so on and on and on .........

smiley

grin
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by HolyHolla(m): 10:44am On Nov 07, 2013
Let me conclude my contributions to this topic with an excerpt from my 1999 thesis on Mystery Babylon and the Catholic Church.
Origins of the Catholic Purgatory:
The ancient Babylonian concept of a good-evil God informs the idea of Purgatory, which is one of the bedrock doctrines of the Catholic Church. As they claim that every person must suffer for his sins, God, according to the Catholics, has made available both Hell and Paradise for each soul. At death, a soul proceeds directly to Hell (otherwise known as Purgatory by Roman Catholics) and after due sufferings or alternate payments he is released to proceed to Paradise.

The mystery of suffering for expatiation of sin is a deep Catholic doctrine. Penance, the Catholics believe, is also made through individual suffering for sin here on earth to avoid the suffering of Paradise. There are two ways by which Catholics believe that this penance must be self-paid by any individual so as to be acceptable before God. One is to freely make reparation through personal punishments here on earth and the other is to accept such punishment as coming from God's just and holy wisdom.

What is the real origin of this doctrine? Ancient Babylonians believed that their major deity, the Sun god, had two different sides: the beneficent and the destructive. On the one side, he gives light and warmth and on the other he employs fierce heat of the summer to destroy vegetation. It was therefore necessary to sacrifice to him through dedication and burning alive of first-born children. (In very fundamental and conservative traditionally Catholic areas of the world like Ireland today, firstborns are still dedicated to become Catholic priests. These people believe that the sacrificing of their firstborn sons to the Catholic Church would bring their families prosperity.)

The doctrine stems from belief in worship of the Queen of Heaven from ancient Babylonian, who was adapted by Catholic church as the ‘Virgin Mary' and her relationship with the ‘Boy Jesus'. It was first adopted by a certain Roman Cult of Isis, which worshipped a mother goddess with her infant son, Horus. This cult had also been popular in Egypt. It was the importation of this belief into the church that also prompted the imaging of the Mother Mary carrying her little vulnerable son, 'Jesus', in her arms. Have you ever wondered why it is that usually, Jesus is a boy in the arms of Mary and hardly ever pictured in Catholic books as an adult? Could that be the real concept of the Christ that we know from scriptures? Is it not actually meant to put Jesus as an infant at the perpetual favor of His mother?

The origin is in the ancient Babylonian story of Tammuz's infantile death, which resulted in great grief and sorrow to his mother, Semiramis. Tammuz in Babylon was god of vegetation. Variation of the story involving Semiramis and Tammuz later resulted in a story concerning Tammuz and Ishtar (another representation of Semiramis), who were said to be mother and child. The story concerns the descent of Ishtar to Hades (known to Catholics as Purgatory), in pursuit of Tammuz in order to bear him in her arms and bring him back from the world of the dead while the women of Babylonia mourned for the dead Tammuz. This later became a religious practice highlighted and condemned in Ezekiel 8: 14.

Tammuz's death was said to have resulted in so much grief and sorrow to his mother that she ventured to travel into the world of the dead to retrieve him. Ancient Babylonians ascribed the period of disappearance of vegetation to that which the son of Semiramis descended into the under world after death. By weeping for Tammuz, the cult of Babylon believed that vegetation would be restored, as the god would appear once again.

Other evidence of this ritual of mourning for Tammuz in Catholicism is still found in the Corpus Christi, copy of an ancient procession for transubstantiation practiced in the Roman Cult of Isis. It is not surprising that many other religious cults, particularly the secret ones, hold similar doctrines. They refer to Tammuz as the ‘Window's Son', and engage in the practice of weeping, mourning and self immolation to revive him from the land of the dead.

The Roman Catholic Church also practice this through the Mass organized as Stations of the Cross. These rites of Weeping for the Widow's Son, Corpus Christi procession and Stations of the Cross have been modified in several Latin American societies for the purpose of physical penance of beating, piecing, injuring and crucifying of self on the cross to suffer for sin. In a northern village of Cutud, in Philippines Island, hundreds of Filipino Catholics still claim to be having their share in the sufferings of Jesus Christ on each Good Friday by re-enacting the process of suffering of the Savior over two thousand years ago. Annually, many devout Filipino Catholics are crucified to crosses for several minutes, while hundreds of others self-flog their backs to a gory bloody state. Of all Christendom, only Catholics indulge in this practice which negates the Christian doctrine of Christ having paid the full price for the sins of all.

Vatican II Council confirmed the relevance of the practice of self sacrifice in suffering by explaining that amends ought and must be made for every man's sin for restoration to salvation to be possible. This is an outright false doctrine as no man can take part in the redemption work of Christ, which has been completed at Calvary.

Novena is a rite for the dead imported into Catholicism in the Middle Ages by corrupt popes who wanted to make merchandise of religion. Novena was also imbibed from a conjunction of Babylonian cultic belief in expatiating for personal sins and in ultimate divine power being vested on the High Priest to be able to free trapped souls of the dead from their poor state. It is claimed that a man's soul first visits Purgatory on death, and funeral rites release these souls to Paradise. This heresy affirms the existence of a transition place of torment, Purgatory, in which souls that have not merited eternal damnation are to suffer punishment for their sins. After being freed from impurity through such sufferings and monetary devotions of his survivors to the Church, the soul is allowed to proceed to Paradise.

Novena doctrine was further abused by Medieval bishops through demand for payment of Indulgences, in which full remission of sins, past, present or future are procured by payment of cash in exchange for some papers confirming that the pope had forgiven their sins. This practice also stems from the claim of Babylonian cult to have highest power and divine wisdom vested in the High Priests. By this, the Roman Catholic authority filled their coffers with enough resources to sustain the magnificence, luxury and ostentation of the priests.

Offering of incense sacrifices by priests during Mass is also an adaptation of Babylonian appeasement for sins. Nowhere in the New Testament are Christians instructed to offer incense to God.

With such historical exegesis of the doctrine of Purgatory and related payments for sin outside the sacrifice of Jesus, every true Christian must understand that belief in a Purgatory is not only fetish and heretic but also abominable to God.
Re: Please Is There Anything Like Purgatory? by italo: 10:51am On Nov 07, 2013
^^^grin

I will remember you as the one who argued against purgatory, yet agreed that there is purification after death by fire.

Amen! Alleluia!

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