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Limbo is still theological speculation and Purgatory is Church Doctrine and as a result will never change. There is a common Protestant misunderstanding of purgatory. At least one protestant minister, John Wesley, spoke of perfectionism in this life,
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A. Purgatory is a Catholic belief, and is a place one goes to purge away sins before Heaven. It is not necessarily eternal, like Hell. A person might stay a very long time or short time, depending on the degree of their sins.
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Is the idea of Purgatory only an invention of the Catholic Church? How about mortal and venial sins?
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Everything expoused by the catholic church is an invention. Purgatory, venial and mortal sins are man-made and fallible. It is a disgusting religion that allowed child abuse, condoned child abuse and hid child abuse. Why any rational, intelligent
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Orthodoxy, the various "Old Catholic" denominations, and Anglo-Catholicism all hold to the reality of Purgatory -- meaning a state after death in which one's sins are purged and soul purified through passive suffering. Also, in Buddhism, what they
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This objection is based on a pair of erroneous presumptions: That progressive sanctification and suffering take away from Christs work on Calvary and that the Church teaches that purgatory is work. To address the second objection first, purgatory
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Some Anglican groups believe in Purgatory. Other Christian groups have ideas similar to Purgatory. Purgatory is a spiritual inheritance from Judaism. As found on Jewish Encyclopedia.com... "as in the teaching of the Shammaites: "In the last
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Roman Catholicism does not teach that Purgatory is a second chance at salvation. Purgatory is a place where those who are saved go to suffer temporarily. Those in Purgatory died in the state of grace, but may have some unrepented venial sins or may
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Purgatory is not taught in the Scriptures. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that most believers need purification before they are fit to enter heaven. All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of
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Through the communion of saints, the blessed in heaven can help the souls in purgatory and the faithful on earth by praying for them. It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.
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According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Purgatory is “a place or condition of temporal punishment for those who, departing this life in God's grace, are, not entirely free from venial faults, or have not fully paid the satisfaction due to their
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