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What is Purgatory?What is Purgatory?Purgatory (taught only by Catholics) is a place or condition where souls after death go to, for the needs of purification. Sinners are even subject to punishment for sins that might be or have been forgiven. The concept of Purgatory was not in the Catholic dogma until 1274 at the Council of Lyons. The concept is well known because it is often interchanged with the word hell, which is eternal damnation apart from Christ. In Matthew Henry's Unabridged Commentary section that talks of Isaiah 14:1-3, it talks of purgatory (hell) as a place that prisoners were brought for their earthly punishment. What does the concept of purgatory refer to? In actuality it refers to a time period between death and an eternal say in either heaven or hell. This is where things go wrong, the bible does not mention purgatory, the trinity and some other well thought of Christian subjects, but in the spots it does refer to was a time between normal healthy life and the actual death of a person when their body goes through the rigamortis stage. While the person is not communicating with anyone or anything here on earth, they are indeed alive. The term purgatory was used to describe this time period that a person goes through. In the past, when a person died, they (whoever was a caretaker of the body) would place the body in a casket but not do anything (i.e. cover it, bury it) for about a week. This was partially because of the fact that the medical knowledge at the time was not the greatest, and they wanted to make sure a person was truly dead before burying a person. (Hence the term burried-alive) |
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