A Catholic art depicting non existing purgatory
What is purgatory in the Catholic Encyclopedia?
1. Catcholic Doctrine -Purgatory (Lat.purgare,to make clean ,to purify)"vol.12, p.575 "According to the teaching of the Church ,the state ,place,or condition in the next world ,which will continue until the last judgement, where the soul of those who die i the state of Grace ,but not yet free from all imperfection,make expiation for unforgiven venial sins or for temporal punishment due to venial and moral sins that have already been forgiven and ,by so doing are purified before they enter heaven."(New Catcholic Encyclopedia,vol.11,p.1034)
PROOF #1: Isaiah 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. 6:6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 6:7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
MY REFUTATION: Is this purgatory? Well read the verses above and it is not purgatory but a vision of heaven:
Isaiah 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 6:2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. 6:4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
PROOF#2: Zechariah 13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
The dead are not the ones mentioned in these verses but the believers. we must know that the dead cannot do any work on the grave where they will go (read Ecclesiastes 9:10)
To understand this verses, Pls. read 1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
PROOF#3: Matthew 5:26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
MY REFUTATION: Are they (Catholic defenders) saying that you need to pay cash in order for a man's soul to be removed in purgatory? Does this mean that God can be bribed to save a man's soul? Is this true Biblically?
Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
Proverbs 6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. 6:35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
Why did our Lord Jesus Christ said this thing on the said verse?
Matthew 5:25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
MY REFUTATION: The fire mentioned in the verses above is not literal but spiritual. the fire symbolizes the test of faith
1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
And it is works and not dead believers will be put to that spiritual fire. HOW CAN A LITERAL FIRE BURN MENS' WORK?
and it is clear that the dead dont do any work (read Ecclesiastes 9:10)
so the works of the people mentioned in the verses of 1 Corinthians Chapter 3:12-15 are the works of the living and not of the dead.
That spiritual fire OR THE TEST OF FAITH will test those works whose people laid their foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble upon the foundation of Christians which is Christ.
The works are compared to gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble.
PROOF#5: 1 Peter 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
MY REFUTATION: The spirit of prisons mentioned in the Bible is not purgatory but a prison of rebelled angels who married the daughters of men in this world as mentioned in Genesis Chapter 6.
Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
It is clear that the spirit who makes live the human body will be in God's hand while the body will become dust (read Ecclesiastes 12:6)
Then it will be joined together by God with the bones as mentioned in Ezekiel 37:4-6 read it
Then Jesus Christ said that the dead who will be resurrected will either obtain eternal life or damnation each of them (read John 5:28-29)
CONCLUSION: There is no such thing as purgatory
1) Its word cannot be found in the Bible while you can find the words hell and heaven itself in the Bible.
2) It is clear that Apostle Paul taught that AFTER DEATH IS JUDGMENT (Hebrews 9:27 read it) so there is no detour for the souls of the dead.
3) Jesus Christ said that all dead souls will be resurrected and each of them will either have an eternal life or eternal damnation
John 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 5:29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
4) God taught us to clean ourselves from iniquities when we are still alive in this mortal and temporal world.
1 John 3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. (SO NO NEED FOR PURGATORY AFTER DEATH)
Isaiah 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
5) There is no purgatory until the last judgment. what the dead will wait is the Judgment Day
Hebrews 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
6) No man can tell what shall be after him after death.
Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
you don't even know if one of your dead loved ones you have been asking to a priest to set a mass to pray for him and also paid in it in order to be released from that so called purgatory was soon or later been released from that place and went to paradise. how can you sure that he is still today in that place? what if he really never went in that place and instead went to hell or heaven?
you are just wasting your money in it in a hope that your loved one will be released from that non existing place that you dont even know when it will happen or perhaps maybe he never really went to that place. believing in purgatory is also part mentioned in the Bible that setting your eyes upon that which is not (read Proverbs 23:5)
I believe purgatory was invented so that the Catholic Church assures to get a lot of money from its followers in order for the dioceses and archdioceses to obtain more profit from it.
7) Purgatory was invented by a certain "MARCION" during the Second Century A.D. and it was accepted as offical doctrine in year 593 A.D. by Pope Gregory I and it was adopted in the Council of Florence the Council of Florence (Mansi, t. XXXI, col. 1031),and on Council of Trent in year 1548.
But Apostle Paul taught the Christians not to accept the people who teach other gospel other than what was preached by the apostles and should be ACCURSED.
Galatians 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Meaning what we should believe are the teachings only of the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ that can be read today in the Bible.
8) It is clear that the dead on the graves will not do any work . so cleansing themselves on their sins on a non existing purgatory is not true (read Ecclesiastes 9:10)
LAST: All men even the righteous sinned (read Ecclesiastes 7:20)
But if you have love which is the fulfillment of the law (read Romans 13:10)
you dont need purgatory it is because love covers all sins (read Proverbs 10:12)
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