Will their church collapse ? Will it be rebuilt with only good guys, like the US ?
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Where did Jesus teach about purgatory? It's not in the Bible.
Where does the Bible say Mary is the queen of heaven? It doesn't.
Really, I don't get your problem with a few traditions in the CC Beliefs are from the Bible and Tradition...not everything was included in the Bible that was written. The council that met to decide on the books to include in the Bible had to pare down the amount of material that had been written since Jesus was on Earth. Translations were not always accurate. Scholars have spent years going thru original writings to find the oldest examples and make good translations so people today can read them. We have no way of knowing what all Jesus taught. No one was taking notes at the time. Stories were passed along orally until they were eventually written dowm.
Actually we have over 5000 manuscripts from the first century.
You may think I hate you, I don't. I'm trying to show you that your traditions will only lead to eternal death. Please use the critical thought and research skills you've learned from Q and educate yourself on the true Gospel in the Bible. Your salvation depends on it. there is no such thing as purgatory and your family can not buy your way into heaven. Please. This is the biggest red pill you can swallow.
I just hope that you can also see that not all Catholics can be lumped into one category. ... I know we don't buy our way to heaven. We are judged on our lives and how true we remain to God. Salvation comes from Baptism and our belief in Jesus resurrection and a life lived on a path to heaven. I don't assume. I know God is love and I try to live by those principles taught to us thru Jesus. Prayers for you and for everyone on the path to understanding.
Do you own a Bible? If not, I would gladly purchase one and send it to you.
It depends on whether you accept Maccabees as Scriptural whether you deem belief in purgatory to be Biblical.
It's not.
It seems to be one of the main points of contention that make it difficult for Protestants on one side and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodoxy on the other to settle the issue of Purgatory. While I believe in God, I'm agnostic to Christianity.
From the outside, debates like this seem to be impossible to settle satisfactorily because the two sides cannot agree on a common canon to interpret. In other words, the question looms whether a believer is to side with Luther + Calvin on the so called Deuterocanon's place in the bible, or the Roman and Eastern Church.
The very question of how the Bible should be compiled seems to be at stake.
Is purgatory the only difference you see? What about the worship of Mary, the apostles and angels?
Revelation 22:8-9 NKJV Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. [9] Then he said to me, "See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God."