This is both stupid and demonic. There is no such place as purgatory and those who died without Christ are doomed to eternal torment for all eternity.
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Some people didn't like the idea of relatively good people being tortured for all eternity without the hope of ever being forgiven.
So they invented the idea of a more limited punishment, a chance to burn off some critical sins and then a Loving God could let them into Heaven.
It's less hateful and vindictive than a straight Heaven/Hell split. Nothing demonic about it, just compassionate humans who found the standing religious outlook to be distasteful.
But, hey, if you have absolutely no compassion in you, except for those who believe as you do, it may make more sense to hope that everyone who ever disagreed with you burns until the end of all eternity.
I believe that some will go through eternal torment, but only for part of eternity; while others may have to go through just a few years of eternal torment but for all eternity.
Yes, Doug Bristow,there are some who will be doomed to eternal torment for all eternity.
Poor bastards.
"Stupid" is making stuffy, preachy pronouncements based on nothing but the tenets of your own particular flavor of religion without having EVER established the existence of "hell", "purgatory", or "demons". But I'll bet you feel much better now, having put all other Christians in their place, huh?
There is no such place as purgatory
Well, according to the oldest myth within the myth called Christianity, the Holy Roman Catholic Church, purgatory does exist. So there.
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Keep telling yourself that, dingbat! I don't believe in hell, and I don't believe in purgatory, except for the tree that grows @ Purga Creek.
You however, Bristow, live in Hell on Earth for all of your finite life span.
Up to not so many years ago, Limbo was part & parcel of Catholic doctrine: unquestionable. Then since, it was declared to be nothing more than a mere theological concept.
As your BuyBull is based on the one they codified - and what that is based on uses the mistranslation of the Hebrew word Sheol - I guess that it's not just Purgatory that doesn't exist.
@Anon-E-Moose
To be technical, Sheol (one of the words that was translated to "Hell" - also "The Grave") isn't described like the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory; it was a place where EVERYONE went but not of torment or paradise, but described as a place of darkness, silence and rest.
Although there's early beliefs of the "Hell" doctrine that some attribute to being the source of the Purgatory doctrine over time. It's part of why Universalism was part of the early church.
@CC
While I was talking about Hell, I forgot to include that, so what I said could create confusion, I guess.
My bad. :P
Doug Bristow came up to me. He said,"How come you put superglue on my Bible ???"
I said,"You just can't let it go, can you?"
I have to agree with him, there's nothing in the bible that speaks of a place called Purgatory. Of course I think that it's all mythology anyway, so arguing over purgatory is about as useful as arguing over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
And, of course, I find absolutely distasteful anyone who relishes the idea of eternal torture for people who don't agree with them. Or the idea of eternal torture for anything, really. Even Hitler would have paid for his sins after 100,000,000,000,000,000 centuries.
After blowing through the Inferno, I was eager to see what comes after "stars."
I got maybe 20 pages into Purgatorio before giving up. So boring. I hope the manga is better.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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